Vachères

Vachères ( Vivaro-alpine Vachièras in and Of Provence of traditional Standard and Vachièro according to the Standard mistralienne) is a common French, located in the department of the Alp-of-High-Provence and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called Vacherois.

Geography

It is a perched village located in the Regional natural park of Luberon, between the Luberon and the Montagne of Lure. From its culminating point to 870 m the sight extends on nine departments, including the sites of the Pic Saint-Wolf in the west and of the Holy-Balsam in the south.

History

The site seems to have been since occupied of very old times, by the Ligures then by the Celtes.

Administration

Demography

The summer, the commune accommodates on average more than 800 residents.

Places and monuments

The common one counts four castles, two churches, several vaults of countryside, a priory, mills, calades (empierrées streets), remainders of ramparts, a gate of the 13th century and houses of time rebirth with mullioned windows.

Among the collections of the municipal museum created in 1958 and refitted in 1997:

a skeleton-fossil of Bachithérium, old man from 30 to 35 million years (tertiary, Oligocene, Stampien), found in 1981. It is the only complete skeleton of the Bachitherium kind known until our days, from where its importance, this mammal is the ancestor of the Gazelle S Indians and African current, to see site
the statue of a warrior celto-Ligurian of the army of the Auguste emperor. This statue, impressive by its size and the smoothness as of its chisellings was discovered in 1865 and it would seem that it was set up in a Mausolée which crowned the commune.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Alp-of-High-Provence

External bonds

Vachères on the site of the national geographical Institute
Vachères on the site of INSEE
Vachères on the site of Quid
Localization of Vachères on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vachères on Mapquest

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