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Located next to the Porte Notre-Dame and the Cormorant Fountain, the covered hall replaced the butcher shop which was moved further away still within the city walls. Construction work lasted from 1622 to 1627 and as soon as it was inaugurated, it became the center of life and entertainment of Pernes but above all an important place of trade and exchange, so you could find fruit and vegetable displays, butchers, charcuterie, fish and many other things!
More and more frequented, it will gain in comfort and layout with the addition of benches all around the structure, stairs and stone paving.
At nightfall, the shopkeepers left making the place quieter and the lights of the Porte Notre-Dame brightening up the square, the covered hall was transformed into a place for discussions and meetings between bourgeois looking for company and itinerant actors looking for a show. In the
20th century, the covered hall lost its original purpose and was initially transformed into a barracks for Senegalese soldiers during the First World War and will therefore be walled up and then become a cinema at the beginning of the 1920s until 1967 where the place will regain its original appearance and will be restored as in the 17th century while maintaining two walls to shelter the place from the wind.
Booklet 'Pernes, the Pearl of Comtat: the Short Guide'
Discover the history of Pernes-les-Fontaines through its coat of arms, its great monuments, its mansions and its most emblematic fountains. A short 30-page guide in A5 format that will allow you to do a quick overview but provides you with the main assets of the city.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/30 pages/2€/Authors: Laetitia Onde-Quiot and Jean-Pierre Segarra/By check or cash/No distance selling
Book 'Pernes-les-Fontaines'
An irreplaceable summary of the history of this village in which, over the centuries, wars, rabies, plague, and enfeodations could in no way affect the beauty, the art of living and the vitality of Pernes. By putting the past into the present, this book on the city of Pernes invites us to travel. A journey through history, a time machine, it takes us through the streets, into the heart of the fountains, into the daily life of a past where centuries speak of their legend. Through the monuments and events that illustrated this small town from Comtadine, the authors have perpetuated, in their own way, the oral tradition by reviving the country chapels surrounded by the legend of their patron saints, the flour and oil mills, the flour and oil mills, the picturesque bories and the ancient hotels of the old town that proudly taunt time.
On sale at the Pernes-les-Fontaines tourist office/171 pages/7.50€/Authors: Denise Cartoux, Pierre Fayot, Pierre Gabert/By check or cash/No distance selling
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