Grignan

The visitors go to Grignan to discover, of course, the splendid castle of Mrs. de Sévigné, who was in fact that of her daughter, the countess of Grignan, but also collegial Renaissance where the divine marchioness rests. They then discover a borough of Provence authentic and full with charm. Terrace of the castle, they are filled with wonder at the beauty of the landscapes of Grignan, rhythms by the vines, the lavender, the truffle ones and of immense wooded surfaces. The charming villages of the countries of Grignan, often perched, are revealed during unforgettable walks.
The visitors remain in a hotel trade which goes from the three-star hotels to the lodgings and camp-sites rural, and taste the products of a rich and varied soil. Such are the springs of tourism with Grignan and in the country of Grignan. Tourism for “honest man” could have said the marchioness of Sévigné; i.e. tourism for those and those which like and respect the historical heritage, architectural, natural, landscape and human of this beautiful place of Provence, admirably preserved.

The old fortress, built at the Middle Ages, becomes in the XVI century the largest castle of the Rebirth of south-east.

Its extension to the XVII century in fact " one of the most beautiful antiques of France".

The presence of Mrs. de Sévigné and her daughter, the countess of Grignan, the privileged place that they hold for him in their correspondence, the power of the count François de Castellane Adhémar de Monteil, make a high place of the regional history of it.

An opened landscape, where the holm oak, the cade, the broom and the thyme of the hills dispute it with the cultures: vine, lavender and truffle, with in the distance, big spaces wooded from where emergent, in the south and the east, the tops of Préalpes of the south: the Mount-Ventoux, laces of Montmirail, the mountain of the Lance and with the west, beyond the valley of the Rhone, the mounts of Ardeche.

A ground with the colors and the scents of Provence, offering a broad pallet of products of the soil to be discovered and taste in any season.

An preserved inheritance now, as well as the historical heritage, by the inscription of the site of Grignan in a protection zone of the architectural, urban and landscape heritage (ZPPAUP), including the natural landscapes and the agrarian landscape, for a respectful approach of the identity of the village, of our memory and our future.

The dry stone is a technique of construction making it possible to draw up walls without use of binder or mortar.

It is an art to build several times millenium, attested at the time protohistoric (strengthened sites height of the Bronze Age, oppida of the age of iron), still present at the Middle Ages and largely widespread at the XVIII and XIX centuries, with most extremely of the agrarian development, with the development of the new grounds to the margins of the village agglomerations.

The épierrage of the grounds provided a material abundant and immediately available for the construction of the surrounding walls, walls retaining of the field terraces, huts or bories.

Which future for the stone works dries? The walls and the huts out of stone dries are a component of the landscapes of the country of Grignan. These structures, now forsaken by agriculture, must be preserved. .

Knowledge, the maintenance and the restoration of this inheritance of proximity are one of the stakes of the protection of the inheritance and the valorization of the agrarian landscapes: landscape environment of the residential districts périurbains, rural lodging, development of the activities of leisure in rural area, discovery and hiking trails, etc