Riez

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Riez Riés (Occitan)
Commune
Roman Temple of Apollo ruins
Coat of arms
Location of Riez
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Coordinates: 43°49′08″N 6°05′37″E / 43.8189°N 6.0936°E / 43.8189; 6.0936
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement	Forcalquier
Canton	Riez
Intercommunality	Durance-Luberon-Verdon Agglomération
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christophe Bianchi[1]
Area 1	40 km2 (20 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,643
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	04166 /04500
Elevation	473–680 m (1,552–2,231 ft) (avg. 520 m or 1,710 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Riez (French pronunciation:

The densely built village sits where two small rivers join—the Auvestre and the Colostre—in a glacially widened valley.

Demographics

Economy

Riez is located in a district of fields of commercially grown

History

The domed hill was the hillfort headquarters of the Reii a Celto-Ligurian tribe, who gave their name to the Roman community in the valley floor near it: Alebaece Reiorum it was called, then Alebaece Reiorum Apollinares^[4] from the Roman temple of Apollo from which four Corinthian columns yet stand. The name evolved to Regium (until the 8th century) then Regina (until the 11th century).

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In the Middle Ages, the new structures of the town were gradually built away from the junction adjacent to the rivers to slightly higher ground because of a rising river. Alluvial silt deposited in the beds of the small rivers—a familiar result of deforestation in the rivers' upper watersheds—had raised the beds of the rivers and extended the floodplain. Deep alluvium still covers much of the Roman site of Reii Appolinares.

Sites

Today the baptistery contains a small archaeological museum of altars and funerary

See also

• Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
• List of works by Louis Botinelly

References

• Catholic Encyclopedia: "Digne"
• Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Alebaece Reiorum Apollinarium (Riez) Alpes de Haute-Provence, France"

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Riez.

• Town's website (in French)