Our heritage

Palace of the Counts of Provence - BRIGNOLES Castle - VINS SUR CARAMY Castle and garden - ENTRECASTEAUX Basilica - ST MAXIMIN Royal Convent - ST MAXIMIN Castle and parc - ST MARTIN DE PALLIERES Castellas - FORCALQUEIRET Abbey - LA CELLE Castrum Saint-Jean - ROUGIERS Castle - PONTEVES Castle and old town - CARCES

Collegiale - BARJOLS Kings Way and the Cave - PLAN D'AUPS STE BAUME

Romantic visitors will explore the ruins of beautiful places which were, alas, abandoned over the course of time; they will hunt for vestiges of the old rural middle class, such as the remnants of a rampart, of a mullioned window or of elaborately carved wooden doors...

Inquisitive visitors will go to see the workshops of the craftsmen, the ‘santonniers’ (who make symbolic clay figurines), the ‘faïenciers’ (who work with earthernware), the potters, the tanners, the stone-cutters, and the manufacturers of the traditional Provençal instruments, the three-holed flute and the narrow drum; they will visit the oil mills and the esteemed wine cellars, and they will walk in the footsteps of the ‘red miners’ who extracted bauxite...

Visitors to the countryside will marvel at the ‘restanques’ which shape the landscape, at the magnificent cut-stone walls, at the canals which dart across the land and at the cleverly positioned apiaries…They will cross the medieval bridges and take note of their parapets and their mortice and tenon joints and will then take a rest alongside the ‘lavoirs’ (washing-places), some of which are still in use...

Spiritual visitors will explore the places of worship – churches and chapels erected in the depths of the valleys and on hilltops to mark the faith of a people whose land has been transformed by numerous shifts in population...

No matter which kind of visitor you wish to be, we cordially invite you to learn about our traditions and to appreciate our way of life.

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