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Cairanne Cultural Heritage

The 'Quenin-Constant' family's garden


This garden is the location of the Marius Constant’s house, destroyed in 1944 by a German shell during a fight between the German troops in retreat in the Rhone Valley and the French Resistance elements. It is a gift of Quenin-Constant family's to the Cairanne community in 2016. The landscape view from this garden consists of several different political entities until the XVIIIe century. On the left, the Principauté of Orange owned by a Dutch family Nassau. In the center the Comtat Venaissin with Sainte Cécile-les-Vignes under the authority of the Pope in Rome. On the right, the Dauphiné with the powerfull castle of Suze-la-Rousse and on the background the Languedoc, former provinces of the French Kingdom.