Valence (Drme)

Panoramic view of Valencia on the right bank of the Rhone

Valencia
The kiosk Peynet on the Champ de Mars
Details
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhone-Alpes
Department	Drome ( prefecture )
Borough	Valencia ( prefecture )
Canton	Chief town of Lucerne: Valencia 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Common Code	26362
Postcode	26000
Mayor Current term	Alain Maurice 2008 - 2014
Intermunicipal	Valencia Agglo - Southern Rhone-Alpes
Website	Official site
Demography
Population	66 981 hab. ( 2009 )
Density	1 826 inhabitants / km 2
Urban area	167 155 inhab. ()
Demonym	Valence, Valence
Geography
Contact	44 56 '00 "North 4 53 '30 "East / 44.9333333333, 4.89166666667
Altitudes	Min. 106 m - max. 191 m
Area	36.69 km 2

Valencia (Valencia or-sur-Rhne) in Occitan ) is a town in southern France , prefecture of the department of Drome region of Rhone-Alpes. It is part of the network of cities and regions of art and history. Valencia is often referred to as "the door of the south of France. "

Its inhabitants are called Valentino and Valence ^{Heraldry and currency}

The arms of Valencia and emblazon "Gules a cross argent in the heart of a tower azure. " Currency: Unguibus and Rostro (For the beak and nails).

Geography

Situation

Aerial view of Valencia

Its location in the center of Valencia up the meridian axis of the valley of the Rhone , at the mouth of the valley of the Isere , gateway to the Alps. Located a few kilometers south ^of the 45th parallel, the city is often referred to as the gate of Southern France. "In Valencia the South starts" say the people of "North". The city is now established in four alluvial terraces which rise on the left bank of the Rhone :

• the lowest, which is closest to the river, where were the districts of fishermen and sailors;
• the intermediate terrace, protected from river floods, which developed the historic, first within its walls and outside;
• the third terrace highly urbanized in the second half of the ^twentieth century ;
• the highest, called plateau Lautagne which develops a cluster of technology businesses since the late ^twentieth century.

The city also gave its name to a well defined geographical region: the Valentino.

Common Boundary

		Bourg-les-Valence	Saint-Marcel-les-Valence
	Guilherand-Granges	N	Montlier , Chabeuil , Malissard
		O Valencia E
		S
	Let	Portes-les-Valence	Beaumont-les-Valence , Montlger

Climate and vegetation

Valencia enjoys a mild climate whose main characteristic is an almost constant wind that blows and dries e along the Rhone corridor. Called Mistral from the north when he brings good weather and cool in summer, but a feeling of bitter cold in winter. When it comes from the south, it usually announces the arrival of storm disruptions. He then called the south wind or wind of crazy because for some people it makes the air difficult to bear, especially in summer.

The climate is semi-continental with Mediterranean influences. The 1966-2004 annual average recorded by the meteorological station Gotheron (26320 Saint-Marcel-les-Valence, 6 km from Valencia) is 12.3 C for temperature and average of 886 mm precipitation. Average (period 1971-2004), 2129 annual hours of sunshine are recorded. The climate is generally very irregular from one year to another depending on the dominant influence (turn mediterranean and semi-continental). During the period 1994-2004, the years following stand out: lack of sunshine in 1996 (1712 m), precipitation deficits (572 mm) and high temperatures in 1997, high rainfall in 1999 (1049 mm) and 2002 (1257 mm), sunshine (2500 h) from 1999 to 2002, accompanied by above average temperatures, frost in April 2003 had affected the production of fishing, hot summer in 2003, with sunshine for the year (2781 h), the rainfall deficit in 2004 (722mm). The vegetation in the plain of Valencia Type mid-European (English oak, sessile oak in the coldest places, thickets of charms) mingled 'thermophilic species such as downy oak found in Provence in cool. It is also south of the Drme valley where the influence mditennenne finally wins (20 km further south) of spontaneous populations of thyme , lavender, euphorbia characias, Spanish broom ( Genista hispanica ) , giant reed (Arundo donax) and Aleppo pine ( Pinus halepensis ) on the west face of massive Crussol. Because of the exposure, and the soil, the hills offer Ardche landscape Mediterranean scrub and oak (Quercus ilex) from Tournon which is about 22 km north of Valencia (hills of Cornas , Castle Crussol and Be ). The hills (limestone mostly) have dual vegetation: Mediterranean south side and sub-continental North side.

Formerly, the cultivation of olive trees dating back to the heights of well-exposed Tain l'Hermitage (18 miles north), but they were replaced by the culture of the vine at first, then by that of apricot, peach and other fruit trees that are still present in the region.

History

Note: gentil corresponding to Valencia Valentino, but the " Valentino "also one of the ancient provinces of France with its capital and part of Valencia province of Dauphin.

