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Located
at the foot of large Luberon, Cucuron rolls up
its picturesque lanes around its church and of
its medieval houses.
The unit is so harmonious and authentic that the
scenario writer Jean Paul Rappeneau chooses the
roofs of Cucuron to make there run his hero in
his film “Le hussard sur le toit”
History :
The village is already quoted at the 11th century
under the name of “castrum cucurone”.
A medieval village is established at that time
around a hillock strengthened by the family of
Reillanne-Valence.
The site is ideally located between the forest
road which climbing Luberon and which proves to
be one of the roads most attended between Apt
and Aix with the Middle Ages and the axis which
connects Lauris to Grambois, draining at the time
the traffic concentrated today on the road of
the edge of the Durance.
It is necessary to add to that of the particularly
fertile grounds and one obtains a borough which
quickly exceeds the limits of its ramparts.
The village is organized politically in the form
of consulate (consuls exerting a role in the field
of justice and the police force). The commercial
activities more than flourishing attract a Jewish
community which will manage the public weights
and the markets.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Cucuron
has more than one thousand of inhabitants. Wedge
catholic surrounded by Protestant villages, the
village will be preserved during the wars of religion
and will continue to grow to reach at the beginning
of the 18th century nearly 2000 inhabitants.
The economic crisis of the 18th century starts
to weaken the village, but it is especially the
epidemic of plague from Marseilles which will
make enormous devastations, killing more than
800 people between October 1720 and October 1721.
Cucuron will have much evil to be raised of this
catastrophe and the rural migration at the 19th
century will do nothing but worsen the situation.
The village will see its economy starting again
only after the First World War with in particular
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Population
: 1828 inhabitants
Apt : 26 km
Cavaillon : 28 km
Avignon : 66km |
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L’Eglise
paroissiale Notre Dame de Beaulieu :
Of Gothic style romano, it was probably built
to compensate for the insufficiency of the old
church of the old city being given the fast increase
in the population of the village.
The nave is 12th century, the apse of 14th and
the side chapels of the 16th century. One can
admire there amongst other things, the retable
of the Master hotel out of marble and decorated
tables of the 18th century. A vault is dedicated
to Sainte Tulle, owner of the village. The vault
of the baptismal funds shelters very beautiful
“Ecce Homo” of the 16th century.
"La tour clocher" measurement
24 meters. The church of Cucuron is used as framework
with the festival of the Tree of May, saturdays
following on May 24. A large poplar is cut, brought
in procession then planted in front of the church
of which it must exceed the bell-tower. This tradition
is perpetuated in the Tulle honor Holy, owner
of the village which protected cucuronnais them
at the time of the epidemic of plague in 1720.
Le Beffroi :
Arranged at the 16th century on a door of the
enclosure of the 13th century, it is surmounted
by a bell-tower decorated with a charançon
to illustrate a popular saying: “When the
charançon is in the bell-tower, it is not
in corns”.
Le bassin de l’Etang :
Part of artificial water arranged at the 16th
century to feed from the mills with flour, it
is bordered today of majestic plane trees.
Le musée Marc Deydier :
Installed in a private
mansion of the 18th century, this museum bears
the name of a notary of impassioned Cucuron of
history and archaeology.
Collection of objects and daguerreotypes on the
rural life at the beginning of the 20th century.
Many prehistoric vestiges and gallo Roman.
Some vestiges of the fortifications
are still visible in particular the gate of
Cabrières, the door of Ginoux and the
Tower of the Round of the Lice.
They all come from the third enclosure set up
between 1545 and 1548.
Informations
:
Office de tourisme de Cucuron
Rue Léonce Brieugne
84160 CUCURON
Tel : 04.90.77.28.37 - 08 71 56 65 23
Email : : officetourisme.cucuron@wanadoo.fr
Site :
www.cucuron-luberon.com
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Début
juillet :
Fête votive
1er samedi après le 21 mai :
Fête de la sainte Tulle
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Hotels(R.)
: hotel restaurant
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