Largentière
Largentière (Fr-Largentière.wav; Occitan: L'Argentièira) is a subprefecture and commune of the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southern France. It is located in the narrow valley of the Ligne, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest of Aubenas. Its name, adopted in the 13th century in place of its more ancient name Segualeriae (Ségualières), refers to the silver mines in the area between the 10th and 15th centuries, when the silver-bearing lead ores in intrusive veins in the Largentières sandstone were exploited under the authority of the Counts of Toulouse and the Bishops of Viviers, whose title Barons de Largentière was linked to the bishopric.
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• Name — Largentière • Native Name — L'Argentièira • Commune Status — Subprefecture and commune • Arrondissement — Largentière • Canton — Vallon-Pont-d'Arc • Insee — 07132 • Postal Code — 07710 • Mayor — Jean-Roger Durand • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — CC Val de Ligne • Demonym — Largentiérois • Elevation Min M — 147 • Elevation Max M — 420 • Area Km2 — 7.22 • Website — https: www.largentiere.fr
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Largentière appears in the authority records of the Etalab API Découpage administratif and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names as a place. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Largentière as an inhabited place. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Largentière as a commune. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as the administrative unit of Largentière. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Ardèche as the administrative unit of Largentière. Etalab API Découpage administratif records Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as the administrative region of Largentière. Etalab API Découpage administratif records France as the country of Largentière. The area of Largentière is 736.3 hectares, according to the Etalab API Découpage administratif. The Etalab API Découpage administratif records the postal code 07110 for Largentière.
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Economy and transportation
A busy industrial town in the nineteenth century, when it housed silk mills, its principal industry is now tourism. Its only railroad station was demolished in 1982, leaving the town accessible only by road.
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Sights
Besides its twelfth- to fifteenth-century château, the town conserves its thirteenth-century church, Nôtre-Dame-des-Pommiers, its Renaissance hôtel de ville, its palais de justice, and the Tour Argentière that collected the mines' produce for guarded transport.
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Personalities
• Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi (1279—1340), a prominent Jewish medieval philosopher.
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- 1.Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020.
- 2.Guoxiang Chi, Pierre Rheaume, and Kees Schrijver, "The Largentière sandstone Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Ardeche, France; fluid inclusion and geologic evidence for an epigenetic origin", Economic Geologyn92.1 (February 1997:108-113).
- 3.Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
- 4.16. 216.
- 5."Our Lady of the apple orchards"; an inscription of 1490 records the gift of the stone pulpit in Occitan: hieu Pierre Guarnier de Colens ay donat aquesta chadiera al convent.
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