Antiquity: the colony of Valentia

Valencia Valentia before: the pre-Roman times to Valentino

The city of Massilia , has long been on good terms with Rome, had asked him to help against the Salyens ravaging his country. The intervention of the Romans, from 125 BC. AD, assured her safety but the war went against the Savoyards , among whom were sheltering Salyens dynasties. In August 121 BC. AD Army Quintus Fabius Maximus crushes during Battle of the confluence (ie Rhone - Isre ) by Strabo (Geography, IV, 1, 11).

Orosius reports that Caius Marius , sent by Rome to stop the Cimbri and the Teutons , had established his camp near the confluence of the Rhone and Isere . The excavations on the upper plateau "Lautagne (Valencia) revealed the presence of defensive devices order dated ^first century BC. AD: and the founding of the city could come from a Roman military camp.

Even under Roman rule, the Savoyards , a tribe located north of the Isere, rebelled repeatedly against the Roman occupiers. The final confrontation takes place Solonion identifiable with the current Common Be (Solo by Livy, Epitome 103) in 62 BC.

The conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar made the Rhone corridor an axis of main north-south, connecting the new Roman possessions in the sea Mediterranean. Many colonies were founded there, which Valentia, Latin name meaning The Valiant, The Hale, in the territory of Segovellaunes.

Site selection

The city of Valentia was built on a terrace on the left bank of the Rhone , five kilometers south of the confluence of the Isere and fifteen miles from that of the Drme.

This location can be explained by the intersection of several lines of transportation and communications:

• Valentia had a special place in the north-south through the Rhone and the Via Agrippa.
• Valentia was part of the east-west axes, because the different paths that crossed the plain from the valley of the Isere and that of the Drme (lane Alps) converged on the city. The Rhone was crossed at Valencia on a ferry, ford or a bridge.

The ancient city

The city of Valencia, like many cities Gallo-Roman , was a plane orthogonal. The orientation of the urban road network was successively followed cadastres "A" and B identified in the plain of Valence.

We know the decumanus of the city thanks to the discovery of a floor and a sewer system to a few meters north of the town hall. The cardo urban network was the Via Agrippa , which crossed the city in a straight line from the south gate of the city to the old tower door and Aion, north of the city, which later became "Tourdon ( now destroyed).

It is along the Via Agrippa that was to locate the forum , probably surrounded by a civil basilica , the curia , a temple , etc.., which we know the location.

Between the street and the street Vernoux Theatre, were unearthed the ruins of the baths public. The water supply of the city of Valentia was done thanks to many sources close: the remains of the aqueduct that brought water to Valencia on the Source of the winch had been discovered.

Evocation of the southern gate of the city of Valentia in the Early Empire

All around the present cathedral were discovered architectural fragments belonging probably to a large temple.

The city owned facilities show:

• a circus whose district the place called Wax ("Siry" in the Middle Ages) have preserved the memory.
• an amphitheater probably along the Rhone river, outside the enclosure.
• a theater Coast St. Ursula: Three surveys have revealed the orchestra , traces of large steps and large wall units.
• an Odeon (?) whose curvature is materialized by Crescent Street.

The city was surrounded by a wall from the Roman Empire. This forum was set up between 15 BC. BC and 15 AD. AD A monumental gateway defended by two towers projecting was discovered south of the city.

Houses were installed around the city, outside the walls.

• east of the city of Valentia, near the path of the Alps (in the direction of Die and Gap ), current street Faventines.
• west, the district "gunners" on the town of Guilherand-Granges (right bank of the Rhone, facing Valencia): a bridge or a ferry linking the river banks.

The ancient port was located perhaps on the territory of the present town of Bourg-les-Valence.

Many graves were crowded out of the city, along the way: Several cemeteries have been discovered to the east and south of the ancient city.

The Late Antiquity

During the first centuries of our era, Valencia became an important crossroads on this map and directions, and the late Roman Empire , the city retained its privileged position.

But from the ^fourth century , Valentia had to face numerous raids but the city kept in the shelter of his shield, his monumental ornament rivals, according to Ammianus Marcellinus (Stories, XV, 11, 14), Arles and Vienna.

At the dawn of the ^fifth century , the city lived in the shelter of the wall built during the late Roman Empire (building still visible in the last century). The Visigoths captured Valencia in 413 AD. AD, the Burgundians were masters of the Rhone Basin at the end of the ^fifth century , the kingdom fell to the Valentino franc in 533. These invasions successive erased almost all traces of romanization.

During these troubled times, the city landscape at its best speaker Ancient : Roman doors were sealed, thereby removing the two main axes of the city and the restructuring sustainable urban network. Rural inhabitants settled on the small amount of the plain, giving rise to many villages Montoison , Montmeyran , Montlier , Montvendre , Montlger , etc..

