Saint-Trinit

Saint- Trinit is a commune with 124 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Vaucluse and the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur.

Geography

Saint- Trinit located in the northeast of the department of Vaucluse, on the border of the Drôme and Alpes- de -Haute -Provence. Surrounding communities are Saint- Christol, Sault, Aurel (Vaucluse ), Ferrassières ( Drôme) and Revest -du- Bion (Alpes -de -Haute- Provence). Nearest large towns are apt in the south ( 26 km) and Carpentras in the west ( 34 km).

The municipality is located on the Plateau d' Albion in the vicinity of mountains Monts de Vaucluse at an altitude 780-914 meters. By Saint- Trinit the small mountain river Croc, which rises in the Montagne de Lure and ends at Sault in the Nesque flows. 13 km south is the Luberon Regional Nature Park.

Traffic

Across the municipality coming, the route Departmental D950 on an east-west axis of Sault towards Forcalquier.

In the neighboring village of Saint- Christol is a military airfield.

Demographics

Attractions

The former priory St- Trinit consists of a short nave, a choir bay and a five-sided apse, which is covered by a semi- dome. A triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir bay. At the church is probably not the one that is mentioned in the Bull of Pope Gelasius II from the year 1118, as some components such as the choir bay arose only in the middle of the twelfth century. The church was completed together with the nave until half a century later. 1652 the barrel vault was completely renewed.

The chapel, dedicated to the plague saints St. Roch was built in 1629-1630.