Discovery workshop of Provençal dance

Name: Discovery workshop of Provençal dance
Start: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Simiane

In the footsteps of the Comtadines

Sunday 18 September 2022, 16:00Passed

Registration

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You can discover and launch alongside the Comtadines de Valréas of the association of the Flag of Provence, to perform with them some dance steps. Free participation by reservation: 4 pm/4.30pm and 4.30pm/5pm (16 participants per workshop).
On the forecourt of the castle of Simiane. Booking: 04 90 35 30 44 or accueil-chateau@mairie-valreas.fr

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thème 2022

Patrimoine durable

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Château de Simiane

8 Place Aristide Briand 84600 Valréas

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The castle of Simiane is built on the remains of an old house that was built by the Montauban family in the thirteenth century. Hugues Aymeric built in the fourteenth century the two bodies of building still visible along the street of the City Hall. On the other hand, there are few traces of the work carried out in the 15th and 16th centuries by the Truchenu family. Most of the current building was built in 1639-1640 by the Cavaillonnais contractor Bernard Moureau on the plans of the Avignonnais architect François Royer de la Valfenière for Louis de Simiane (This Avignonnais architect owes many buildings in the Comtat, including the bishopric of Carpentras). It was not until 1780 that the symmetry of the composition was completed with the replacement of an old building by the south wing (architect Avignonnais Franque who also carried out the plans of the bishopric of Viviers). Simiane Castle houses in 1823 the college and the Justice of Peace. It was not until 1843, by order of King L