The valleys of Buëch are tilted perpendicular to the remainder of the solid mass, offering these uneven which the hikers like so much, and these contrasts ubac/adret which allows all botanical imaginations. Some are found also sometimes at the top of a fold, as in the circus of Jubéo, paradise of the geographers and the walkers.
Inhabited since -3800 front years J.C., occupied by the Gallic ones on the hills, annexed by the Romans then by the Francs, invaded by the Barbarians until the reconquest of Provence, strengthened by the Counts of Provence and crossroads impossible to circumvent of the opening of the Italian Rebirth, Serrois is destroyed first once by Richelieu during the wars of religion, and lately by the rural migration which rarefies the economic resources, but leaves an intact nature and savage who makes the happiness of our visitors.
The inhabitants of Buëch and Serrois developed tourist infrastructures adapted to the new natural passion of the leisures. Beaconing of hundreds of kilometers of hiking trails, pedestrian, equestrian, VTT, cliff installation of climbing, via ferrata, sharp water levels and integrated basin, construction of air platforms and sites of takeoff for deltists and parapentists, protection of the rivers of 1st category for fishing.
Here, nature is queen. At each seasons its pleasures, snow in winter, odorous orchards in spring for all the excursions, a hot summer for the festive bathes and evenings, an autumn with the mushroom scents and walks in forest.
Hills sunny and scented with the lavender out of Right Bank of Buëch, mountains of Veynois and the Durance, left bank… Since the Laragnais-Valley of Méouge in the south, with its perched villages, its provençaux orchards and its markets until high Buëch with north, its sundials and its covered with snow peaks, the country of Buëch is an area of contrasts which makes hyphen between the Alps and Provence.
Far from tourist flows there, you will find a climate perfect, at the same time Mediterranean, sunny and already alpine, an authentic nature - forests of soft inclined coniferous tree, throats, torrents and rivers - an architecture still of Provence, as testify some the round tiles “channel” which cap its roofs, and even an interesting inheritance (habitat of the Stone Age of the collar of Tourettes, Château of Montmaur, Prieuré of Saint-Andrew de Rosans etc).
Since the beginning of the 19th century, the lavender is a tradition in Buëch: oil of lavender that one harvest is certified there “label of origin of High-Provence”. The amateurs of scents enivrantes will visit the distilling of Rosans or that of Faurie, close to Aspres-on-Buëch: for any knowledge on the essential manufacture of oils
