Hyères

Hyères , still called Hyères-les- Palm tree S in a nonofficial way (in Occitan Of Provence Ieras according to the traditional standard or Iero according to the Standard mistralienne), is a city of the south-east of the France, on the the Mediterranean, in the east of Toulon. Its inhabitants is the Hyérois . One must make the elision and speak about the town of Hyères as well as islands of Hyères. The name of this city seems to come from the saline which extended in the vicinity, perhaps since late Antiquity, after deterioration of the Latin term areae indicating saline Marais. Hyères is quoted for the first time in 963 pennies the form Eyras or Eras .

It is in Hyères, in 1887, that Stéphen Liégeard created the term of Riviera: “ along this bathed beach of rays which deserves our baptism of Riviera, Hyères the first had the idea to put its gifts blessed at the service of the disease and the hope ”

Geography

The commune of Hyères includes in particular the Presqu'île of Giens and the islands of Hyères. These islands include/understand Porquerolles, Port-Cross-country race and the island of Raising as well as many small islands and small islands. They are called also the Gold islands, this name was given to them to the Rebirth, undoubtedly because, under certain lightings, the mica schists of their rocks have gold reflections. In addition to these islands, the city is made up of many districts such as Collects It, Giens, Almanarre, Ayguade, Saline-with Hyères or Borrels. The city skirts the sea on 39 km of coast, and is more in the south of the Provence. These coasts are in turn of sand or rock cliffs.

Oldest of the health resorts of the Riviera is in a sheltered site. Its old workings cling to the southern slope of the hill of Castéou (204 m) and dominate the modern city and the roads which the course Bénat and the peninsula of Giens enclose. The notoriety of the city is done as of the 18th century.

Communes bordering

Climate

Transport

Districts and localities

  • the commune of Hyères being very wide in surface, it was subdivided in several districts, called “fractions”, which have a city hall annex. These city hall annexes are the following ones:
    • Saline the
    • Ayguade
    • Borrels
    • Sauvebonne
    • the Port
    • Collects It
    • Giens
    • Porquerolles
    • Port-Cross-country race
    • Raising It

Toponymy

The name of Hyères is a deformation of the name of old the Roman colony Areae .

History

See article Chronology of Hyères

Administration and policy

Hyères is divided into three canton S, but is Chef-lieu only of two of them:

that is to say 50.789 inhabitants.

The third part of Hyères belongs to the Canton of Crau.

Mayors of Hyères

Political results

Teaching

Health

Public services

  • the administration of the Post office also created post offices decentralized, with different stamps on date according to the offices:
    • Hyères-Hotel-of-City
    • the Hyères-Main thing
    • the Hyères-Main thing B
    • Saline-in Hyères
    • Island-of-Raising
    • Island-of-Port-Cross-country race
    • Porquerolles
    • Ayguade it Belt

Twinnings

Economy

Tourism

Salt production

Demography

Demographic trends

Population pyramid

Culture and inheritance

Environmental inheritance

  • Garden Olbius-Riquier
Olbius Hippolyte Antoine Riquier bequeaths the Riquier field by will to the town of Hyères on April 13rd 1868. July 14th 1872, on a joint idea of the municipality and of Albert Holy Geoffroy Hilaire, then director of the Zoological gardens of Paris, a convention is signed leasing for 26 years the ground of closed Riquier in order to create an establishment there where one could cultivate, study and create tropical species suitable for be acclimatized in our areas. This place was an appendix of the zoological gardens of Paris. Nowadays, this park of 7 hectares is at the same time a pleasure garden and a Botanical garden with many rare exotic gasolines.

Architectural heritage

  • Villa Noailles

See also: Villa Noailles

  • Vault Saint-Blaise known as tower of Templiers

Commandery built by the order of the Temple at the 12th century. At the 14th century it included/understood main building, barn, storeroom, mill, furnace and the tower Saint-Blaise, his only current vestige. After the suppression about the Temple it was assigned to the community of the brothers of the hospital commandery of Baulieu, which initially leased them with various private individuals. In 1673, it yielded them to the city, by emphyteutic lease. The vault remained affected with penitent blue until 1765. The city transformed on this date the vault into market, then made add a stage interns in 1770. It made carry out the installation of an intermediate level, with demolition of the vaults and construction of an interior staircase. The town hall consequently occupied the places until 1913. After restoration, it is a place of exposure today. This building was classified historic building on March 30th, 1987.

  • Collegial Saint-Paul

Historic building classified in 1992. Permanent exposure of ex-votos which tell events which proceeded during the wars of religion. The legend wants that the treasure of the templiers is hidden there.

  • Archeological site of Olbia

Reopened with the public in 1999, the archeological site of Olbia, old counter of the city of Marseilles, juxtaposes Greek, Roman and medieval elements. Located at the edge of the golf of Giens, in Hyères, on the road of the counters between Nice and Marseilles, Olbia (“the Happy one” in Greek) is evoked by Strabon () in its Géographie . The site was excavated as of the 19th century by various archeologists, of which prince Frederic, future king of Denmark, Alphonse Denis, mayor of Hyères, and the lieutenant-colonel Poitevin de Maureillan.

  • Castle Saint-Bernard

The castle and the fragments of the first urban enclosure dominate the site whose escarpment was retained for its possibilities of defense. At the top, the castle preserves only the vestiges of which have escaped with its dismantling in 1620. The enclosure of the oldest part of the city frames the castle and delimits a zone already largely abandoned by the population at the 14th century with the profit of the low city. It is of this time that date the general rebuilding of the work whose fragments are still visible, both for the high city the low city.

