Ganges

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Small héraultaise city of 3341 inhabitants, Ganges, located between mountains and garrigues, is since highest antiquity a bond of privileged exchange.


The first known occupation is that of the carthaginois in Aganticum(place of the treasure). It was a counter to gather ores (iron, lead, money, gold). Later of the Celts, the volques aréconiques ones, set up a oppidum there. It was then a halt on the road of the salt and the ways of transhumance.


Until 1270, the city was under the domination of a lord. Thereafter the city acquired franknesses which it kept until the revolution. With the XIV° century the city was destroyed by the Lorry drivers ordered by Seguin de Badafol, after-effect of the one hundred year old war. Its apogee was with the XVI° century with a great development of the trade and craft industry. During the war of religion the city joined with the Protestants and of undergoing the anger of the king after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The city took part in the war of Camisards in 1702.


The city invested much thereafter in the breeding of the worms with silk and the city had many hosieries. It was the capital of the silk stockings since 1760. Unfortunately the disease of the worms with silk and the opening of Suez Canal involve a slow decline of these industries. In 1920 the city is active in the clothes industry of bottoms of luxury. Silk is replaced by nylon. Currently only one company resisted. The leisures in the open air are numerous with the practice of the canoe kayak, the climbing, the excursions pedestrian or in VTT. The city has many sports associations and cultural what to occupy any 3 year old public to 77 years and more!

See

The Saint-Pierre Church, rebuilt in 1860, whose organ was offered by the impératrice Eugenie (wife of Napoleon III).
The protesting Temple, inaugurated in 1851, is one of most significant of the area.

The Tower of the Clock, old belfry of XVIIe, contains a bell of 1531