Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron
Saint- Hippolyte- le- Graveyron is a commune with 161 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the Vaucluse department in the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur.
Geography
Saint- Hippolyte- le- Graveyron located at the foot of the dentelles de Montmirail and Mont Ventoux from the southwest, about eight kilometers north of the neighboring city of Carpentras. Other neighboring municipalities are Caromb in the east, Le Barroux and La Roque- Alric in the north, Beaumes -de -Venise in the west and Aubignan in the southwest.
Important collection with a height of 443 meters, the hill le Graveyron from urgonischen limestone type.
The village does not have a solid core, but is of the form of settlement establishes a scattered settlement.
History
The area between the Mont Ventoux and the fertile plain was in early times of important drift paths ( transhumance routes ) running through it, which were used by cattle in the summer. Under Roman settlement seems to have existed here an important sanctuary because they found three altars of a Gallo-Roman temple in the neighborhoods and Côtes Bariane. They were each the nymph Carinnæ, Sucellus, the Celtic god with mallet, and Mars Alba Rinus consecrated.
At the time of the Avignon popes in the first half of the 14th century Saint- Hippolyte- le- Graveyron was enfeoffed by Cardinal Hugues Roger. 1376 decided the Councils of Saint- Hippolyte and Barroux a land swap, to form two fiefs. The fief of Saint- Hippolyte fell in 1401 to the Baux family ( first to Alix des Baux, then handed down to Guillaume des Baux ). Étienne de Vesc, Lord of Caromb, acquired it in 1488 and added it under the name of Saint- Hippolyte- lès- Caromb the lands of Caromb added.
The community was formed with simultaneous removal of Caromb, on 12 October 1790. Her name was initially only Saint -Hippolyte. In 1918 they took the name of Saint- Hippolyte- le- Graveron, 1986 she received then finally its present name.
Population Development
Attractions
- Stone column with a wrought iron cross
- Juvenal castle from the 19th century
- Parish church, built in 1830 on a plot that was provided by the former mayor Hippolyte Fabre