Mane

In view of prehistory Mane is a site dotted with ruins, aqueducts and cemeteries. Moreover, most toponymists believe that the community took its name from the Roman goddess Mana Genita, who presided at the funeral. Titles Mane have a very respectable level of seniority as it was around the year 55 AD that Rome brought to its site selection imperial, that of creating a provincial market (Forum Neronis) that it was suitable place near the Via Domitian, which crosses the town. The High Middle Ages endowed site of Nearly Everything, which makes today's high architectural value. The centuries pass and Mane gradually takes its present appearance, which its inhabitants are so proud because Mane is not a village museum. The first image presented to the traveler who looks Mane is a rocky shady. Identify the two silhouettes: one, the Citadel, built in the twelfth century feudal fortress is the only remained intact in the Haute-Provence, the other characteristic is its bell tower and recently restored. All around Mane, scattered over its territory, vestiges of history itself, of course, the Roman bridge that led pilgrims feet off the water to Laye Salagon Priory, a historic monument built on the ruins Roman. It now houses a museum and garden ethnological. Not far, scored also integrates Sauvan Castle, built in the eighteenth century as a replica of the Petit Trianon, rich period furniture and gardens. Everywhere also "sheds sharp, improperly called Bories. Small masterpieces of rural architecture, these dry-stone huts bear witness to the remarkable skills of builders: the stones are assembled without hanger or binder. Some attribute the origin to the Gauls, they date back more prosaically in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In Mane, built by the know-how of master masons are enchanted by the myriad of cobbled streets and alleys, old doors and facades, fountains, decks and other architectural curiosities as the old medieval market. Mane was also a rebel. One example in 1851 in the village, which will start the departmental insurrection against the coup of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. The most famous native son, Henri Laugier, who was Secretary General of the United Nations, co-editor of the Charter of Rights and first president of the CNRS, should proudly see somewhere on the destinies of his village