Things to see and do Vitrolles

The Roman route, linking Arles to Briançon, passed through Vitrolles. Today, there is still the old trail called "The Railway Trail" which indicates the direction of the road. Unlike what one might think, this path passed on the flank of the mountains, at relatively high height, not on the edge of the Durance. 

It is on a nipples near the village you will find the ruins of the old Seigneurial castle of Vitrolles called the Châtelart. It was formerly composed of two parts. The first, older, was only a tower, built with a well-appareillées cubic stone and camée on the highest point of the hill in the th century. Below you will see a large construction of the th century whose plan appears to have been an elongated parallelogram with a round tower at each angle. In the th century it will be added a building body that saillie on the facade. On a mound, near the Plan-de-Vitrolles, the remains of a castle built in small stones reign, as well as the debris of an old castle on the sides of the adjacent mountain. An elevation crowned by the beautiful ruins of the convent of Donzard, formerly belonging to the Templar, is visible to the north-west of the church of Upper Vitrolles. See also: the church of the Plan Plan, dedicated to the nativity, and the church of Vitrolles, dedicated to Saint Michel.