MOUSTIERS-SAINTE-MARIE – A FRENCH VILLAGE OF EXCESSIVE BEAUTY – MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN FRANCE

📌 Location : MOUSTIERS-SAINE-MARIE , France
Date recorded: August 1:30 PM
Weather: ⛅ 31 °C | 87,8 °F 🌡

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◯ Home page of the MOUSTIERS-SAINE-MARIE tourist-office :
https://www.moustiers.fr/en
https://www.moustiers.fr/en/faience

Discover MOUSTIERS-SAINTE-MARIE, one of the most beautiful and spectacular villages in France

One of the most beautiful villages in France

Since 1981, Moustiers-Sainte-Marie has been listed among the Most Beautiful Villages in France. Church, ramparts, chapels, aqueduct, fountains, alliances of water and stone, pastel tones of tiles and tuff shape a homogeneous and lively architectural ensemble. The gentle way of life that emerges naturally encourages us to respect and enhance this place, to discover it and protect it. The work of the land, perpetrated for centuries, is the link between the history and the future of the village.

Authentic and lively

Today, Moustiers has around 700 inhabitants. The heart of its economy revolves around tourism and the earthenware tradition. The reception capacity in the town is significant. In addition to 750 camping pitches and a holiday village, 130 hotel rooms in the village centre or on the outskirts, around twenty gîtes and guest rooms and more than 50 furnished accommodations, it is easy to discover the local wonders beyond a fleeting crossing. The various services will satisfy all desires and all budgets.

On the commercial side, the shops of artists and craftsmen rub shoulders with local services.

On the food side, around twenty restaurants satisfy gourmets and gourmands, lovers of refined gastronomy, brasseries or local cuisine.

A village anchored in the Verdon Regional Natural Park and the Haute-Provence Geopark.

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie is part of the Verdon Regional Natural Park, spanning the two departments of Var and Alpes de Haute Provence, which extends over 46 municipalities and includes seven large landscape areas. This diversity of ecosystems gives the park a rich and varied natural heritage: vultures, bats, chamois, roe deer and endemic flora. The headquarters of the Verdon Regional Natural Park is located in the municipality of Moustiers.
www.parcduverdon.fr

Gorges du Verdon

Moustiers is also located in the territory of the UNESCO Haute-Provence Geopark. This nature reserve, listed by UNESCO, extends over 60 municipalities in the Alpes de Haute-Provence department. Many natural and geological sites allow you to discover the last 300 million years of Earth’s history.
www.geoparchauteprovence.com

The mountains rock The cliffs on which the village is built and those dominating it formed natural lines of defense, but Moustiers also protected itself behind ramparts as for many villages, built in the Middle Ages.

Pierre de Pratis, commendatory prior, ordered in 1336 the enlargement of the church; the axis of the nave was not respected and we do not know if the prior wanted to incline the choir in the direction of Jerusalem or recall the position of the head of Christ on the cross. The current altar is a fourth century sarcophagus in white marble representing the passage of the Red Sea.

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