Roussillon, a village of Provence, the village of Ochers and Colorado

In the middle of Lubéron, classified among the most beautiful villages of France, Roussillon will enchant you by its ochers with the colors changeantes and the heat and the charm of its perched small houses. The history of Roussillon was always related to the natural wealth of which it enjoyed: ocher. Today, it is always the ocher which attracts the tourists: houses painted of ocher framing the small streets with the many tradesmen, or the path of ochers and Colorado Of Provence.

THE VILLAGE: The sinuous central street, which leads to the top of the village, is bordered of, shop art galleries of provençaux products and pretty houses of 17th and 18th centuries. In top, the Saint-Michel church has a beautiful frontage of the 17th century and is next to a cliff from where one has a splendid panorama on 360°, with table of orientation. A market of Provence is held there every Thursday morning.

THE PATH OF OCHERS: For a few hundred meters of the heart of the village, south-eastern side, one should not miss the path of ochers, whose colors go from the yellow to the purple one. This arranged path, marked out and decorated didactic signs, makes it possible to discover the particular flora of the hills as well as the astonishing landscapes formed by the old careers: action of the man but also of erosion carving these needles of the fairies above the famous roadway of the giants. To make it possible to the visitors to measure well the wealth of ochers of Roussillon, an Academy of ochers and pigments applied opened to the public were founded.

THE ACADEMY OF OCHERS: The old ocher Mathieu factory is a center today on materials of the color. The whole of the activities suggested make it possible to discover ochers and the dyes. How is painting manufactured? How does one manufacture the sticks of pastel, santons them, the color of food? The workshops of the Academy of Ochers are as many occasions for the children to discover by the practice the answers to these questions. Teaching and instructive, the academy of ochers is not to be missed for the children and the parents curious to understand the wealth of ocher.
Roussillon is a visit to make at the time of your vacancies in Provence with the camp-site Verguettes.