Middle Ages

The cathedral of Saint-Apollinaire de Valence , to the place des Ormeaux

The city, sheltered from the floods of the river and protected by its walls is a step along the pilgrimage route to Compostela. Religious life comes alive, the Cathedral of St Apollinaire is built and the Abbey of the Canons of St. Ruf. Two important characters are vying for power over the city: the bishop and the County of Valence.

The Rhone is sometimes described as the border between the kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire which is in Valencia, until the ^fifteenth century , but it is mostly a hyphen between the countries that border it. The diocese of Valencia , as the principality rival Valentino County-Diois also extend on both sides. It is also an important trade route, particularly for salt, which will benefit the city that keeps track as the street name "Saunire," formerly the name of one of the four gates of Valencia, which gave the South.

The economic boom is reflected in the development towns, especially on the side of the Rhone River (Riperia) said today, less poetically, "Lower Town" New Town, north of the old door Pompei; and Bourg-Saint-Pierre, formed around the abbey of Saint-Pierre, who has led the town's current Bourg-les-Valence. Elsewhere on the middle terrace, habitat Outside the walls is associated with religious foundations: the commander's Hospital, Tourdon door, the Abbey of Saint-Felix, Porte Saint-Sulpice, the Templar Commandery Faventines to the Benedictine priory Saint-Victor in the South near the ancient Via Agrippa , and perhaps even further south, a leper whose memory is transmitted through the channel of "Maladire.

After the disappearance County Valentino , incorporated into the Dauphin , the dauphin Louis II may impose a tribute to the bishop and abbot of Saint-Ruf (Abbot exemptions and immunities): Valencia is incorporated in the Dauphin.

The second half of XV ^century and the beginning of the ^sixteenth century is a golden age for the medieval city, embodied by the house heads and pendant. Founded on 26 July 1452 by the Dauphin Louis, the future Louis XI , University of Valencia has developed rapidly. Renowned professors from various countries, as Jacques Cujas forged his reputation by teaching law, theology, medicine and the arts.

The Dauphin Louis made numerous trips to Valencia, as a sign of allegiance, he donated a city gate, the door Saunire and some surrounding houses. It is a palace Dauphin subsequently held by the religious order of Recollect.

That era ended abruptly when the city was occupied by troops of Baron Adrets: All religious buildings in Valencia are partially or completely destroyed.

Modern Era

Francois Rabelais studied there in 1532.

Charles IX happening in the city during his royal tour of France ( 1564 - 1566 ), together with the Court and the Department of the kingdom: his brother, the Duke of Anjou , Henry of Navarre , the cardinals of Bourbon and Lorraine .

The university will disappear in 1792 only to be reborn in the late ^twentieth century.

XX ^century

After the Armenian genocide between 1918 and 1921 , many Armenians took refuge in France. Valencia hosted a number. Today, 10% of the original Valentino are Armenian , which makes the Armenian community of Valencia, one of the largest in France.

During the Second World War , Valencia suffered several air raids allies intended to destroy the bridge over the Rhone.
On 15 August 1944 , bombs destroyed several buildings and neighborhoods of the city, killing 280 victims. Prefecture of the time, there remain only the gate, carefully preserved since then. Four days later, on 19 August 1944 , a German train in charge of nitroglycerine explodes, destroying much of the district of La Palla and making 335 victims among civilians, soldiers and resistance fighters.

The northern part of Valencia, and virtually razed, was rebuilt and today there are many administrative buildings such as the prefecture , the general treasury , the social security , postal and police station.

Economy

Valencia is home to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Drme who manages the marina of the hawkweed and the airport of Valencia - Chabeuil.

According to the INSEE in 2005, the percentage distribution of the active population by sector of activity was:

• Agri-Food ( fruits , vegetables , wine );
• Metallurgy;
• Mechanical Engineering;
• Electronics / Electronic Banking / Automation.

Transport and Communications

The city occupies a key position in the center of the Rhone Valley. Situated on a crossroads of road networks, it is particularly known for being a crossing point (See The Area Highway Valencia) vacationers who head Cote d'Azur.

The railway station of Valencia City , rue Denis Papin.

A bus from the VATS

The Highway of the Sun connects to Lyon (100 km north), Avignon (110 km south), then to Marseille (212 km south).
The A49 motorway connects to Grenoble (90 km north-east).
By cons, relations with the towns of the Massif Central are more difficult: the roads are very twisty.

In Valencia, the A7 motorway runs along the Rhone and therefore passes through the city by the river cutting. A proposed highway bypass of the city is under consideration.

