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Cemetery (classified site), Mourres (together of rocks carved by erosion) Museum (fossils, vestiges and earthenware), Cathedral XIII, XV & XVIIéme, old Houses in the hurdy-gurdy city, Citadel.

The CONVENT OF the CORDELIERScouvent-cordelier downtown Brood franciscain built in XIIIè century, and altered in XVIIè and XIXè centuries, restored in the Sixties.

 

 

 

PRIORESS OF GANAGOBIE (15 km) classified Historic building, Clunisien Priory founded towards the XI3rd, century, shelters a Romance church, a Romance mosaic of Eastern inspiration is visible in the apse, cloister Romanesque art of XIIIe century. Benedictines of Holy Marie Madeleine

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PRIORESS OF CARLUC with Céreste (20 km) Necropolis cut in the rock, priory of XIIème S. Carluc, " rock and timbered place " étymologiquement, shelters a source which never dries up under the rock. The atmosphere encourages with the meditation and serenity. According to some, it was a place of worship druidic.carluc

sauvanCASTLE OF SAUVAN with Mane (4km) Surnomé " small Trianon of Provence ", one of the rare examples of classical architecture in Provence, entirely furnished, to visit.

NOTRE DAME DE LURE with Saint Etienne the organ (15 km)Construite in deepest loneliness, in the heart of a forest solid mass, founded in 1165, this old chalaisienne abbey shelters a splendid shaded terrace of limes, walnut trees and beeches, located on the southern slope of the mountain of lure, climax of the area, exceptional panorama, completely different vegetation on the 2 slopes, ski in season

simianeROTUNDA with Simiane (35 km) Keep?(fin XIIè S.) comprising on the floor a superb Romance room decorated of twelve niches with carved capitals and surmounted by a cupola whose twelve veins are connected to the central oculus.

PRIORESS OF SALAGON with Mane (3 km)Ancian bénédictine abbey of XIIè century converted into . With the accesses of the priory, installation in botanical gardens, medieval, the simple ones, scents...