  • Manor house Holy-Claire

The manor house Holy-Claire is the first of the buildings which, starting from the middle of the 19th century, reinvested vacant spaces of the old city. It is a built villa, in a Romance style of imagination, by Olivier Voutier, the discoverer of Venus de Milo. Thereafter, the American writer Edith Wharton resided at it of 1927 to 1937 whereas Robert Mallet-Stevens and of many other artists worked, at the closed Saint-Bernard, for Charles de Noailles.

  • Moorish Villa

Located 2, avenue Jean-Natte, this villa was built in 1881 by the architect Pierre Chapoulart for the industrialist Alexis Godillot. It was intended at the same time for the receptions given by the industrialist but also for the hiring to wintering.

Personalities

  • Artists

  • Writers
    • Paul Le Bourget, it had a splendid villa with Costebelle Plantier
    • Paul Berna one of the pseudonyms of Jean Sabran, writer of books for children and books police
    • Joseph Conrad
    • Victor Hugo
    • André Malraux which had married Josette Clotis girl of the mayor of Hyères Joseph Clotis. She will die under dramatic conditions as well as the two wire Pierre Gauthier and Vincent (May 23rd, 1961) that she had given him.
    • Josette Clotis: French writer, woman of Andre Malraux, author of the basket maker , a measurement for nothing , dead crushed by a train on November 12th, 1944 with Saint-Chamand. On its life with Malraux to see Suzanne Chantal the heart beating : Josette Clotis, André Malraux
    • Jules Michelet
    • Saint-John Perse
    • Robert Louis Stevenson It remained in 1883 and 1884 in a country cottage called Solitude. He wrote “This corner then, our garden and our sight is sub celestial. I sing the every day with Bunian the large bard. I reside close to the Paradise. Later he wrote “Happy, I were it once and it was in Hyères”
    • Edith Wharton
  • Ecclésiastiques
  • Industriels
    • Alexis Godillot (1816-1893), supplier of the armies of Napoleon III in particular of shoes to which he will leave his name. It arranged districts of the city.
    • Hippolyte Fountain
  • Doctors
    • Alfred Richet (Dijon 1816-Hyères 1891), large French surgeon, father of Charles Richet, Nobel Prize in 1913.
    • Andre and Gaston Durville doctors creative of Héliopolis in the island of Raising.
  • Military
  • Musicians
    • Darius Milhaud
    • Miquèu Montanaro, musician of Provence born in 1955.
    • Charles d' Ivry (Ivry October 27th, 1867 in Mountain Hyères December 16th, 1903): musician and type-setter of operas
    • Ernest Reyer
    • Ambroise Thomas
  • Artists of theater and cinema
    • Simone Berriau
    • Richard Bohringer, born on January 16th, 1941 with Mills, actor and singer. Lives in the district of the Ayguade.
    • Mylène Demongeot, born on September 28th, 1936 with Nice, actress. Lives on the island of Porquerolles.
    • Henri Garat, born on April 3rd, 1902 in Paris (under the name of Emile Henri Garascu), died in the hospital of Hyères in 1959. Actor of Cinema the French of inter-war period, very famous then, but having finished its life in greatest misery. Henri Garat also sang many successes in the Thirties, in particular To have a good friend , taken again by Jean-Pierre Bacri in film of Alain Resnais: One knows the song .
    • Gerard Jugnot, born on May 4th, 1951 with Paris, actor and realizer of cinema. Lives on the peninsula of Giens.
  • Sporting
    • Lucien Aimar, born in 1941, champion cycle, victorious of the Tour de France 1966.
    • Alain Boghossian, born on October 27th, 1970, former French footballer, medium, international having gained the world cup 1998.
    • Lilian Compan, having been born on April 30th, 1977, footballer, attacker, international hope.
    • Henri Lacroix, triple world champion of Game of bowls.
    • Frank Lebœuf, born on January 22nd, 1968 with Marseilles. Footballer, selected with 50 recoveries in team of France, world champion 1998. He played F.C. Hyères of 1986 to 1987.
    • Nathalie Lelièvre, world champion of Funboard.
    • Thierry Michaud, world champion of Trial.
    • Pierre Repellini, born in 1950, international footballer, with the ACE Saint-Etienne at the time of large the epopee of the Greens.
  • Politicians
    • Maillefer
    • Yann Piat appointed National front then Republican party, assassinated in 1994.
  • Other famous personalities

Heraldic

Myths, legends and anecdotes

Books from which the action occurs to Hyères

  • Eugene-Nickel silver of Vogue: Jean d' Agrève

  • William Luret: the man of Porquerolles
  • Russet-red Gustave: Tales of the country hyérois
  • Joseph Conrad: the brother of the coast
  • Paul Le Bourget: Under the Palm trees of Hyères and others
  • Charlotte Turner Smith: Celestina 1791
  • Angel: Frenchy and Fanny: Volume 1 - Mysteries with Hyères
  • Kélilan: the oneiric crossing of Daffodil Azure: Volume 1 - City-dream

Daily life with Hyères

Culture

  • municipal Museum
Paintings end Frenchwomen and foreign. Collections of archeology of the site of Olbia, sculptures of the 19th century.
  • Theater Denis
  • the central library
Become since June 2005 a media library instead of the old center of the taxes, places Theodore-Lefebvre.

The sport

Festivities

Places of worships

Gallery

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