Sivergues

Sivergues is a commune with 45 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Vaucluse in Provence -Alpes- Côte d' Azur region.

Geography

Sivergues is located in the south of the department of Vaucluse, and is surrounded by the municipalities Buoux, Vaugines, cucuron, Auribeau and Saignon. Apt to the north is the closest major city with five kilometers away.

In the south of the municipality, the mountains of the Grand Luberon rises. The municipality is part of the Regional Natural Park of Luberon. The northwestern municipal boundary is formed by the 23 km long river Aigue Brun, which flows west of Cadenet in the Durance.

Traffic

The perched village Sivergues is accessible only from the north- east via the route Departmental D114.

History

Sivergues was a dependent of Saignon fief and became independent in the 14th century. After several major epidemics, the village 1501-1523 was repopulated, especially of eight Waldensian families who settled here. Since then, the history of settlement of Protestants and Catholics place has been influenced primarily religious.

Place name

The place name probably goes back to a Roman named Sivius, who owned a farm nearby. According to legend, the name of the place is of a monastery called Six - Vierge ( "Six virgins " ) can be derived, which was supposedly founded in the fifth century by the wife of St. Castor and six young girls.

Demographics

Attractions

The converted to an inn, Fort de l' Archidiacre located at the foot of a cliff overlooking the valley of the Aiguebrun's. It was fortified by Bertrand de Bot, an archdeacon of the Cathedral of Apt. Get a door are from the 13th century and the old vault.

The small church of St- Pierre -et -St- Marie was built in the 16th century and was intended for a small Catholic community: for the year 1683 two Catholic families are attested with 21 members.

The construction of the Protestant Church probably dates back to the mid-19th century. Prior to the Huguenots of the community met in the caves of the Luberon, approximately in the Bastide Perrons.

Half an hour's walk from the village there is a operating as a hostel farmstead named castellas. Here are the remains of the Romanesque Church of St. Trophimus find along with cemetery cimetière the name Vaudois ( " Waldensian Cemetery " ) bears.

Others

The community is primarily known through the novel L' Habitant de Sivergue by Henri Bosco.