The other main transport-related infrastructure are:

• Throughout the city , a bus service called VATS (Transport Company of the Community Valence) controlled by the Urban Community of Valencia Agglo - Southern Rhone-Alpes (Valencia Major), whose operation is entrusted to VTV ( Veolia Transportation Valencia) since July 2006. Since ¹January 2007 , a new network plan is in operation, with the slogan "Let's change of era."
• Since March 28, 2010, the city has a system Vlocation called Liblo and managed by Citbus (subsidiary of Transdev ), self-service and leasing. It consists of 160 bikes on the concept Smoove key in 18 then 20 stations and 200 bikes on leasing Valencia Guilherand-Granges and Bourg-les-Valence
• the station of Valencia City , whose role was refocused on regional transport since the commissioning of the TGV ;
• the Valence TGV station on the line TGV Mediterranean , situated 10 km from downtown.
• the marina's Hawkweed comprising 460 berths, ^1, river port in France.
• the airport of Valencia - Chabeuil , located in the town of Chabeuil , who does not receive regular line since the decision of the Valencia-Paris.

Bridges in Valencia

During antiquity, the existence of a bridge ensuring, as Vienna , the connection between the two sides, is likely. Indeed, since 1388 , the name "Bridge Peri" is carried by a district in Lower Town lying in the extension of the east-west from the ancient city. In addition, A. White would have discovered, still in the same extension, piles of oak, closer perhaps to a pier, and he also mentions the "Constance Tower", on the shore Valence, construction already known in the Middle Ages and which bore all Rhone floods. Nevertheless, the existence of a link between the two sides is not in doubt and a crossing point would have existed even at the height of the site of Valencia from the protohistoric. Whether he existed or not, this bridge antique was not replaced before the ^nineteenth century.

The various successive bridges of Valencia, in chronological order, are:

• Gateway Seguin built from 1827 (two years after that of Tain - Tournon , who was the first bridge of this type installed in France) and delivered to traffic in 1830 ;
• Stone Bridge, built in 1905 , destroyed 19 June 1940 by the French engineering to slow the advancing German troops. By August 1940, the Rhone is again passable by boat and then by a cable ferry. A temporary bridge was then installed by Pigeaud Engineering. This bridge was damaged again 18 August 1944 during an Allied bombing;
• installed a temporary bridge suspended in 1949 and will run until 1967;
• Bridge Frederic Mistral , completed in 1967 , is still in service;
• Bridge of lnes inaugurated on 18 December 2004 , located in the south of the city, finally, the "Second Bridge" in Valence, long expected to alleviate traffic problems between the two banks of the Rhone.

During long periods where no bridge was available, a cable ferry allowed to cross the Rhone. On the right bank, Guilherand-Granges , an old battery used by the ferry is still erect.

Education

View of the west facade of the Catholic Private School Montplaisir.

• 10 colleges (Paul Valery; Camille Vernet, Anne ...), four grammar schools (Camille Vernet Gastronomy
  • the Swiss specialty Valentino, is a shortbread cookie in the shape of man, with ground almonds and orange peel. The name, form and decoration of this cookie are inspired uniform of the Swiss Guards of the Pope Pius VI died in Valencia;
  • fruit: peaches , apricots , kiwi ;
  • the pill of Valencia;
  • Chef Anne-Sophie Pic (three Michelin stars) exercise in Valencia;
  • Poinot Baptiste, head of Flavours (one Michelin star);
  • Masashi Ijishi, head of The Stash (one Michelin star).

  Administration

  

  

  City Hall

  The city of Valencia is a local government administered by a council is the deliberative assembly of the joint. The council elects the mayor. As with any town whose population is between 60 000 and 79 999 inhabitants, the council has 49 members (the mayor, 14 deputies and 22 Councillors) elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of six years.

  The current council was elected in March 2008.

  Its mission is to regulate its proceedings by the affairs of the municipality. The mayor of Valencia City employs 1,600 staff (permanent and non permanent) representing over 100 businesses and exercising all a public service remit.

  The current mayor of Valencia is Alain Maurice , member of the Socialist Party elected in 2008.

  List of successive mayors

  List of successive mayors

  Period		Identity	Label	Quality
  1795 to 1801	Jean Pierre Bachasson, Earl of Montalivet
  28 juin 1815 au 26 juillet 1815	Jean-Pierre Bleizac
  27 July 1815 to 16 October 1816	Frederic Francois de Plan, Marquis de Sieyes Veynes
  17 October 1816 to 9 July 1817	Jean-Pierre Bleizac
  10 July 1817 to 10 September 1830	Venance Sylvain Forcheron
  11 September 1830 to July 7, 1843	Nicolas Delacroix
  8 July 1843 to 13 September 1843	Calixte Bonnet
  14 September 1843 to 11 November 1846	Eugene Alexander Ithier
  12 November 1846 to January 9, 1849	Joseph Anthony Ferlay
  23 September 1894 to May 9, 1896	Jean-Franois Malizard
  10 May 1896 to October 9, 1919	Henry Chalamet
  10 October 1919 to 22 October 1928	Henry Partridge	Radical-Socialist
  23 October 1928 to February 2, 1934	Jules Algoud
  3 February 1934 to 30 August 1944	Rene Pcherot
  31 August 1944 to 25 October 1947	Jean Buclon
  26 October 1947 to 24 September 1957	Camille Vernet	Radical-Socialist
  25 September 1957 to 26 March 1971	John Partridge	Radical-Socialist
  27 March 1971 to 17 March 1977	Roger Dumas Ribadeau	RPR
  18 March 1977 to 18 June 1995	Rodolfo Pesce	PS
  19 June 1995 to 7 April 2004	Patrick Labaune	UMP
  8 April 2004 to 21 March 2008	Lna Balsan	UMP
  since 22 March 2008	Alain Maurice	PS
  All data are not yet known.

