Saint-P3eray wine

Saint-Péray in Occitan Sant Pèire of Have , is a common French, located in the department of the Ardèche and the area the Rhone-Alps. It belongs to the Agglomération of Valence.

Its inhabitants is called the Pérollaises Saint and the Pérollais Saint. This village is located at 5 km of Valence in the valley of the the Rhone.

Its market with the wines takes place each year, at the time of the first weekend of September.

Blasonnement: left, with the fascé first of gold and sinople which is of Crussol, with the second of azure with two keys of gold passed in saltire.
On recognizes with the first the weapons of the lords of Crussol. The keys are classically emblematic of holy Pierre (" Saint-Péray" comes from " Saint-Pierre-in Ay").

Geography

With the foot of the hill of Crussol, in edge of the valley of the Rhone, Saint-Péray is since always a crossing point between the mountain ardéchoise and the plain of Valence. The village is crossed by Mialan, an affluent of the Rhone.

Crussol it is a solid mass and a castle. The solid mass of the Mountain of Crussol consists of geological layers of sedimentary origin superimposed in a very regular way and which one describes as series. Of share its capacity to store heat, limestone allows the establishment of plant species and animal Mediterranean in spite of the rather high latitude. The vegetation is made up for half of dry lawn and another half of green oak grove, moors on marnes, cliffs, fall on limestone and even of pubescent oak grove in small proportion. It is a small mountain stretched on three kilometers of North in the South. It represents a rather regular watershed whose altitude passes gradually from 306 to 406 meters. In the East-West direction, it seems a dissymmetrical solid mass initially: towards the East, a high calcareous cliff, overhanging falls, dominates the area valentinoise, while towards the West, the slope drops less brutally until Mialan, tributary of the Rhone.

History

The current village made its appearance towards XVe century, when the inhabitants left the fortifications of the castle of Crussol to come to live in the valley of Mialan. This new village took the name of Saint-Pierre d' Ay who, in local patois, gave Saint-Péray. During the French revolution of 1789, Saint-Péray temporarily changed name to become Péray White Wine (with the undeniable reputation of the white Saint-P3eray wine wine at that time). Today the commune of Saint-P3eray wine counts approximately 7000 inhabitants.

Administration

Source: site of the city

Demography

Places and monuments

the Château of Crussol is built on a remarkable defensive site. It is a sentinel, drawn up on a rocky outcrop, dominating the Rhone-native plain, the fortress of Crussol controlled transportation a route, very attended, since highest antiquity.

See also: Contenu=Voir the article on the ruins of [[castle of Crussol]] the

the vegetation of Crussol consists of dry lawn, of green oak grove, moors on marnes, cliffs, fall on limestone and even of pubescent oak grove in small proportion. Many habitats represent an interest of which: in particular the sub-continental steppe meadows, which one also calls of the lawns with orchises, from which the majority are protected by the French law.

the fauna of Crussol is important. The majority of the species Mediterranean avifaunas go back to north until Crussol. From including seven birds protected and 19 other protected animals.

the Grottes of Let us be are accessible by a footpath which dominates the Vallée of the Rhone and the agglomeration from Valence with in backdrop the majestic buttresses of the Vercors.

Economy

Vineyard

The Saint-Péray is a white wine sparkling pertaining to the vintages with the Côtes of the Rhone, prepared according to the “Champagne method”. There also exists in the form of a dry white wine “quiet”.

Located on Right Bank on the Rhone, the side Ardeche, with the height of Valence. The vineyard of a.O.C. Saint-P3eray wine is more in the south of the septentrional Coasts of the Rhone. The surface of name is limited to the commune of Saint-P3eray wine as to the district of Biguet which is on the commune bordering " Toulaud". A.O.C. Saint-P3eray wine counts approximately 70 hectares today. The output is of 45hl/ha with a natural minimum degree of 10% for the quiet ones and 9% for the effervescent ones.

Source: site of a.O.C. Saint-P3eray wine

Events

Twinnings

Two cities are twinned with Saint Péray:

Located in the area of Hesse, to 45 km of Frankfurt, in edge of Odenwald, the town of Groß-Umstadt counts a population of 22.000 inhabitants. Born from the regrouping of 8 communes (Kleestadt, Klein-Umstadt, Richen, Semd, Raibach, Dorndiel, Heubach and Wiebelsbach), Groß-Umstadt offers a great quality of life.

ESA, small town of 3.150 inhabitants of the area of the Lakes, in the North of Italy is located in the area of Lombardy, with a score of kilometers of Like. The high wooded hills which surround the city, brood in the middle of the valley of Vallassina, make it resemble a village of mountain.

Saint Péray and the city of signed a pact of friendship in 1991, bringing together which is explained by the twinning which respectively binds the two cities to Groß-Umstadt.

Santo-Tirso is located in the North of Portugal, a few kilometres from Oporto and of the Atlantic coast, Santo-Tirso is a relatively important city since it counts approximately 17.000 inhabitants. It is in addition the place chief of a canton made up of 31 communes.

Site of the town of Santo Tirso

Each year is organized the festival of the wines and twinning: Celebrates wines and twinning.

Joint committee

See too

Common of Ardeche

References

the Ardèche guide - rebirth of the book - Turned (Belgium) - 2003

External bonds

Site of the Town hall of Saint Péray
Tourist bureau
Site of the STOCK of the Priory, municipal halls
College of Crussol
Site of the Holy AOC Péray
Site of the football club of Péray Saint & Guilherand
SPS Tennis shoe Club of Saint Péray
Holy Handisport Péray
Cyclo Club of Saint Péray
Company Zinzoline
Saint-P3eray wine on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-P3eray wine on the site of INSEE
Saint-P3eray wine on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-P3eray wine on a chart of France and communes bordering Saint-P3eray wine
Plane on Mapquest

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