The Mont d'Or hill

Panorama on the old city in the shape of a pear and its patinated roofs, the ribbon of the canal lined with cultures and orchards, parallel to the Durance, vast horizons extending on the Luberon, the peak of the Sainte-Victoire, the Sainte-Baume, the Haut-Var, the mount of Aiguines overhanging the Gorges of the Verdon, the first peaks of the Alps.
Symbol of Manosque, the tower of the Mont d'Or is the only vestige of a castle built by William, known as "the liberator". He had a castle built...