Saint-Véran

Saint-Véran is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Alpes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

This village of Hautes-Alpes of 290 inhabitants is often defined like the highest commune of France. However, it is righter to say than it is the commune of which the inhabited part is highest of France. Indeed, among the communes recovering the entirety of the French territory, they are the communes of Chamonix-Mount-White and Saint-Gervais-the-Baths on which the top of the Mont Blanc is which is highest of Europe. The center of the village with church and town hall is to 2.042 m, its territory extends between 1.990 and 2.100 m from altitude. The territory of the commune, as for him, extends from 1756 to 3175 Mr.

The village is located in the middle of the Regional natural park of Queyras.

It is also a family Winter sports resort which can accommodate approximately 1.800 people.

One finds in the village a score of sundials mural which date from the Renaissance.

A astronomical Observatoire was created in 1974 and is, since 1990, placed at the disposal of the Astronome S amateurs.

Geography

History

Formerly, the village had an important artisanal activity: basket making, tools, agricultural cabinet work, frames… and, breeding (goats, cows…), wine and brandy. It had also an activity of salte quarry starting from the galleries dug in cliff.

The legend of Saint Véran tells that, bishop of Cavaillon, born in the Vaucluse at the 6th century, it wounded a dragon which devastated the area of Cavaillon and drove out it while ordering to him to go to die in the the Alps. This last, bleeding at the time of its retirement, dropped the blood drops; from where the presence in France of other named villages Saint-Vérand, in Vaucluse, the Isere and the the Rhone.

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Hautes-Alpes

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