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Situated halfway among Bollène and Orange, in the North of the department, Mornas spreads out at feet of abrupt(steep) one rocky bar of 137 metres. In the two extremities raise themselves(draw up themselves) proudly two carved strengthened doors, drilled in ramparts. Longer than wide, the village seems to be crushed at feet of its rocky bar which its fortress dominates still the Rhone down from its cliff.
This small village knew how to keep(preserve) some vestiges of his(its,her) past. On the steep road and taut which(who) leads to the Fortress, you will walk past the chapel Valley Romingier constructed in the XII-th century which is the ancient(former) parochial church of the village. The original disposal of the hall would be, as we are said, a construction inspired with the antique theater of Orange.
Hardly of a dynamic associative tissue which protects him(it), the association " Friend de Mornas " welcomes the guests in the Fortress and proposes a visit animated(stimulated) with historic reconstructions. So, you you retouverez transported in the yard of the Count of Toulouse, the Lord who built him(it) in the XII ° to speak about it and the suits of this period. You will be able to listen how Vacqueyras's Rimbaud formerly blackmailed Provençal language, program in the purest medieval tradition which accompanies also the restoration of the site begun since 1977.
Mornas would have been able to be a quiet village if he had not collected at the same moment the highway, N7 and line of railroads!!! But due to the development of its cultural patrimony and its history, Mornas knew how to make forget his(her) weak points and attracts(entices) every year of numerous guests.
To visit:
Chapel Ste Baudile (vestiges), ramparts. Church of Valley Romigier (XI ° and XII °). Carry(wear) St Nicolas and St Pierre. Mornas's medieval fortress: full of life visits.
