Anduze

Anduze ( Occitan Andusa ) is a commune with 3262 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Gard in the Languedoc- Roussillon region; it belongs to the district Ales and Anduze Canton.

Geography

Anduze is situated on the southern edge of the Cevennes in the valley of the Gardon Gardon d' Anduze of here also is called.

The Anduze bordering municipalities are Boisset -et -Gaujac, Corbès, Anduze, Saint- Félix -de- Pallières, Thoiras and Tornac in the same department.

History

Built in the 10th century reign Anduze was one of the oldest and most powerful in the Languedoc. The Lords of Anduze were allied with the Counts of Toulouse and took part in the Albigensian Crusade. 1266 was the domination Anduze to the crown, but the place remained the seat of a bailiff.

Anduze is the cradle of sericulture in France, which was maintained here from the end of the 13th century. The place was by the regional center of the silk and wool trade.

In the 16th and 17th centuries Anduze was an important center of Protestantism in the Cevennes. The fortified town, which was inhabited by 6,000 people in 1570, became the headquarters of the Protestant forces in southern France. 1622 he has been the basis of the resistance of Rohan, but its city walls was then robbed by the grace Edict of Alès.

In the 19th century Anduze took the Industrial Revolution renewed economic upturn ( silkworm, hosier, hatter ), but came later - as the entire Cevennes - into a new recession.

Demographics

From 1962 only residents with a primary residence

Attractions

• The Tour de Pézène, part of the former Château de Pézène, residence of the Dukes of Beaufort in the 15th and 16th centuries; The tower dates from the 13th - 14th Century.
• The Château Neuf, a two-tower mansion of the 17th century, which was built in the Remparts into it.
• The barracks that were built in 1740 on the Plan de Brie to accommodate the royal troops - now the Mairie and the Office de Tourisme.
• The Church St Etienne; built from 1686 to 1688 after the previous building on the same site after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes had been destroyed in 1685. The bell tower dates back to 1588th
• The temple, one of the largest in France; it was built from 1820 to 1823 in the barracks yard.
• The Tour de l' Horloge in the year 1320 and the Meridian, since 1569 the city's clock; The tower consists of three floors in the same architecture as the Remparts of Aigues -Mortes; he and the clock remained in 1629 at the destruction of the city walls are spared; the Meridian was restored in 1989.
• The Place couverte from 1457, called " l' Orgerie " or " Marché aux Grains ," the former chestnut market and today's farmer's market.
• The Bambouseraie de Prafrance a unique exotic garden 2 km north of Anduze.
• A repeatedly circulating daily museum railway steam train of the Cevennes along the Gardontals to about 10 km as the crow away Saint -Jean -du- Gard.