- Its location:
- The village of Visan is located in the Enclave des Papes, Vaucluse administrative territory wedged in the Drome, he is one of the four municipalities.
- Located 276 meters above sea level and rising to 367 meters (quarter Lautaret), it is backed by a beautiful natural amphitheater of colorful hills. It currently covers 4107 hectares and is one of 16 municipalities to have the right to attach its name to the AOC Côtes du Rhône Village.
- History:
- Visan boasts a rich and ancient heritage and history which traces are still strongly present in his face and his heritage.
- The first traces of this history back to the Paleolithic period, but especially just before the Christian era, around 70 BC during the reign of Augustus, a part of the second legion came there and set and mark the real beginnings of the history of the village. Visan Avisanum then called and was on the Roman road connecting to Vaison Valréas.
- In 737, Visan had to suffer the Saracen invasions, a field along the Herein still bears witness (there are Merovingian pottery).
- During the early Middle Ages, is a joint Visan manor where the flagship of the high society of Provence: the Leirieu, the Benedictines of Cluny, the ladies of St. Caesarius of Arles, the Templars of Richerenches ...
- In 1234, the manor passed into the main Mévouillon then in 1288, to the powerful family of leases to be bought by Jean Dauphin second in 1318. 30 years and open membership Delphinale the vast fortifications built at that time and still present, shows the willingness of dolphins to their new possession of a strong and important place in Provence. They rarely inhabit the castle of Marot, but they did beat the gold coins.
- On July 31, 1344, the Dauphin Humbert second cover debt yields Visan to Pope Clement VI, the fourth Pope of Avignon. Visan becomes papal territory for almost five centuries. From this period date the papal enclosure and all beautiful Renaissance and Baroque town houses that form the core of the old village, especially the streets of the nobles.
