The best running trails around Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

tranquility. hiking and reading about local history at every turn and ruin... from the Gallo-Romans, to the medieval, to the revolution... to the present day... fascinating

Fortunately, it is now a listed building

Absolutely worth seeing cave village

It's definitely worth it because of the view...

It would be nice to live here!

An unusual site, clinging to the hillside, the troglodyte village of Barry is a vulnerable site, currently closed to the public by municipal decree. To discover it, take the path that goes around it, without entering it!

In Vaucluse, the sites are more concentrated, more numerous and more diversified, Bollène has two troglodyte hamlets, ancient medieval villages. In the first, at Chabrières, where the habitat is completely ruined by collapses, the development was done by digging the so-called safre of Saint-Restitut, at the foot of the castrum. The second, Barry, inhabited until the 18th century, has dry stone facades protecting a complete layout entirely dug into the rock (kitchen, fireplace, sink stack, vegetable garden for heating food, alcoves, stable, stable, sheepfold, cellar, cistern, etc.)[19]. In the lower Durance valley, in the cliffs of the southern foothills of the Luberon, the sites of Jas de Puyvert and Cabrières-d'Aigues show an ewer and a washhouse. At the heart of the Luberon massif, in the Aigue Brun valley, the Moulin-Clos cliff was built in the 5th century with hermit cells for the Cassianist monks of the Saint-Victor abbey in Marseille and, the fort of Buoux has a part entirely dug into the rock, the bastides of Beaumes and Chantebelle and the hamlet of Aiguiers in Sivergues also have troglodyte structures. In the Calavon valley, three castles in the Apt region present a large part of the troglodyte infrastructure. These are the castles of Milles, Roquefure and Rocher des Druides which, despite its name, is a medieval fort designed to accommodate troops, horsemen and mounts[20].

The first study on the troglodityque habitat of Provence dates from 1987-1988 under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and carried out by André-Yves Dautier with the technical assistance of the Luberon regional natural park[14]. This habitat was inventoried in two categories. The first corresponds to the digging in the safres[N 1] of the Miocene of rock shelters, intended for habitat and agricultural use such as the caves of Calès, in Lamanon, occupied from prehistory to the 15th century, of the Baou de Saint -Chamas, built in 1615, from the villages of Barry and Chabrières, to Bollène. The second category is linked to the occupation of natural caves dug by erosion in the Urgonian limestone (karst) and whose facade protection is ensured by dry stone walls. This use, sometimes long-term, was most often due to pastoralism, with shepherds sheltering the flocks there. In Vaucluse, this habitat is mainly found in the valleys of the Monts de Vaucluse and the Luberon.