23 Facts About Lambesc

Lambesc is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhone department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in Southern France.

Lambesc is located in the heart of Provence at the foot of the Cotes mountain range, near the Alpilles.

Lambesc is located on a hillside in the Massif de la Trevaresse, 1.

Archaeologists have found that Lambesc was already occupied in the Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Under the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XVI, Lambesc played an important political role in the history of Provence.

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Lambesc became a principality in 1688 and remained in the hands of the family of Lorraine de Brionne until 1789, the year of the French Revolution.

Finally, Madame de Sevigne came several times to Lambesc to visit her daughter Franchise, wife of Count Grignan, lieutenant general of the king in Provence.

Peculiarity of its name is that "Lambesc" has always been spelled out in the Occitan language Provence, although Arnaud d'Agnel gallicised it as the "Lambs" in 1477.

Lambesc can be accessed by car on Route nationale 7; its position places the town at the crossroads of the principle tourist attractions in the Provence.

Originally Lambesc was crossed by four rivers: the Lavaldenan, Estagnol, the Concernade and Touloubre, of which only the latter still retains a significant flow.

The rest of Lambesc was regrouped into a "general council of the community", with a municipal system adopted since 1715.

The status of the Lord of Lambesc was a bone of contention with the French monarch, who considered it as an "autonomous principality in Western Provence" which he had created.

In terms of justice, the Prince of Lambesc named a judge, who sat in his courtroom, the Hotel Du Janet.

Lambesc depended, in terms of its finances, on the stewardship of the Viguerie and the revenues of Aix.

In 2008, the municipality of Lambesc won the regional 'Premio' competition, organized by 'Cape Energies' and became a pilot city in Sustainable Development.

In 1787 Lambesc therefore had a soap factory, two boilers and two tile.

Lambesc, above all, was a stage coach town; that was the main reason for its houses and hostels.

Lambesc has many churches due to its ultra-Catholic character during the Middle Ages.

Tourist accommodation in Lambesc is varied: hotels, cottages, bed and breakfast and camping.

The "Conservation patrimoine de Lambesc" Association was founded in October 2009, whose first project is to add sails to the mill and then to grind wheat; the tower will then become a windmill.

Lambesc inherited seven monuments and many classified historic paintings .

Lambesc possess many buildings of worship: the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, replaced the old building .

Outside Lambesc, there is the votive chapel of Saint-Roch, rebuilt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Sainte-Anne-de-Goiron, which belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Victor de Marseille until the early twelfth century, then to Saint-Andre of Villeneuve-les-Avignon, and then to Silvacane at the end the twelfth century, and finally to the Abbey of Saint-Andre of Villeneuve-les-Avignon.