locations de vacances dans les gorges du verdon au coeur de la provence

WELCOME IN THE ROMAN CITY
Wonderfully located at the crossroads of two fertile valley, RIEZ was, until the Revolution, an important regionalcapital. Before the Roman arrival, the Gallic oppidum intalled on the Saint-Maxime hillside was the country town, of the REII tribe. Emperor Augustus founded a build up area, in the plain and gave it the prestigious name of "Colony of Latin Law". During the antiquity era it was the administrative and religious centre of the area between the bléone, Durance and Verdon rivers and the Prealps of Digne and Castellane.

The ancient town (colonia Julia Augusta Reiorum Apollinaris) became a cathedral town and starting from the Thirteenth century, the bishop ruled over Riez and its area, until the Revolution. The ramparts, build in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were poor protection fort the inhabitants from plague epidemics and the Wars of Religion.
However, it was a prosperous town during the Renaissance and is still today, thanks to its agricultural products : wineyard, olives, almonds, wheat, vegetables and breeding, also to its craftmen, tanners, weawers, potters and ropemakers, the trade towards Aix-Marseille, Draguignan and the Southern Alps.