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On the dry stone trails<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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A heritage inventory of old dry stone buildings
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This nature walk, 20 miles east of Avignon<\/em>, offers the opportunity to discover the ancestral talents of countryfolk with the amazing rural architecture of\u00a0Gordes\u00a0<\/em>surroundings : dozens of huts and other ancient farm buildings, such as cisterns, vats, ovens, and sheep barns, all built in dry stone. These are the remains of deserted hamlets at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Walking time<\/strong>\u00a0: 3 hours\u00a0
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The remarkable dry stone sheep barns
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This guided hike takes place in a part of Provence away from the tourist route: Montagne de Lure<\/em>. These uplands that nourished the famous writer Jean Giono\u2019s dreams are a district \u201cwhere deserts are really desert lands\u201d, as he wrote: a limitless stretch of land, an area of shepherds, dry stone walls, barrenness and wind. During the walk, you discover several ancestral dry stone building techniques by admiring four sheep barns, more than 150 years old. Two of them are still in very good condition.<\/p>\n

Walking time<\/strong>\u00a0: 6 hours
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\u00a0<\/strong>The land of “aiguiers”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Erosion has dug numerous faults, sinkholes, underground streams and caverns on the huge very thick limestone plate of Monts de Vaucluse<\/em> in which rainwater flows down, leaving behind a very dry land. For centuries men have imagined ingenious systems to survive, carving cisterns out of the rock, often covered by a large vaulted dry stone cap, called “aiguiers”. During this long walk, you’ll have the opportunity to see seven of them. You will also admire two big dry stone huts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A superb example of rural dry stone work:
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This pleasant hike over the small towns of Forcalquier<\/em> and Mane<\/em> in the eastern Luberon<\/em> will allow you to discover a dozen of picturesque traditional dry stone huts, called Cabanons Pointus\u00a0<\/em>in this area and also known as\u00a0bories.<\/em> 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<\/em> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On the dry stone trails \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A heritage inventory of old dry stone buildingsnot far from Gordes \u00a0 This nature walk, 20 miles east of Avignon, offers the opportunity to discover the ancestral talents of countryfolk with the amazing rural architecture of\u00a0Gordes\u00a0surroundings : dozens of huts and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe dry stone trails | En route Provence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Come and discover Provence's outdoors on foot, escorted by a local walking guide, and get the most of its multiple faces : the pretty Provence towns and villages, from Gordes, Roussillon, St-Tropez, Vence or Bormes les Mimosas to St Remy or Les Baux de Provence, lush vineyards, colorful countryside and bright rugged landscapes like those of the Calanques National Park. 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