| PAYS DE FORCALQUIER ET MONTAGNE DE LURE
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“Savoir-vivre” of the inhabitants
While strolling on the
market of Forcalquier: monday morning. In the whole city, the market
spread out its perfumes and its colors. It is the traditional point
of meeting between the producers, craftsmen and the inhabitants
coming from the four corners of the Pays de Forcalquier.
Farming,
bee-keeping, stockbreeding, forestry, and the gathering of medicinal
and aromatic herbs have always been a part of the life of the Pays
de Forcalquier.
Farming accounts for a large part of the activity in most of the
communes and varies according to the location. On the southern
slopes of the Montagne de Lure - a dry, forested zone - sheep- and
goat-breeding predominate along with the growing of lavender and
other perfume plants... Further south and at a lower altitude, the
Forcalquier plain and the sector of Reillanne, at the foot of the
Luberon chain, irrigated farming gives produce such as cereals,
flowers, vegetable farming : melons, courgettes, lettuce...).
Local producers focus on quality and authenticity.
The Christmas
tradition : crib with its “santons”, the Large Supper and the
thirteen desserts, Nadalet in the chime, the Pays de Forcalquier and
Montagne de Lure is deeply marked by the traditions of Christmas.
To observe the purest
sky of Europe
At the
top of the Montagne de Lure where the first observatory was
installed in the XVIIth century by Wendelin or in the 13 cupolas of
the observatory installed in 1936 in Saint-Michel by CNRS or in the
astronomy centre which proposes all the year animations around
astronomy.
More information : www.centre.astro.fr
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