St Sixte - Eygalières

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The chapel is situated on a site of ancient worship: until the XIXth century, it sheltered a pagan stela reused as a baptismal font. This stela testified to a cult devoted to water. On the hill, a spring flowed, which was captured by the 6th Roman legion and conveyed to Arles through an underground aqueduct. It serves as the starting point of one of the two aqueducts that supplied Arles under the high empire. That's where Eygalières gets its name: the Roman colony bore the toponym AQUALERIA in reference to the numerous springs that bubbled up on its territory. Additionally, vestiges of a Gallo-Roman villa have been found on the site. Since the beginning of the XIIIth century, a procession bearing an image of the saint has departed from the parish church on the Tuesday of "roumavage" during Easter to reach the chapel: believers implore the saint to spare them drought, a scourge in rural areas.