A beautiful example of rural dry stone masonry:
huts in Pays de Forcalquier
This pleasant hike over the small towns of Forcalquier and Mane in the eastern Luberon will allow you to discover a dozen of picturesque traditional dry stone huts, called Cabanons Pointus in this area and also known as bories. These rural buildings are one of the richest treasure troves of dry stone architecture in the Mediterranean countries and one part of Provence cultural heritage. Their walls are made out of stones held together without any mortar and their roofing of flakes of limestone called lauzes without a single wooden beam. If most of them were built in the 19th c., the construction techniques go back as far as the Iron Age.
Walking time : 6 hours
Rating : moderate