THE CHARTREUSE DE BONPAS
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La Chartreuse is now a wine tourism site. In the early Middle Ages, this place was called "Maupas" (bad steps), because merchants and pilgrims were often robbed by bands of bandits. As soon as they arrived in the 12th century, the religious restored order there and Maupas then became Bonpas. Watching over the passage of the Durance, it belonged successively to the Pontifical Friars, then to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, and finally, from 1318, to the Carthusians by decision of Pope John XXII (the second of the seven popes who succeeded each other in Avignon) who had the church, the cloister and cells built. During the Revolution, this building was partially destroyed, but it still looked good with its French gardens, its chapel Notre-Dame de Bonpas (12th century, listed) and its double 14th century fortified gate.
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