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Musée
Promenade de la Réserve Naturelle Géologique
de Haute Provence:
Located in Digne-les-Bains (30 km from the Old Walls).
Away from downtown, a building steeped in history, perched
on a hill of tufa, houses the exhibition halls of Promenade
Museum (geology, contemporary art and temporary exhibitions).
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The Butterfly Garden:
Located in Digne-les-Bains (30 km from the Old Walls).
The Butterfly Garden is located at 650 m altitude at the
northern end of Digne-les-Bains, on the right bank of
the river Bléone. It is part of Museum Drive Site
Reserve Géologique de Haute-Provence. At the edge
of the Mediterranean climate and Alpine this green oasis
is home to nearly 500 plant species at the foot of the
mountain Salmon. What explains the exceptionally rich
in butterflies.
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Musée
Gassendi:
Located in Digne-les-Bains (29 km from the Old Walls).
Created in 1889, the museum occupies since 1909 the premises
of a former hospital of the sixteenth century. It has
collections developed over more than a century in the
field of art, history and science. Each large room is
introduced by a "cabinet". It makes the link
between the historical period and made local history embodied
by a character.
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Cultural
Center Alexandra David-Neel:
Located in Digne-les-Bains (29 km from the Old Walls).
The cultural center Alexandra David-Neel, comprising the
museum Alexandra David-Neel, was created in 1977 after
the death of the famous explorer who lived in Digne about
thirty years. Guided tours and tours of the house of Alexandra
David-Neel are held every day of the year, 10h, 14h and
15h30 clear (about 2h)
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Museum Salagon:
Located Mane (29 km from Old Walls).
Located in Mane, near Forcalquier priory Salagon (listed
building) constitutes one of the monumental complex of
the Middle Ages the most notable of Haute Provence. It
houses since 1981, the Conservatory of ethnological heritage
of Haute Provence.
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Museum
of Prehistory:
Located in Quinson (80 km from the Old Walls).
The Museum of Prehistory is located inside the territory
of the Natural Park of Verdon, opened its doors in 2001.
Multimedia techniques most modern and hyper-realistic
reconstructions give life dramatically exposed the collections,
mostly original pieces from excavations in the 1960s by
H. Lumley, J. Courtin and C. Lagrand. Headphones and audio-guide
kiosks allow, at any age, a visit that also instructive
fun.
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The Museum of the Sirens and Fossils (Castellane,
1h15 from Vieux Murs)
Go back in time 40 million years with the Museum of Fossils
and sirens, when the sea covered the region Castellane.
In the peaceful lagoons evolved marine mammals: Sirenia
(manatees family). Perhaps the origin of the myth of mermaids,
their story is told using animal models size, films and
videos reconstructions of landscapes.
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L'Occitane
(Manosque)
Please go to the L'Occitane factory situated in Manosque,
free tours and tours are held Monday through Friday morning.
And also get 10% off entire store.
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François
Doucet Confectioner (Prayer -- 15 km from the Old
Walls)
Confectionery shop in the heart of prayer in the last cassoir
almonds still in use, François Doucet Confectioner
uses all local resources such as almonds from Provence,
Provence apricot, figs Var and clementines from Corsica
to you taste the best pastries, sweets, chocolate and delicatessens.
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L'Ecomusée
de Volx
The Ecomuseum Volx
Located Volx (20 km from the Old Walls).
Interactive tools and audiovisual sensory activities and
fun ... From room to room for all audiences, Olive is revealed
to the senses. Biology of the tree to its mythology, and
traditional manufacture of soap from the exercise protocol
of the tasting, each step of the way is an invitation to
travel. On the big screen, harvesters Provence, Spain, Greece
or Lebanon harvest their fruits and carry them to the mill.
When the film is finished, you can sit on a bench, listen
to the music of words that creates the tree, the stories
of travelers and poets of the Olivier.
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Lavender
Roads
To find fields of lavender bloom which lasts from mid-June
to mid-July, you can browse routes described on this page
des
Routes de la Lavande.
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Les Gorges du Verdon
In the extreme south of the Alpes de Haute-Provence,
1h30 drive from Old Walls, the Gorges du Verdon is one of
the most beautiful sites in Europe.
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Le
Lac de Sainte-Croix
The
same size as Lake Annecy, Lake St. Croix is an artificial
lake whose dam was built in 1975. From a deep blue, the
lake is at 1:15 of the Old Walls Road. You can rent pedal
boats, electric boats and canoes for exploring the lake
and the entrance of the Gorges du Verdon.
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Le
Plateau de Valensole
Only
20 minutes from Old Walls is the Tea Valensole: flat as
the plains, but at an altitude of about 700 m. Lavender
fields occupy the field of sight, occasionally interspersed
with fields of truffle oaks. Do not miss: the lavender
bloom from mid-June and mid-July.
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Le
Lac d'Allos
Located
at an altitude of 2.230 m, Lac d'Allos is the largest
mountain lake in Europe located at this altitude. Access
is from a car (1h45 drive from Old Walls), an easy path
to walk 45 minutes (the access road is closed in winter
and regulated in July and August). A shelter located on
the shores of lake lets you restore (only open in summer).
