Valréas
Valréas (Vauriàs) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Valréas
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Valréas apparaît dans les notices d'autorité de la Etalab API Découpage administratif et de la Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names comme lieu.
Classement
Les notices d'autorité de la Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names enregistrent Valréas comme lieu habité. Etalab API Découpage administratif enregistre Valréas comme « commune ». Les notices d'autorité de la Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names enregistrent Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur comme unité administrative de Valréas. Etalab API Découpage administratif enregistre Vaucluse comme unité administrative de Valréas. Etalab API Découpage administratif enregistre Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur comme région administrative de Valréas. Etalab API Découpage administratif enregistre France comme pays de Valréas.
Mesures
La superficie de Valréas est de 5 867,21 hectares, selon la Etalab API Découpage administratif. La Etalab API Découpage administratif enregistre le code postal 84600 pour Valréas.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Valréas • Commune Status — Commune • Arrondissement — Carpentras • Canton — Valréas • Insee — 84138 • Postal Code — 84600 • Mayor — Patrick Adrien • Term — 2020–2026 • Elevation M — 276 • Elevation Min M — 158 • Elevation Max M — 530 • Area Km2 — 57.97 • Website — http: www.valreas.net
History
History
The area around the town of Valréas is known as L'Enclave des Papes. It is an enclave of Vaucluse, surrounded by the department of the Drôme. The foundation of the Enclave began in 1317 when Pope John XXII bought Valreas for the papacy of Avignon. The story goes that following a visit to Valreas, feeling unwell he was offered some wine from the area. Liking it he decided to purchase the town to ensure his wine supply. Over the next 150 years or so his successors added to the Enclave by the addition of the small towns of Visan, Richerenches and Grillon. The boundaries were defined by tall stone markers carrying the coat of arms of the popes. The present-day boundaries are still delimited by some of these stones, one of which is outside the entrance to the Valreas Tourist office. When the departments of France were created after the Revolution the people of the Enclave requested to remain as part of the department of Vaucluse (see Comtat Venaissin). Hence the "Enclave des Papes".
Twin towns
Twin towns
Valréas is twinned with: • Sachsenheim, Germany • Saint Paul, Quebec, Canada • Montignoso, Italy
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