Saumane-of-Vaucluse

Saumane-of-Vaucluse is a common French, located in the department of Vaucluse and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Geography

Perched village of Vaucluse, to 4 km of Fountain-of-Vaucluse, to 5 km of It Isle-on-the-Sorgue, close to the mounts of Vaucluse.

History

Name in XIe century: Somanna (it was a castrum surrounded by strong walls). Seigniory of the Sade until the French Revolution.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

- Imposing castle (IMH) with the pace of bastionnée fortress crowning the village: base of XIIe century, rebuilt in XIVe century, additions and restorations until the XVIIe century, vandalized and restored; 2 grosses towers bored of loopholes frame the entry, southern main door with moucharabieh and ogival consoles, keep which made office formerly mill with oil and of furnace; loopholes with guns bored in mobile cylinders articulated in the walls; casemate, ditch cut in the rock, machicolation, tunnels with oubliettes, arched rooms, with boxes, staircases Rebirth and trompe-l'oeil paintings; park from where one has a superb panorama on the valley of Calavon and the mountain of Luberon. This beautiful castle belonged to the uncle (abbot of Sade and historiographer of Pétrarque) of the Marquis of Sade, itself remained there between its 5 years and its 10 years. - Saint-Trophime Romance Church of XIIe century, altered at various times (its Romance wall-belfry shelters a bell going back to 1400). - Valescure (in the east): swallow-hole, cave, firm - Country Museum in Crémade (3,5 km in north)

Personalities related to the commune

Sade

See too

Common of Vaucluse

External bonds

Saumane-of-Vaucluse on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Saumane-of-Vaucluse on the site of INSEE
Saumane-of-Vaucluse on the site of Quid
Localization of Saumane-of-Vaucluse on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saumane-of-Vaucluse on Mapquest

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