Saint-Genius-of-Comolas

Saint-Genius-with-Comolas is a common French, located in the department Gard and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Its inhabitants is called Saint-Génerois

Geography

Commune of the Rhone gardois, Saint-Genius-of-Comolas is located in the back country Inhabitant of Avignon near the Vignoble of Tavel and the the Rhone. It is bordering on Saint-Laurent-of-Trees in the west, Laudun-l' Ardoise in north, Montfaucon in the North-East, Roquemaure in south-east.

It is served by the Trunk road RN580 (become RD980 ) which connects Avignon to Bagnols-sur-Cèze and by the secondary road RD101 which connects Saint-Laurent-of-Trees to Roquemaure.

Nimes is to 40 km, Avignon to 20 km.

The commune extends on raised or cultivated slopes (Vigne).

History

The name probably comes from Saint Geniuses who was decapitated close to Arles to have refused to transcribe the Edict of persecution of the Christians of the emperor Diocletin in 303. The name of Comolas could come from Latin cumulus (heap, hill), because of the presence of some hills and of a long stone bar called “mountain” and which culminates with 176 meters of Altitude.

With the Revolution, the village took the name of “Comolas Mountain”. Saint Geniuses, in Languedoc belonged to the enclave of the Provence, the church and the Château of Saint Geniuses belonged to the episcopal Mense of Avignon, under the terms of a donation made with the bishop Fulcherius in 911 by Louis the Blind man, King and Empereur of Italy.

During the wars and the incursions of the Large Companies, the church had been transformed into Forteresse, in the enclosure even of the castle, by the Pape Jean XXII (1317).

The church is development on a place. This church offers to the visitors a Fresque representing the martyrdom of Saint Geniuses and among the various statues that of a Saint Expédit, owner of the schoolboys, business men and candidates with the Permis to lead.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Church, visible bell-tower * Rule of the railway Virgin

  • Viaduc (bridge in beam: railway bridge at high speed belonging to the network LGV the Mediterranean)
  • railway Tunnel * Visible outcrops

Personalities related to the commune

Economic activities

See too

  • Cantons of Common Gard

  • of Gard

External bonds

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  • * * Saint-Genius-of-Comolas on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Genius-of-Comolas on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Genius-of-Comolas on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Genius-of-Comolas on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Genius-of-Comolas on Mapquest

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