The plateau d'Albion: « Jean Giono's land »    

A natural area located between Mont-Ventoux, the Lure Mountain and the Monts-de-Vaucluse.

Area of open land with its typical Provencal villages, its churches and chapels of the Romanesque era and its large farms - sheep breeding and mixed-farming... an exceptional rural landscape of great beauty. Jean Giono spoke of this superb area in several of his novels: “Jean le Bleu", "Regain", "Un de Baumugnes", "Que ma Joie Demeure" portraying the main characters based on inhabitants of this area which he called "Le Pays Bleu" (The blue land).
 

During the warmer months of the 1930’s, in Contadour, a few kilometres from Revest-du-Bion, Jean Giono held regular evening meetings around a campfire under the clear starry night with his “disciples”, together dreaming of a peaceful world.

Discover these sites, villages and monuments as well as the inhabitants of Albion who have preserved its ancestral identity and warm welcome, following a route marked out by Sault Lagarde-d’Apt - Saint-Christol - Simiane-la-Rotonde - Revest-du-Bion – Le Contadour, commune of Redortiers - Ferrassières - Saint Trinit - Aurel, from where you will be able to continue on your path of discovery, either in the direction of Vaison-la-Romaine by the Vallée-du-Toulourenc, or in the direction of Carpentras through Sault and les Gorges de la Nesque, or in the direction of Apt and the Luberon through Sault and Gordes, or in the direction of the Gorges du Verdon through Forcalquier and Manosque.