Largentière

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Largentière
Subprefecture and commune
The castle in Largentière
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 44°32′37″N 4°17′39″E / 44.5436°N 4.2942°E / 44.5436; 4.2942Coordinates: 44°32′37″N 4°17′39″E / 44.5436°N 4.2942°E / 44.5436; 4.2942
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Roger Durand[1]
Area 1	7.22 km2 (2.79 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	1,598
• Density	220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07132 /07710
Elevation	147–420 m (482–1,378 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Largentière (French: [laʁʒɑ̃tjɛʁ] ; L'Argentièira in Occitan) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southern France.

It is located in the narrow valley of the , approximately ten kilometres southwest of Aubenas.

Largentiere is the smallest sub-prefecture in France.

Its name, adopted in the thirteenth century in place of its more ancient name Segualeriae (Ségualières), refers to the silver mines in the area between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, when the silver-bearing lead ores in intrusive veins in the Largentières sandstone^[3] were exploited under the authority of the Counts of Toulouse and the Bishops of Viviers, whose title barons de Largentière was linked to the bishopric.

Population[]

Economy and transportation[]

A busy industrial town in the nineteenth century, when it housed silk mills^[4] its principal industry is now tourism. Its only railroad station was rased in 1982, leaving the town accessible only by road.

Sights[]

Besides its twelfth- to fifteenth-century château, the town conserves its thirteenth-century church, Nôtre-Dame-des-Pommiers,^[5] its Renaissance hôtel de ville, its palais de justice, and the Tour Argentière that collected the mines' produce for guarded transport.

Personalities[]

• Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi (1279—1340), a prominent Jewish medieval philosopher.

See also[]

• Communes of the Ardèche department

References[]

External links[]

• Tourism site
• Largentière on the departmental site

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