La Vallée sauvage, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, is a wildlife park on the estate of a former mill, in an unspoilt natural setting.
Its 15 wooded hectares are home to wild and farm animals: mouflon, red deer, chamois, roe deer, wild boar and many others. The walk among the animals suits young and old alike.
On one hectare on the edge of Digne, the Butterfly Garden has recorded 124 species of butterflies since 1999.
About ten kilometres from Sisteron, beside the road to Saint-Geniez, shortly before Chardavon, the rock was engraved in the early fifth century with an inscription praising the benefits of Claudius Dardanus, an influential man of that period, who is said to have had the road giving access to Theopolis built...
The Rocher de la Baume offers a completely unusual lithic architecture: vertical bars of limestone alternate with softer beds attacked by erosion.
Between Provence and the Dauphiné, above the Durance gorge, the citadel of Sisteron crowns the town with its walls and keep.
Called the pearl of Haute Provence, Sisteron, a town of history where glories and miseries once alternated, is today one of the flagship towns of the Alpes de Haute Provence.
Between high rock walls, the agitated waters of the torrent rush in. Thirty million years ago, a geological upheaval caused a tremendous vertical break called a "clue".