  Townships

  The city of Valencia is the capital of four townships:

  The townships of Valencia
  Canton of Valence-1	Canton of Valence-2
  Township Valencia-3	Canton of Valence-4
  Other Cantons of Drme

  
  

  Demographics

  According to the census conducted by INSEE in 2007, the municipality of Valencia had 65 263 inhabitants. Its urban area has 167,155 inhabitants spread across 40 municipalities that compose it.

  Demographic Trends
  (Source: Cassini ^{City of Garrison}

  • Since installation in 1773 of an artillery regiment, the Regiment La Fere , Valencia was the scene of many military units cantonment.
  • The ^75th Infantry Regiment occupied the barracks long Bacquet
  • From 1852 to 1875 , an artillery school , established by Napoleon under the Consulate and abolished in 1828 , is restored.
  • The ^e Field Artillery Regiment , 1 906 - one thousand nine hundred and fourteen , was stationed at the barracks Chareton which was destroyed during the Second World War.
  • In 1948 the 404 ^th Regiment of Artillery anti-aircraft moved to the neighborhood of La Tour-Maubourg, then in 1951 the ^477th Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group at the barracks Bacquet. In 1955, the ^477th is attached GAAL at 404 ^th CEOS which will sunset in 1964.
  • 10 ^{and 12} batteries of 155, ^2nd Field Artillery Regiment , 1914
  • 184 ^th Heavy Artillery Regiment Trailed , 1939 - 1940
  • In 1879 , the ^5th Regiment of Chasseurs a Cheval moved into the newly constructed barracks, avenue de Romans.
  • ^1st Regiment of Hussars , 1906
  • ^504th Tank Regiment of Combat , 1939 - 1940 :
    • 10 ^th Tank Battalion Combat
    • 11 ^th Tank Battalion Combat
    • 12 ^th Tank Battalion Combat
    • Colonial Tank Battalion Combat

  Since 1984 , the ^1st Regiment of Spahis is installed in the barracks area Bacquet.

