In 1284, the royal bastide of Villeneuve-de-Berg was created on the lands of the Cistercian monks of the Mazan Abbey. The town, built on a regular plan and equipped with a rampart in the 14th century, developed rapidly in the Middle Ages.
\nHeadquarters of a bailiwick (administrative and judicial district), it welcomed a wealthy population of magistrates, royal officers and merchant bourgeois. To meet the needs of the population, a wheat mill was built shortly after the founding of the bastide. The initiative came from a notary of the town, Pierre Salivaud, who became a royal clerk in 1343, who obtained authorization to establish a reservoir on the river and to dig a canal to supply his mill.<\/p>\n
This small heritage is emblematic of the Ibie valley, where there are many reservoirs and canals intended for irrigation or the operation of mills. This nourishing river today constitutes a natural resource of great interest, but fragile, which must be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A path along the old canal leads you to the small irrigation canal bridge, an original structure that allowed the canal to span a valley and then to the banks of the Ibie River. This walk is marked with three information panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":112574,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/apidae\/81195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/apidae"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/apidae"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berg-coiron-tourisme.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}