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Château d'Oraison was certainly built after the medieval period.

In the Middle Ages, four gates located at the four cardinal points provided access to the town. The southern gate, known as the Saunerie ("salt ...

Listed as a historic monument and located in the heart of the Provencal garrigue, the cave is a 1h15-minute walk from the Musée de préhistoire des ...

This is one of the city's oldest fountains.

A niche is a reinforcement made in the thickness of a wall to hold a statue, and only appeared around the 15th century. In Roman times, they were used...

Recent research places the octroi in front of the Porte de la Saunerie. This square was created by demolishing old buildings where the control of ...

The small stone bridge over the Rancure torrent, built in 1698, served as an aqueduct to bring drinking water from the Boucharde spring to the village...

This vaulted drinking fountain has a basin measuring 2.80 meters. Located on an old Oraison - Digne road, it was used to quench the thirst of several ...

This is the only vestige of the Château de La Brillanne, and the 180° view over the Durance Valley is well worth a visit. It was restored in ...

A plaque indicates that the writer Jean Giono was born in this house in March 1895. He lived all his childhood and youth in the house in front of ...

Nestled between the cultivated plains around the Durance river and the pine and oak hills, this ancient Gallo-Roman town boasts a rare heritage: a ...

Oraison is one of the only towns in France to have all its downtown streets named after people who died in the First and Second World Wars.

An oratory is a small chapel built on the site of an event considered miraculous, or to preserve a religious memory. There are 5 oratories in ...

An imposing half-feudal (13th-century keep), half-Renaissance building, listed as a Historic Monument, as is its park. A landmark of Provencal ...

This rather late building (13th / 14th century) was consecrated in 1372. Romanesque in its lower structures, the church is Gothic in its su...

The fountain dates from 1963

This promenade is located on the old "chemin de ronde" ("bàrri" means rampart in Provencal).