Gréoux-les-bains

• The Rampart of XIII

The first rampart of Gréoux skirts the street of Vière. It protected only the Castle and its dependences, the houses of the village were built beyond this belt. The door called " old horloge" because a clock had been installed at the XVIII century, constitutes the most beautiful vestige of this rampart. Castelet (located just behind the door) was a whole of constructions where intendance and right-hand men of the lord placed.

• The Rampart of XVI

The lord of Gréoux authorizes the community to build a rampart which this time includes all the city - contrary to the first rampart - in order to secure the population of the possible travellers carrying the germ of the plague which devastated the close villages.

There do not remain today that the door of Valensole of visible.

The street of the ramparts takes again part of this layout.

Museum of the Miniatures, the Headstocks and the Toys.

Your childhood found with toys for girls and boys. 148mises in scene on the life, the history and the school, of the Middle Ages at our days. Headstocks and their house furnished, with the tin soldiers and electric trains.

To envisage approximately two hours visit for the impassioned imaginary, the dream and the beauty of the miniatures, the toys and the headstocks. (Authorized Photographs and films)

This Museum - Workshop proposes also training courses of leisures free for all, adult or children to you all the year, individual or groups.

The network of excursions is adapted to all the levels, strolls easy one hour around Gréoux with the sporting excursion. The coursesmove through olive-trees, lavender, scrubland, lakes and throats. A graduate guide of State also proposes each week various courses and excursions to initiate you with this preserved nature and this inheritance.

• Tuesday Nature

Trott sets of themes, ludic and teaching, accessible to all, the neighbourhoods of Gréoux: with the meeting of the beaver, edible wild plants, Channel of the Verdon, Plate of Valensole, on the ways of transhumance…

• Thursdays Discovered

Excursions on the paths of the most picturesque sites of the surroundings: Summits of Montdenier or Large Luberon, Throats of Trévans, Moustiers Sainte-Marie, Canyon of Oppedette, Bridge of Mirabeau…

• Sundays Passion

Convivial days in the middle of the remarkable sites of the area, dedicated to unconditional of the excursion: Mountain of Lure, Holy-Victoire, Mourre Negro, Martel Path, Blackcurrant Creeks…