LeVillage of the Baux of Provence is located at the heart of Alpilles on a rocky outcrop with 245m. overhanging flat crau, Arles, the Camargue and Alpilles for echappé have crowd it is advised of borrowed the paths which will lead you in the pine forest and the garrigues alpilles and will offer to you panoramic sights on all Provence D ' Avignon in Nimes while passing by Arles,
The village is classified "one of the most beautiful villages of France",
This stone immense and superb fortress is without question one of the must of Provence!
The village is discovered with foot: old houses restored with taste and talent, of beautiful frontages Rebirth and private mansions, the museum of history of the Beams
The Citadel of the Beams located at the end of the village is impossible to circumvent. The site extends on 7 hectares and makes it possible to discover the principal vestiges of the tumultuous past of the Beams of Provence: ruins of the medieval castle, vault castrale, exposures of machines of war, keep, turn sarrasine… of the village have overhangs the mysterieux small valley "the Valley of hell"
inhabited as of the age of bronze, the Beams of Provence develop really only at the time medieval.
Set up with Xe century, the fortress and the city which it shelters are led during five centuries by the Lords of the Beams, with the c?ur of ceaseless conflicts, devastating Provence.
In XVe century, the turbulent lords of the Beams make place to the barons of the House of the Counts de Provence. The Castle of the Beams knows a period ostentation then and passes then under suzerainty
At the outside of the village, do not miss the permanent spectacle of the Cathedral of Image, located in old career, audio-visual fairyhood projected on 4.000m2 of rock faces in own way of giant screens… Impressionnant