The landscape is beautiful and marmots are common in this
region.
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The
Mercantour National Park
The Mercantour National Park since 1979, protects a vast
area of mountain wilderness that stretches from the Mediterranean
Sea until Ubaye. The park is open for hiking.
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Of course, Aix en Provence (45 minutes by motorway)
The visit of Aix en Provence is an invitation to travel
through time. Its architectural and cultural heritage
is accessible to all. Just walk to discover its riches.
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The
village of Les Mees -- Penitents (5 km from the
Old Walls)
This place owes its reputation for strong rocks that stand
over 100 meters high on the town. They are called Penitents
Mées because of their shape, according to legend,
they represent the monks of the Lure mountain that have
been petrified (literally) by Saint Donat time Saracen
invasions for being in love beautiful young women a Moorish
nobleman was brought to a crusade. The rocks actually
look like a procession of hooded monks their pointed hoods
that are seemingly so ashamed of their desires if one
knows the legend ...
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Markets weekly are the ideal places to get local
products, souvenirs and gifts. The main market is that
of Forcalquier which takes place every Monday morning.The
main weekly markets are the following:
* Monday: Forcalquier.
* Tuesday: Oraison
* Wednesday: Digne-les-Bains & Riez
* Friday: Moustiers-Sainte-Marie.
* Saturday: Digne-les-Bains, Riez and Sisteron.
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The
center Jean Giono
Jean Giono never left his hometown, Manosque, whose name
is associated worldwide with the work of this extraordinary
writer. Also the municipality of that city created does
in 1992 on the initiative of the Association of Friends
of Jean Giono and Family Giono, a cultural space to promote
the work of the writer. Not far from this place of emotional
memory that seem to represent the (home of Giono), Jean
Giono Center, housed in a beautiful mansion of the eighteenth
century, is both a repository of the work and a place of
animations and creations.
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Lurs
It's a nice little road that runs through the
beautiful hills of the Luberon you reach the village quietly
Lurs perched above the valley of the Durance on a rocky
green.
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Monastery
Ganagobie
Since 1992, the walls of the Priory of Ganagobie were
recovered and the Benedictine Hautecombe came here to
lead the monastic life in the spirit of St. Benedict and
Don Guéranger.
If you are lucky enough to arrive on the set one afternoon
winter you may see the blinding light of the sun projected
against the church and monastery and to sing the beautiful
stone soft sumptuous blaze gold. For Cluniac monks pray
and work the earth, stone, stained glass, painting or
illumination, equivalent to transforming the world, to
make it in the likeness of God, the closer to God, to
reconcile with him.
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Pays
de Forcalquier
In the Country of Forcalquier, every stone bears witness
to the presence of the millennium man. This map of the
ancient Domitian Way, perched villages of medieval, Romanesque
churches and chapels, castles, farms and wealthy peasants.
Priory Salagon seat of Prefectural Museum ethnological
than Ganagobie, the Rotunda Simiane Sauvan the Castle,
go to the discovery of a unique heritage!
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Castle
Sauvan
This eighteenth century castle is classified a historical
monument since 1957. The park, which has been awarded
the "Remarkable Garden" in 2005 by the
Ministry of Culture, is protected under the Historic
Monuments since July 30, 2003.
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Saint-Michel
l'Observatoire
Saint-Michel
l'Observatoire turns to the stars. Nearly Forcalquier
in Parc Naturel Régional du Luberon, this site
invites contemplation of the sky and the discovery of
the universe. It is also an active place of research with
hundreds of astronomers and scientists each year on mission
at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence. In this region
with an exceptional number of nights cleared, the Department
of Alpes de Haute-Provence was founded in 1998, the Center
for Astronomy.
2009: International Year of Astronomy.
Located in the heart of acres of oaks and scrub, it provides
a mission to disseminate scientific culture by hosting
more than 10 000 visitors per year. The site of Saint-Michel
l'Observatoire, rich in natural heritage, is a place where
intersect and complement basic research and knowledge
transfer, practical observations and poetry of space.
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SISTERON
"
Porte de Provence" flower city of 8000 inhabitants,
485 meters, 135 km from Marseille and Grenoble, 180 km from
Nice, the birthplace of poet Paul Arene(1843-1896).
On the Route Napoleon, near the Durance, SISTERON Ongoing
nurturing is a stop between the Alps and the sea "by
a country ends, another begins" and marks the transition
between Provence and Dauphiné. Sisteron, a strange
city by its beauty, light, color.
A city by its unusual history which turns happiness and
misery, glory and misery. An unusual city with its many
monuments, rich, unusual. : This is an especially picturesque
walled city, for its natural location along the gorge of
the Durance attracts and retains the look.
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ROUTE AND TOURS, GUIDE TO COUNTRY
Discover the Alpes de Haute-Provence through these routes:
Route Lavender Route des Grandes Alpes Route Napoleon
... or accompanied by Country Guides.
Villages perched chapels isolated heart of the wildest
landscapes, local produce to artisan villages ... they
invite you on a journey like no other. Thanks to their
circuitry "day" Discover the Alpes de Haute-Provence
off the beaten track.
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