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Villages with outstanding character - Boucieu

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Boucieu-le-Roi

Boucieu le Roi - village with outstanding character - Ardèche A royal destiny.
Situated between Tournon-sur-Rhône () and Lamastre (), Boucieu-le-Roi is one of the gems of the Doux Valley and the northern Ardèche (Ardèche Verte , with numerous vestiges of its glorious past still remaining. This highly favoured village gained its royal patronymic in 1291 under Philippe le Bel who set up a court of justice here. A number of magnificent houses such as that of the “bailli”()- the king’s agent who administered justice - with its corbelled turret, overlook the former Gallo-Roman road and the valley, which is spanned by a mediaeval bridge (). The church () construction of which began in 1492, is flanked on either side by a chapel. Its granite façades are discreetly ornamented with ogee lintels, capitals, columns, coats-of-arts, crosses, sculpted heads, a flower, star and sun. Visitors who discover Boucieu-le-Roi today fall under the same spell as the missionary priest, Pierre Vigne, who came here in the eighteenth century and was struck by its resemblance to Jerusalem

Practical information:

# Boucieu-le-Roi town hall ()
07270 Boucieu-le-roi
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 06 71 62 - Email.

# Tournonais Intercommunal tourist office
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 08 10 23 - Email.

Multimedia :
Visit of the village, in pictures.
Source: Boucieu-le-roi website.