Claps de Luc et Saut Drôme

In 1442, a limestone landslide of about two million cubic metres broke away from the slope and blocked the bed of the Drôme at two points, forming the Petit Lac downstream and the Grand Lac upstream. This chaos of rocky blocks, called Claps (from the Occitan clapas, "heap of stones"), is today a protected site where the river slips between the rocks before forming the Saut de la Drôme. The lakes gradually silted up into marshes, drained in the eighteenth century by the Carthusian monks of Durbon. Shaded by pines, the site offers a cool area much appreciated in summer, two kilometres south of the village of Luc-en-Diois.

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