Tourism Moustiers-Sainte-Marie

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie is located in the Alpes de Haute Provence, at the entrance of the Grand Canyon du Verdon. This village is classified as one of the most beautiful villages in France.

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie is known worldwide for pottery. The village produced since the Middle Ages and techniques have evolved into an earthenware quality, very fine, with unique backgrounds.

This village is one place where the air is pure. You can soak up the superb combination of air, land and water as he approached the great lake of Sainte-Croix, which extends over 2,200 hectares.

Although the village was built in the hollows of cliffs formed of natural defenses, it also features walls to increase its protection. Thus the heart of this cocoon, tourists can walk in peace in all the small roads that its regularly punctuated by the presence of small drinking water fountains. They will also discover the little squares on which there are superb wash once used by the washerwomen.

Sights of Moustier-Sainte-Marie

• Archaeological museum was founded in 1930
• Parish church of Notre Dame
• Notre-Dame-de-Beauvoir
• Clastre chapel, Gothic thirteenth-fourteenth centuries
• Museum of earthenwar