Stage of the Napoleon Road, between Dauphiné and Provence, at the border of the National park of the Jewel cases, it is one of the rare medieval boroughs of the French Alps, which could easily appear in the prize list of the most beautiful villages of the Alps, even of France.

The amateurs of inheritance will spend several hours to visit its "district of the 16th century": place at Grasses and place of the Tower with its Market, roofed passageways and fountains, mazes of shaded lanes, roofs of tiles very pleasant punts to the eye, doors old in drowning massive, old wrought iron signs…

The typical house of St Bonnet in Champsaur comprises one rez of roadway reserved to the trade or the stables and a first stage with housing, the last being used as barn.

You will notice the stones posed along the frontages: called "buttarodes" (or hillocks wheels), they was used to prevent the wheels of carts from damaging the frontages. Just as "ring them" are rings as one used to attach the horses.

If you admire superb "the Place with Grasses, with arcades (or" tounes"), which releases an atmosphere envoûtante, will know that these arcades were used for the grooming of the horses, in rainy weather, as testifies to them the metal rings in the walls. The Grenette place, as for it, was reserved for the market with the grains: the market goes back to 1843, it sheltered the market as well as the carts with hay. The old woman tower dates from the 16th century, just like the imposing well, which was a long time the only drinking water point of the village: one drew there water with a cord until the end of the 19th century!