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WELCOME TO SIMIANE LA ROTONDE ALPS FROM HIGHT PROVENCE SOUTH OF FRANCE 360° VIRTUAL TOUR Copyright 2004-2008-photos-video- visites virtuelles à 360° -J M -
With 24km in north east of Apt by D22 in direction of Banon.
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This splendid small village is perched on a hill surrounded by fields of lavender, between the country of Forcalquier and Luberon.
Classified as "quoted of character", the village has a historical rich person inheritance and will make you discover very beautiful architectural curiosities which date from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Du strong castle of the seigneuriale family of Simiane-Agoult, it remains today the rotunda of the XII° which dominates the village of the top of its hillock. This rotunda is presented in the form of a broad keep of almost round form with an immense arched ceiling. Restored recently, it accomodates every summer a festival of old music.
Formerly, Simiane the Rotunda was a prosperous city, some large residences and private mansions of the old village testify some still today. The covered markets (XVI°), the few gravers and stalls of shop let suppose animation of the commercial life which reigned then in Simiane.
The village of Simiane the Rotunda dominated by the giant of Provence the Ventoux Mount
While walking you in the streets of the village, you will cross beautiful frontages, doors carve and of the delicately worked windows. Gardens and terraces were arranged with the accesses of certain lanes and will allow you to appreciate splendid panoramas on the blue fields of lavender. It should be stressed that Simiane was a long time the regional capital of the lavender and remains today still a significant center of production.
You will appreciate any sound of it charms with flowering with its immense blue extents which, as of the fallen night, will scent your spangled nights of summer
To visit:
Rotunda of the XII°. Ste. Victoire Church, XII°. Gate of the house of the Coubine painter.
Old covered markets.
Leisures:
Pedestrian excursions. Guided tour of the village.