Puyricard ( Provençal Occitan: ''Puegricard'' in classical norm) is an agglomeration in the Bouches-du-Rhône '' département'' in Provence in the south of France, dependent on the town of

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

, which is approximately 10 km to the southeast. It has developed around the old village of Puyricard, which dates back to medieval times.

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In medieval times Puyricard was part of the fiefdom of the Lords of Baux. Ruins of their ancestral castle, remodelled in the seventeenth century as an episcopal palace by the Archbishop of Aix Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni, are preserved at the present day Chateau Grimaldi. The Romanesque church in the centre of the village dates back to the 11th century and contains an altar from the medieval castle. The town has given its name to a brand of chocolate, well known in France, manufactured locally since 1968 by the Belgian family Roelandts.Website of the Puyricard chocolate factory
/ref> The graduate management school IAE Aix-en-Provence (Institut d'Administration des Entreprises), part of Aix-Marseille University, is located in Puyricard.

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