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Les trois Châteaux du Pays d'Aigues en Luberon



Regarding to their History, what strikes immediately is the perfect similarity of their origin. All properties of Forcalquier’s Counts, then Sabran’s family, who won’t leave Ansouis ever, the three of them were medieval castles transformed during the Renaissance to answer to the approval of the private life, all of them brought down in the XIXth century by the disuse, even almost the ruin for the ones in Lourmarin and La Tour d’Aigues, their fate leads them today, at the dawn of their thousandth anniversary, to link up so that none of their hosts visit one without visiting the others, going through our beautiful villages of this side of Luberon called Pays d’Aigues, all over the roads of their very old History.


Le château d'Ansouis

At first fortress, residence since XII th century of Duke de Sabran de Pontevès, the Castle of Ansouis became in the course of century one of the most magnificent inhabited houses of Provence: a magnificent collection of piece of furniture of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century, of beautiful tapestries, vast gardens and terraces surrounding the castle of a green setting give to the whole site a lot of charm.

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Le château de La Tour d'Aigues

Situated in the heart of the village of the Tower of Aigues, dominating the shaded place, it doubtless constituted the grandest testimony of the architecture deprived of the Renaissance. It is place of show and exposures. Every summer, the festival programs high-level artists international.

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Le château de Lourmarin

Nicknamed the " Villa Medicis of Provence ", the castle of Lourmarin, majestic together of the Renaissance, was just saved in 1920 from the destruction and restored by a sponsor become loving of the building. Nowadays it welcomes artists in residence and Classic festival of music the summer.

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Abbaye de Saint Eusèbe

Classified as "Historic Monument", the Abbey Holy Eusèbe opens to you today. It is in the heart of a small valley, situated in the East and at feet of a rock of Saignon that is the ancient Abbey Benedictine Saint-Eusèbe, historic site of the village of Saignon.

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