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May.18,2008

My Languedoc village

Sommieres

This beautiful village is well known for it’s medieval centre, it’s chateau and it’s Saturday market, is on the edge of the area known as the Vaunage.The presence of the Vidourle river attracted it’s first inhabitants as far back as several millenia. This can been confirmed by finds of flints and stone workings in caves upstream.The Emperor Tiberius, in the 1st Century constructed the main bridge over the Vidourle river into Sommieres in order to link Nimes with Toulouse or Lodeve. The original bridge was 189m long and consisted of 17 arches. Most of these arches now have been built over and make up one side of the present market square (there are medieval shops and housing over them). Only 7 arches are now visible.

In the Middle Ages, the population was drawn to the area around the chateau for refuge and protection. At this time the economy ofthe village turned towards working with skins and leathers. There were many herds of cattle in this area and the local oak trees provided the much sought after tannin needed, the Vidourle provided the plentiful water supply required. Locals now started to build their homes in roman style arcades as the Vidourle was showing some of it’s flooding characteristics. The very famous Saturday market with around 140 artisans selling their products, can be proven to date back to 1183.We will be leaving on Friday together with Hiroko and Sun (Miss Korea) for 10 days of training. Also Maquia magazine, On-Style Korean TV and NHK japanese national broadcaster will be joigning us.

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