Digne les bains offer essential natural elements: fresh air, exceptional water and a protected nature it answers thus the ecological concerns of always and more particularly with the townsmen in the search of nature. Worthy is an ideal alternative to tired modern life, at stressed urban cities if polluted.
This thermal spa with the recognized climatic virtues, is insérrée with the crossroads of 3 valleys and has an impressive geological reserve which extends on nearly 150.000 ha (it includes/understands 38 communes). The center of geology (to 4 km of the centre town) proposes exposures, guided tours, research and scientific work on the fossiliferous sites, the fauna and the flora of the reserve.
In the heart of Worthy, the new city is visited while strolling in the street Trou of the Furnace, the rise Saint Charles until Rochas and the cathedral Saint Jérome. A collection of 350 aromatic plants is to be discovered with the botanical garden of Cordeliers in a typical architecture of gardens in squares of the Middle Ages.
One of the most visited sites the Worthy one is of very an other kind: it is the house of Alexandra David Neel. This large voyageuse of the end of XIXème (1868-1969) studied during 25 years with spangled tibétains. Its foundation organizes visits, philosophical teaching and shelters also a shop of craft industry tibétain
To visit:
Cathedral St Jérome. Cathedral ND of the Borough. Museums, walks:
Center exposure of the geological reserve. The Museum of Worthy (Beautiful Arts, natural history). The departmental Museum of Religious art.
Leisures:
Pedestrian excursions. Horsemanship Bathe: Beach arranged on Bléone.
Bathe and navigation with the Lake of Férréols. Fish with the Lake Gaubert. Bicycle touring. Horsemanship. Squash. Tennis. Golf 18 holes. Swimming pool. Hydropathic establishment.
Lodgings:
46 Restaurants. 17 Hotels. 2 camp-sites. Many furnished and lodgings.