  Monuments and Sights

  In town

  Heads House, detail of facade

  A "side" of Valencia, on leaving the place of Pierre

  Monumental Fountain

  • the heads of the house , built between 1528 and 1532 by Antoine de Dorne , Consul of Valencia, University professor, whose facade Renaissance has several sculpted heads representing the winds of fortune and time.
  • the pendant , inspired building renaissance , which is probably the tomb of Nicolas Mistral, canon of the cathedral of Saint-Apollinaire, seems built in 1548 , according to a stone engraved with an inscription to that effect. This monument was transformed, after the Revolution , in the pub. It was bought by the city of Valencia to 1830 and is among the first monuments listed in the national inventory of historic buildings , after a visit by Prosper Merimee in the Drme.
  • the bandstand built in 1860 which was the model designer Peynet to immortalize his love, and bears the name since Peynet booth.
  • Home of Pra mansion XV ^century , owned by Claude Frre, a rich merchant who was first president of the parliament of Grenoble.
  • The Draper House , XIII ^century , restored in the ^nineteenth century.
  • the Church of St. John the Baptist ( ^eleventh century and ^twelfth century ) and its gatehouse neo-Romanesque ^nineteenth century.
  • the covered market.
  • the Italian theater dating from 1837 , recently renovated.
  • the former prefecture, near the Place Saint-Jean, where he remains only the monumental gateway. The rest was destroyed during a bombing during the Second World War on August 15 1944. She occupied this place since the late ^eighteenth century. Previously, was the abbot's palace of Saint-Ruf.
  • the temple of the Abbey of Saint-Ruf , former priory chapel of a novel.
  • Instead of clerics, lined with colorful facades. It is from the ^fifth century , when the episcopal district was created, the place of the clerks began to grow in importance. Moved from shops, markets were held there and did justice. It was in the medieval two churches: the cathedral from the XI ^century and Notre-Dame de la Ronde, which was older (he is currently a column in public toilets). The wars of religion deteriorated considerably in buildings.
  • the "coasts", mounted to the picturesque upper town. There are traces of past speakers at the top of St. Ursula coast and down the coast Sylvie; they served to protect the city from invasions, epidemics or floods from the Rhne floods. They were widely used in medieval times by the people (boatmen, carters, mule ...) which borrowed these stairs to go to small streets and squares of the upper town. Coast St. Ursula in turn was less traveled and it separated the properties of two monasteries. It is established at the site of the Roman theater and was probably out. It may also include ribs Saint Martin, Saint-Esteve, the Hatters and the Arch.
  • Champ de Mars, wide tree-lined esplanade, renovated in 2001 , where the eye can see beyond the Rhone to the castle Crussol at the forefront of the Ardche mountains.
  • the Cathedral of St Apollinaire in Romanesque style , which was built in XI ^century.
  • the Dupre Hotel Tower dating from the sixteenth century , with a remarkable staircase turret.
  • Train Station Valencia City, conducted in 1866 by architect Jules Bouchut , whose facade was inspired by the Grand Trianon at Versailles.
  • the water tower Philolaus (first studies of the sculptor in 1963 ), built between 1969 and 1971 is located at Parc Jean-Partridge , between the districts of Planning and Fontbarlettes in north-east of the city. It consists of two twisted towers sleek high of 52 and 57 meters that combine functionality and artistic research. In 1981 , he received the "Prix du district de l'Horloge" honoring the best of urban artwork 1970s.
  • the park Jouvet , 7-hectare garden was established in 1905 and inaugurated by President Emile Loubet named Theodore Jouvet, donor of the land, and features over 700 trees of various species.
  • City Hall, opened in 1894 with a classical facade, decorated with a belfry and a roof with colored tiles.
  • Museum of Fine Arts established in 1850 and located in the former diocese since 1911 , which houses hundreds of drawings of Hubert Robert that much blood.
  • home called Moorish Moorish Ferlin, named after its owner, built in 1858 and oriental.
  • a network of 40 km of canals of which 8 km accessible to walkers.
  • Armenian Heritage Centre in Valencia.
  • boulevards, wide promenade, plotted on the former site of the ramparts and buildings lined style Hausmann , whose renovation was carried out from 2004 to 2009.
  • the monumental fountain, designed by architect Eugene Poitoux dating from 1887 , located on the boulevards. A few decades ago, in 1848 was erected at the site of the proposed fountain statue of liberty breaking his chains. It will be destroyed three years later under the Second Empire. The fountain was surmounted by a winged genius standing on a ball and holding a torch in one hand and the other a mirror. This statue was destroyed in 1954 , lightning having hit the column. In 2005, the fountain was renovated and moved a few meters, to better integrate the perspective of the boulevards and renovated in 2006, a copy of the engineering wing was replaced at the top of the column.

  Channels

  Heritage unique in France today places for walking and for some (farmed trout), the channels of Valencia with the city since the Roman era. It is in the Eastern suburbs of Valencia, at the foot of a riser, the patio of the seminar, the channels (17 kilometers and 40 kilometers by counting the secondary irrigation canals), have their source. Very quickly, Valentino will seek to harness the waters forming unhealthy swamps. In the ^thirteenth century , the regulation and use of the channels are privileged monasteries of Saint-Victor and Saint-Ruf, who decided the location of windmills.

  In fact, water used for irrigation, drinking water and washing, is also a valuable energy source for the economic development of the time. The main (Haran, Tuna, Mills and Malcontents) cross the city from east to west before joining to form the channel of the Hawkweed that flows into the Rhone. In the nineteenth ^century , the channels will lose their importance and even a little forgotten, hidden by the city and roads.

  The municipality has undertaken work for several years of development paths, lined with poplars and willows, along the canals. Green routes were marked out along the canals of Malcontents, Great Marquise of Thibert's Charran or California. Channels which continue to water the gardens.

  Parks and green spaces

  Staircase of Jouvet park side Martius

  p> The public parks of Valencia totaling 230 hectares (over 10% of the area of the town). The main ones are:

  • the Champ de Mars
  • the park Jouvet
  • the Parc Jean-Partridge
  • Park Trinitarian
  • Park Benjamin Delessert
  • Park Polygon
  • Marcel-Paul Park
  • Park St. Ruf
  • Park Recreational Hawkweed
  • Park Itchevan
  • Park Chteauvert

