8 Tour de LHorloge grd

This tower, crowned with a wrought iron campanile surrounded by five crosses, was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century. The mechanism of the clock consisted of a weight system that the incumbent "clock driver" had to wind up. The Clock Tower marks the great moments in municipal life.

Demolition and reconstruction work on the Town House backing onto the tower was completed on January 18, 1768. The whole housed the town hall until 1977.

Above the porch which opens onto the Calavon valley and Mont Ventoux, we notice the coat of arms of the town carved in the 17th century. The town is represented there by the monogram MB surrounded by two crescents and two keys. The crescents symbolize in the heraldic vocabulary the chivalrous virtues (nobility, wealth, growth…) and the keys represent the pontifical power. The ensemble is crowned by a stylized representation of the ramparts and towers which recalls the omnipresent role of the lords and the strength of the village fortified by them.

 

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