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Lourmarin
It was in the sixteenth century that the inhabitants of the Protestant village were massacred by Maynier d'Oppède.
Today, Lourmarin peacefully arranges its seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses a little apart from the delicate Romanesque church and the magnificent castle. The latter, built by the d'Agoult family in the fifteenth century, became a refuge for gypsies in the nineteenth century and was badly damaged. Fortunately, it was entirely restored in 1921 by a Lyon industrialist who donated it to the Academy of Aix. The castle has two parts: the old fifteenth-century castle with its crenellated tower, and the new Renaissance castle with its mullioned windows and Italian-style galleries. Do not forget to stroll the picturesque streets of the village, admire the pretty fountains and the old belfry. In Lourmarin's small cemetery lie Albert Camus and Henri Bosco.
