The lavender fields of the Valensole plateau
Lavender is inseparable from Provence, seducing the senses with its special colour and bewitching fragrance. The Valensole plateau is a poetic and magical painting, with its lavender fields unfurling to the horizon. It adorns itself with its characteristic purple mantle in the months of June and July.
Geological Nature Reserve of Haute-Provence
The soil of the Reserve is a veritable open-air book that preserves in the rock the memory, over several hundreds of millions of years, of the evolution of life: fossils of ammonites, sirenians, ichtyosaurs (marine reptiles reminiscent of dolphins)…
A remarkable rural heritage
In the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, each valley has a story to tell. Several museums invite you to discover this heritage. During your visits, discover the ecomuseum of the Sisteronais Country in Sisteron, the house of the Bois de Méolans-Revel, the Ubaye Valley Museum in Barcelonnette, the ecomuseum of the Bugade in Seyne-les-Alpes, the house of the Bois de Méolans-Revel…