Draguignan 231

A little of History

«La Pierre de la Fée» dolmen of Neolithic time under-lines that Draguignan was lived in this time.

If the Neolithic period precedes that of the age of the bronze, During this period the man sedentary. It is the
birth of the agriculture of the breeding and the craft revealing by the presence of potteries of jewels in gra-ves.

This period is characterized by the
construction of megaliths modes of construction of which we ignore quite The period Hallstatt left it sound borrows, curiously at the level of the old town. Ancient

Roman fortress (under the old castle) the birth of Dra-guignan should date the development of lands by the Roman agriculture, where from would be pulled its name, although the legend makes reference to a dragon.

Powerful citadel in the middle age, the castle of Dra-guignan was shaved following the Fronde (revolt of the Lords against the royal authority during the regency.

It was the departure of one period of decline until
Bonaparte who made the prefecture of the Var, Prefec-ture who was transplanted in Toulon in 1974.

Witness of the hard fights of 1944, Draguignan accom-modates the school of artillery, the Criminal court and offers all the charm of one of the capitals of Provencal.