Le musée-bibliothèque Pierre-André-Benoit est un musée d'art moderne et contemporain situé à Alès. Installé dans une bâtisse de style néo-classique, le château de Rochebelle, il est labellisé musée de France.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Alès, Gard, in southern France, standing on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1963.
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Gard is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 770,940 as of 2023; its prefecture is Nîmes.
The department is named after the river Gardon. In recent decades of the twenty-first century, local administration and French speakers have returned to the original Occitan name of the river, Gard. It is part of a revival of Occitan culture.
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Alès is a commune and subprefecture in the Gard department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Until 1926, it was officially known as Alais.
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This is not the diocese of Ales-Terralba in Italy, nor the Ancient Diocese of Alet in south-west France
The former French Catholic diocese of Alais was created in 1694, out of territory previously part of the diocese of Nîmes. It was suppressed after the French Revolution, with its territory being divided between the diocese of Avignon and the diocese of Mende. Its seat was Alès Cathedral.
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Alès Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and located in the town of Alès in the department of Gard, France. It has been a monument historique since 9 May 1914.
Alès was formerly a centre of the Huguenots and was taken only after a long siege by Louis XIII in 1627. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Alès was established here in 1694, at which time the construction of the cathedral began, but was not restored after the French Revolution: by the Concordat of 1801 its parishes were divided between the dioceses of Avignon and Mende.
Alès and its cathedral lie near the start of The Regordane Way, or St. Gilles Trail, an ancient road and medieval pilgrimage route.