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Uzès heritage

The Town of Uzès considers its heritage to be a driving force behind local development, which is why joint initiatives have been organized on a regular basis with the Municipal Office of Culture.

The Municipal Office of Culture has always called on a qualified staff to carry out an educational goal satisfying the largest public. The collaboration between the different architects of the Gard C.A.U.E. has been deciding to establish a program which makes the inhabitants sensitive to their environment, in order that they can appropriate it and above all the younger ones.

This programme provides for several annual events:

1) The creation of several teams of educators in connection with such popularly themed workshops as:
• ceramic decoration based on tile painting techniques of the Middle Ages. This workshop has been very popular from the beginning and throughout its various stages, including the post firing stage, making the tile a genuine ornamental piece. Grade school and junior high school students have successfully used these techniques.
• stone-cutting within the scope of a fountain-building project.
• discovery of defensive medieval architecture using the Uzès towers as very real examples.
• diet and medicine during the Middle Ages

2) Promotional operations on heritage, such as the publishing of brochures and leaflets, were repeatedly done in the past with the catalogues « of the protected sector, the bout d'ZAN, the organ in pictures». Currently, the permanent presentation of a large part of these exhibits in the municipal « Medieval Garden » compliments these undertakings. Not only is it a very pleasant place to be during the tourist season, but it is also a year-round meeting place for residents and an excellent educational tool for young schoolchildren.

3) Innovating experiences within the scope of national "open house" heritage days where an educational programme is prepared and implemented with care, mobilising sufficient staff both in number and motivation, not to mention volunteers. They allow us to receive 3,000 visitors in two days and offer new ways of looking at history architecture and botany.
Open house days for historic sites, Jardin medieval, Impasse Port Royal - 30700 Uzès, third weekend in September from 10 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm, free admission, special charge for some events.
Guided tours to learn about diet, healing and ornamentation in the Middle Ages from garden plantations, discovery of 15^th or 16^th century inscriptions and the 17^th century graffiti of Uzès prisoners (1632), gourmet workshop, open-faced sandwiches and pastries for children and adults, tasting of plant-based beverages with or without alcohol.

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