2024

THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN TOWER

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4.8/5
• 4 reviews
The tower beautifully lit at night and overlooking Manosque. Read more
 Manosque, 04100
2024

THE CASTLE OF THE TEMPLARS

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4/5
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The Templars' castle, classified by the Monuments Historiques in 1840, now ... Read more
 Gréoux-Les-Bains, 04800
2024

THE CASTLE OF SAUVAN

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The Sauvan castle offers an exceptional testimony of the art of living in ... Read more
 Mane, 04300
2024

CASTLE OF ESPARRON

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This castle is remarkable for its impressive keep, its monumental spiral ... Read more
 Esparron-De-Verdon, 04800
2024

CHÂTEAU

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With its imposing silhouette and its two towers, it is difficult to miss! Obviously built after the medieval period, in rolled pebbles from the Durance, it was largely reworked by the De Fulque family, originally from Valensole and owner of the Marquisate of Oraison from 1720 onwards. This family kept it more or less until the Revolution and the building was devastated in 1792. It was then raised by one floor and transformed into a silkworm farm. Louis Pasteur was ordered by the State to come here in 1868 to study the silkworm disease called pebrine.

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 Oraison, 04700