  Sports

  • Athletics : French Christophe Lemaitre was the first white go below 10 seconds in the 100 meters at the stage Georges Pompidou;
  • Judo : The club Valencia CSF Judo was created in 1950. The club now has 164 licensees, including 17 black belts. Three state-certified teachers and two volunteer teachers frame the course of the young to old.
  • American football : the Sharks Valencia , created in 2002, evolving into the third division.
  • Football : The Sports Association of Armenian Origin of Valencia , went into liquidation in August 2005 , is superseded by AS Valencia evolving in CFA 2.
  • Handball : Team HBV is evolving in the Championship of France's handball National 1. In 2009, Valencia reached the second division, but has downgraded the following season in N1.
  • Ice Hockey : The Lynx Valencia move in the Championship of France D1 hockey.
  • Rugby Union : the Valencia Sport , established in 1905 , operates in France championship, Division 2 Federal
  • Cycling : Valencia was arrival city of the ^11th stage of Tour de France 1996 with the victory of the Colombian Jose Jaime Gonzalez.
  • Triathlon : Triathlon on Valencia has a boys team and girls team playing in second division French.
  • The Stade Georges Pompidou is the main stadium of Valencia with a capacity of 12,500 seats. It is also the stadium where the athletics competitions held.
  • The Squash Club of Valencia has a team playing in the championship of France with a national standard bearer for Gregoire Marche Junior European Champion and World No. 79.

  Famous people connected with the city

  • St. Felix , a priest sent by preaching the holy Bishop Irenaeus of Lyon , with Fortunatus and Achilleus, is considered the founder of the first church in Valencia, the ^second century. A primary school in the city center bears his name. St. Felix and his two companions were martyred in 212.

  Statue Championnet on the Champ de Mars.

  Rugby player Sebastien Chabal.

  • Jean-Etienne Vachier said Championnet ( 1762 - 1.8 thousand ), General of the Empire is born Alixan on 13 April 1762. His statue by Victor Sappey , inaugurated in September 1848 , stands on the Champ de Mars. She was descended from its pedestal on 5 April 1944 to be buried in the courtyard of the museum until the end of the war, to avoid the requisition of the metal by the occupying Germans.
  • mile Augier , pote et dramaturge, n le 17 septembre 1820 Valence et mort le 25 octobre 1889 Croissy-sur-Seine.
  • Louis Gallet , poet, novelist and librettist , born in Valencia on 14 February 1835 and died on 16 October 1898 in Paris.
  • Mary Aymar said Teyssonier, better known under the name Mary of Valencia , born in 1576 and died in 1648 , is a character mystic , now almost forgotten, but whose fame at that time until the court reaches King Louis XIII, who visited him in person.
  • Jacques Cujas , professor at the University of Valencia from 1557 to 1559 and from 2567 to 1775, contributed to the reputation of this university.
  • Louis Mandrin , famous smuggler, dubbed the "bandit with a big heart," condemned to death, was broken on the wheel, instead of the Clerics, the 26 May 1755 before thousands of spectators.
  • Balthazar Baro , writer , born in 1596 in Valencia, who died in 1650 in Paris. It is the first Valentino elected to the French Academy in May 1636.
  • Jean-Robert (fantastic painter) born in 1921 to house a permanent exhibition of Pra (Valencia)
  • Camille Alexander Taponier , major general, was born in 1749 in Valencia, who died in 1831 in Paris. It was shown in 1789 , then sergeant, taking the lead in the assault at the storming of the Bastille.
  • Jean-Pierre Baron Arbot ( 8 February 1767 - Valencia ( Dauphine ) 13 April 1813 - Combat Castalla ) Military French of ^eighteenth and ^nineteenth centuries.
  • The Pope Pius VI , died on 29 August 1799 in Valencia, at the age of 81 years.
  • Simon-Antoine Sucy chief officer of the army of Italy , born in Valencia on 19 June 1764 , died at Augusta ( Sicily ) in 1799.
  • Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Earl of Montalivet ( 1,766 - in 1823 ), a peer of France and statesman, Minister of Interior of Napoleon. His statue stands on the site Montalivet. He was elected mayor in 1795.
  • His son, Camille Bachasson, Earl of Montalivet ( 1801 - one thousand eight hundred eighty ), Peer of France and statesman, Minister of Interior of Louis-Philippe Ier. The avenue Camille Montalivet was named in his honor.
  • Jean Joseph Frdric Farre Albert , General and War Minister, born on 5 May 1816 and died in Valencia on 24 March 1887 in Paris.
  • Cornelius Trumelet , military writer, born in Reims in 1817 and died in Valencia in 1892.
  • Desired Bancel , lawyer and MP, born in 1822 in Lamastre and died on 23 January 1871 at Lamastre.
  • The poet Louis Le Cardonnel , born in Valencia on 22 February 1862 and died in Avignon on 28 May 1936.
  • Louis Ageron , French painter and watercolorist, born 1865 and died in Valencia in 1935 in Valencia.
  • Edmond Ponsoye , Protestant theologian, born in 1880 in Valencia and died in 1954 at Crest. Pastor, historian of Protestantism, the son of Isidore Ponsoye, wine merchant in Valencia and Mary Dorsival.
  • The sculptor Gaston Dintrat born in Valencia in 1889 , and died in 1964.
  • Rene Higonnet , born in Valencia in 1902, died in Switzerland in 1983, with inventor Louis Moyroud of Lumitype first imagesetter.
  • Chapelan Maurice ( 1906 - one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two ), journalist, essayist and screenwriter French, was born in Valencia.
  • Paul-Jacques Bonzon , writer, born on 31 August 1908 at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont , who died on September 24 1978 at Valencia.
  • Paul Ricoeur , philosopher , born on February 27 1913 at Valencia and died on 20 May 2005 at Chatenay-Malabry.
  • Catherine Langeais , French television presenter, born 9 August 1923 in Valencia, died on 23 April 1998.
  • Jacques Tardi , illustrator of comics , born August 30 1946 at Valencia.
  • Alain Robert , urban climber, sometimes nicknamed Spider-Man , born in Digoin in Saone-et-Loire on 7 April 1962 , grew up in Valencia.
  • Anne-Sophie Pic , (born in 1969 in Valencia), master chef three Michelin stars since 2007 the "Maison Pic" in Valencia, three times 3 star Andre Pic from 1934 and Jacques Peak since 1973.
  • Sbastien Chabal , rugby international French , born 8 December 1977 in Valencia.
  • Bertrand Gille , International of French handball , pivot HSV Hamburg , born in Valencia on 24 March 1978.
  • Guillaume Gille , elder brother of the above, International of French handball , center-half of HSV Hamburg , born in Valencia on 12 July 1976.
  • Art-Gael was born in 1974 , actor, artistic director of the Dcatalogue Coy.
  • Jules Nadi (1872-1928), politician.
  • Dionysus , a group of rock formed in Valencia in 1993.
  • Jacques-Remy Girerd , born in 1952 , writer, filmmaker, founder of Folimage (1981), President of the Court Images, president of the Powder, Knight of Arts and Letters, a knight in the Order of Merit.
  • The Abbe Pierre was ordained deacon Saturday, 18 December 1937 , by ^Bishop Peak, Bishop of Valencia in the chapel of the Grand Seminary, 75 rue Montplaisir, which now houses the private Catholic school Montplaisir.
  • Andre Deluol born in Valencia on 27 August 1909.
  • David Attoub , born in Valencia on 7 June 1981 , rugby player currently playing French stage ,

