Céreste-en-Luberon

History

A Gallo-Roman period settlement was established in the quarter of today's Saint-Sauveur priory, possibly as a crossing control point for the river. Surviving relics of the Roman period include a potters' oven, an ancient tomb and Sarcophagi at Saint-Sauveur. The Priory of Carluc was founded in the eleventh century. Another priory, that of Saint-Sauveur-Au-Pont, belonged during the twelfth and thirteenth century to the Abbey of Saint Andrew at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The fiefdom was held initially by the Forcalquiers, and later by the Brancas family. By the start of the eighteenth century, the Estieu brothers were running a pottery oven. During the French Revolution the commune had its own Patriotic Society, a variation on the Jacobin Club theme, created in this case soon after 1792.

Geography

The river Calavon forms the commune's northern and northwestern borders. It borders Vaucluse to the south and southwest.

Most-observed species

• Blue Aphyllanthes

  Aphyllanthes monspeliensis L. · Liliopsida
  783
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  478
• Annual Androsace

  Androsace maxima L. · Magnoliopsida
  462
• Eurasian Blackcap

  Sylvia atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  410
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  400
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  390
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  388
• Pyramidal Orchid

  Anacamptis pyramidalis (L.) Rich. · Liliopsida
  383

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2008-12-23
  4 km ENE of Éguilles, France
• M 2.8 — 2008-11-25
  2 km N of Malataverne, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-07-23
  8 km N of Fayence, France
• M 2.7 — 2008-05-21
  6 km SSW of Carqueiranne, France
• M 2.5 — 2007-08-27
  19 km S of Barcelonnette, France
• M 2.6 — 2007-08-03
  1 km NE of Jonquières-Saint-Vincent, France