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Flag of Roaix - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 3 March 2004
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The village of Roaix (600 inhabitants, 597 hectares) is located 40 km
north of Avignon and 6 km west of Vaison-la-Romaine. The area around Vaison is known as Pays voconce, after the
eponymous Gallic tribe. The Gallo-Roman town, known today as
Vaison-la-Romaine, was called Vasio Vocontiorum.
Roaix is well-known by paleontologists. In a place called les Crottes
(after Latin crotae, caves), an hypogeum including about a hundred of human
skeletons was found. Most of the human beings buried there had an arrow
point stuck in thorax, and it is believed that an early collective
slaughter took place in Roaix in the late Neolithic (Chalcolithic). An
artefact known as perle de Roaix was dated with carbon-14 to 3015-2207
BP. It was then considered as the most ancient glass artefact found in
southern France and the possible indication of an early elaborated glass
craft industry. However, a more recent study showed that the pearl was
made of turquoise and not of glass.
Roaix was mentioned for the first time as Roais in 1137, then
belonging to the bishop of Vaison. Next year, the domain was granted to
the Knight Templar Arnaud de Bedos, commander in the neighbouring vilage of Richerenches. The commanderie (fortified estate) of Roaix was granted
autonomy in 1148. The Order of Temple was suppressed in 1312 by Pope
Clement V at King of France Philippe le Bel's greedy instigation, and
Roaix became a Papal domain, immediatly enfeoffed to the Vaesc family.
The Vaesc built the castle of Roaix in the XVIth century.
The village is divided into two parts, the old village on top of the
hill, around the castle, and the new village on the banks of the river
Ouvèze. The bridge on the Ouvèze was destroyed in September 1992 by the
flood which also flooded Vasion-la-Romaine.
Roaix is known for its wine. The vinyard covers 85% of the cultivated land. It is part of the Côtes-du-Rhône vinyard. Since 1966, Roaix is one of the 16 villages which are allowed to use the name Côtes-du-Rhône Village and add their name on the label of the bottles. It is the smallest of these villages, with a vinyard stretching over 46 hectares only.
Ivan Sache, 3 March 2004
The flag of Roaix is white with the
municipal coat of arms, surmonted by a crown and surrounded by two
branches.
The coat of arms of Roaix is (Brian Timms):
De gueules à la fasce d'argent chargée de quatre colonnes de sable,
accompagnée de deux étoiles d'or (Gules on a fess argent four columns througout sable in chief two
mullets or).
Ivan Sache, 3 March 2004
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