  Image Gallery

  The water tower Philolaus at Parc Jean-Partridge.

The Kiosk Peynet on the field-of-March.

The Pendant and the steeple of the Cathedral of St Apollinaire.

The port of hawkweed.

  Around Valencia

  • The ruins of Castle Crussol.
  • The archaeological site and park miniature miniature Ardeche to Be.
  • The Tower of Crest.
  • The Ideal Palace of Postman Cheval of Hauterives
  • The Garden of birds of Upie.
  • The railway Vivarais.
  • The zoo of La Ferme aux Crocodiles in Pierrelatte
  • The Regional Natural Park of Vercors.

  Twinnings

  • Asti ( Italy ) since 1966
  • Biberach an der Riss ( Germany ) since 1967
  • Clacton-on-Sea ( United Kingdom ) since 1969
  • Ijevan ( Armenia ) since 1996
  • Guedira ( Israel ) since 1997
  • Batroun ( Lebanon ) since 2005

  References

  Notes

  1. centuriation "Valencia" inclined to N-12 30'E
  2. centuriation "Valencia B" inclined to N-23 E

  References Internet

  1. name of the inhabitants of French municipalities on Habitants.fr
  2. Villages of Commons today to Cassini on cassini.ehess.fr. Accessed 22 October 2010

  Other references

  1. http://orgprints.org/7699/1/AB_INRA_Gotheron_2006.pdf
  2. Orosius, Histories, V, 16, 9-10
  3. Pierre Miquel , The Wars of Religion, Club France Loisirs, 1980 ( ISBN 2-7242-0785-8 ), p. 254

  See also

  Internal Links

  • List of communes in the Drme
  • List of the prefectures of France
  • Urban area of Valencia

  External Links

  • Official site

  Bibliography

  • Andrew White, Valencia, Editions SAEP, Colmar-Ingersheim, 1973.
  • Andrew White, Valencia through men SOREP Publishing, Valencia, 1975.
  • Robert Bornecque, History of Valencia and its region: Die - Crest, Editions Horvath, Roanne.
  • Philippe Ravit, Valence The landscape of the founding of the colony of Valentia (Valencia) ⁱⁿ the third century AD. AD, Lyon 3, 2007, 202 p. philippe.ravit (memory)
  • Collective, Valencia, City of Valencia Tourism Office, 1991, 334 p.
  • Bernard-Marie Despesse Le Parc Jouvet in the heart of Valencia, Valencia, Memory of the Drme, 2004, 216
  • Collective, Valencia, faces a city AltaLIS editions, 2009, 124 p
  • Bernard-Marie Despesse Le Champ de Mars terrace of Valencia, Valencia, Memory of the Drme, 2010, 224 p

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