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A Vine, a Church, a Castle, a blue sky, here the charm of a small Gardois village filled of history:

It would be a Gallo-Roman god, Letinno which would have given its name to the village. A furnace bridge being devoted him is visible with the museum of Nimes. Name which with the wire of time was transformed into Letino, ledeno, then Lédenon in 1578. The village is under development full towards the end of the 13 eme century, at time or the great clearings complete to transform the drills Gallic, in agricultural France. The Roman aqueduct connecting Uzès in Nimes with as left most visible the Bridge Gard crossed our plain. Its stones served A construirent the strong castle which dominates the hill, with the Romane church disappeared today, at the houses embedded in the ramparts. Thus integrating the village low located in plain, behind the railway. This village which bordered the Pond of Clausonne, included/understood a church and fisheries. The village, although located in margin of the main road will not escape has any of against blows of the great event history. It will be plundered and held to ransom during the one hundred year old war, because of the strategic importance of its strong castle, or it will be strongly damaged by armed vagrants. In the second party of the 16 eme centuries it will undergo the effects of the religious wars. With the 18 eme century, Lédenon is a baronnie. The revolution by releasing the grounds of the influence of the nobility and the high clergy while making them available to all succita a true economic boom whose village was one of the recipients. In 1842 a work of the prefecture announces that the wine of Lédenon is the first of the department by its quality and the excellence of its marketing. Tankers, shootings by horses, deliver village to Lyon. I Grace has this economic dash the destroyed Romance church was rebuilt in 1893, in 1931 construction of the current co-operative cellar of the wine of Lédenon. In 1942 Lédenon will be the theatre, without its knowledge of an event of the second world war. The castle, today town hall office.

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