Le Crès
Le Crès ( Occitan Lo CREC ) is a commune in the department of Hérault in the Languedoc- Roussillon region. Its inhabitants are called " Cressois ".
Geography
The community is located approximately six kilometers east of Montpellier, halfway between the Mediterranean and the foothills of the Cevennes. The environment consists of open, Mediterranean scrubland formations. The area is crossed by a river called Salaison, who gave his name to the northern part of the city, there is also a five -acre lake.
Transport links
The southern part of the town area is crossed by the road department 613, the northern part of the department of Road 65. The place is connected to Montpellier since 2006 by a tram ( line 2). Le Crès is also accessible via a ( Les Mazes -le- Crès ) and a bus station. Montpellier airport is just 20 minutes away by car.
History
The first traces of human life in the local area date back to the Neolithic period ( 3800 BC).
From anger over the loss of 80 horses, the castle of Le Crès by Admiral Gaspard de Coligny ( 1519-1572 ) was destroyed during the religious wars, and only a small street still remembers it.
During the Ancien Régime Le Crès formed a parish with Castelnau -le- Lez first as Castelnau- lès -Montpellier, then under Castelnau -Le Crès.
In the early nineteenth century, increasingly separated from Castelnau by garrigue, the village grew and soon had its own priest ( 1830), followed by, among others, a local school and a cemetery.
The residents called for in 1846 and 1849, the survey of the village as a separate parish, but this request was only on September 30, 1872 by decree of the President Adolphe Thiers in compliance, with the total area of the municipality is proportional to the proportion of the population of the original Castelnau -Le Crès was measured.
In the village today are 1 hotel ( another 14 in less than 7 km ), bistros, a large ceremonial hall ( Le grand Mélo ), schools, including a further, gymnasiums and three stages including a large arena.
Sights and festivities
- The parish church of Notre- Dame de Sablassou from the eleventh century
- The Via Domitia which to West through the town of East: On being reminded by two milestones that of Tiberius in the south facade of the Church and of Augustus in the center of the roundabout " Caius Domitius " at the Avenue du Mistral.
- A recreational lake with golf course in the area of a former quarry (since 1995)
- The local bull festival begins on the first Friday after the 15th of August. It mainly takes place in the three arenas, on the market square and the streets near the town hall. The Torridas the animals are not killed.
Local government
- Mayor: Pierre Bonnal (term expires 2014)
- Address: Mairie du Crès, Place de la Mairie - BP8, 34 920 Le Crès