L' abbaye Sainte-Marie de Pierredon est une ancienne abbaye chalaisienne, fille de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Boscodon, fondée en 1205.
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The Alpilles is a small range of low mountains in Provence, southern France, located about 20 km south of Avignon.
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Mont Gaussier is a mountain of the Alpilles, located in the southern part of the commune of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It is a place of passage for many hikers who cross it via the GR6, Mont Gaussier was very early used as a habitat by protohistoric populations, before seeing a medieval castle at its summit, which has now disappeared.
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Glanum was an ancient and wealthy city which still enjoys a magnificent setting below a gorge on the flanks of the Alpilles mountains. It is located about one kilometre south of the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Originally a Celto-Ligurian oppidum, it expanded under Greek influence before becoming a Roman city. As it was never built over by settlements after the Roman period but was partly buried by deposits washed from the hills above, much of it was preserved. Many of the impressive buildings have been excavated and can be visited today.
It is particularly known for two well-preserved Roman monuments of the 1st century BC, known as "Les Antiques", a mausoleum and a triumphal arch.
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The Glanum Dam, also known as the Vallon de Baume dam, was a Roman arch dam built to supply water to the Roman town of Glanum, the remains of which stand outside the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Southern France. It was situated south of Glanum, in a gorge that cut into the hills of the Alpilles in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. Dating to the 1st century BC, it was the earliest known dam of its kind. The remains of the dam were destroyed during the construction of a modern replacement in 1891, which now facilitates the supply of water to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France.
The remains of the Roman dam at Glanum were discovered in 1763 by Esprit Calvet. A recent study shows that the dam originally was composed of two curved parallel masonry walls, each around 1 metre thick and separated by a gap around 1.5 metres wide which was likely filled with earth and rubble. The cut stone blocks were held together by crampons and finished with Cordon joints designed to protect against water entry. At each end of the dam there was an abutment cut into the rock of the gorge. Overall the dam stood 6 metres high with a thickness of 3.5 metres.
Its dimensions and location in a steep-sided gorge point towards it being a true arch dam. The dam collected water that was fed into an aqueduct that in turn supplied the Roman town of Glanum.
A modern arched dam was constructed on the same site in 1891, destroying the remains of the Roman dam. The dam's reservoir is called in French the Lac de Peirou and is accessible via the Chemin du Barrage.
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The Monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole is a former Roman Catholic 10th-century Benedictine priory, then an 11th-century Augustinian monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France. It was later administered by the Order of Saint Francis in 1605.
Several rooms of the building have been converted into a museum to honor the famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, who stayed there in 1889–1890 at a time when the monastery had been converted to a lunatic asylum. Van Gogh created many paintings here, including the well-known The Starry Night.