Velleron

Velleron
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Avignon
Canton	Le Pontet
Community association	Grand Avignon
Coordinates	43 ° 57 '  N , 5 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 57 '  N , 5 ° 2'  E
height	40-246 m
surface	16.39 km 2
Residents	2,960 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	181 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	84740
INSEE code	84142
Website	velleron.fr

Velleron is a French commune with 2,960 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Le Pontet in the Arrondissement of Avignon .

location

Velleron is located between Pernes-les-Fontaines and L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the center of the agricultural plain of the Comtat Venaissin .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Residents	1,111	1,134	1,402	2,054	2,509	2,829	3,060

Town twinning

• Lucenay in the Rhône department , France

Attractions

• Consecration inscription for the local deity Buxenus
• Medieval Castle Crillon (currently used as the town hall)
• fountain
• Old Mill
• Remains of a thermal bath
• Two Borien , as since August 28, 1974 historique Monument apply

In 1174, the Saint-Michel church belonged to the mensal property of the Saint-Eusèbe de Saignon abbey and existed under the name Notre-Dame de Nazareth. In the thirteenth century, Astouaud, the town's ruler, expanded it into a fortress church. By marriage she went to the Crillon family, who were buried there, and then to the Cambis family, who built a chapel. The nave got a ribbed groin vault in the fourteenth century . The current facade dates from the eighteenth century. Since March 11, 2004 , the church has been a monument historique .

The Chapel of the Gray Penitents or chapelle de la Croix is dated to 1681 .

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  Saint-Michel church

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  old street

literature

• Robert Bailly: Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse . Avignon 1986, ISBN 2-903044-27-9 .
• Jules Courtet: Dictionnaire géographique, géologique, historique, archéologique et biographique du département du Vaucluse . Nîmes 1997, ISBN 2-84406-051-X .

Web links

Commons : Velleron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Bailly, Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse , p. 450
2. ^ Jules Courtet, Dictionnaire géographique , p. 359