Balade Paysanne in Provence

The Montagnette
The Montagnette is a small mass located between the Alpilles and the Durance. It is the link to Avignon. Covered with thyme and rosemary and a beautiful pine forest of Aleppo, it is bordered on the west by the Rhône and east by the channel of Alpines. At the foot of this mountain range land TARASCON generous, BOULBON, ST-PIERRE DE MEZOAGUES, GRAVESON AND BARBENTANE which combines orchards, fields of vegetables, olive groves and vineyards sheltered by cypress.

the Figuières of Mas of Luquet
Figs, more than thirty years and Jacqueline France honors him dedicate their lives. They homily on their orchard Graveson is a veritable museum with over 150 variety of this delicious fruit in the South, it yields to greed in the morning, is hastening the mellow taste of ripe fruit. It is customary that the figs are put on the table at the beginning of the meal so that everyone would use between dishes. They marry voluntarily provided to the liver as a meat or fish.

Domain of large Mas of Lansac
Jean Michel MONTAGNIER and will open the doors of their Winery of 150 hectares which add 100 hectares of cereals on the town of Tarascon. This Domain is imposing its history and architecture, and was built in the 17th century and has since ceased to be of service to the vine. You will discover the cave, the old tools and more modern. and especially love their te wines Provence.

Abbaque St-Michel of Frigolet
At the heart of the Montagnette, Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet is a spiritual mecca for a millennium. It includes two built monasteries of the Middle Ages until the 19th century. The church of Saint-Michel and the Cloister plunge us into the purity of Romanesque art of the 12th seat. In 1858, a community of Prémontrés moved to Frigolet. It built the neo-Gothic basilica that emerges over a pine forest of Aleppo. The Prémontrés follow the rule of St. Augustine. It is a community homily. It is always possible to participate in liturgical offices or live a few days of spiritual retreat in the hotel monastic.

Museum of memory of the Vines and the wine
At the heart of Provence, between the Rhone and Mortagnette, a few kilometers from Boulbon. Sait-Pierre de Mézoargues is nestled amid the orchards. Surrounded by a rich plain that the vagaries of the Rhone have made fruitful, this village remembers the vine that was the main crop until the early 80s.

The Farmers market of Graveson
A Graveson, at the foot of the Montagnette, producers from the Comtat du Pays de Crau, the Camargue, you Homelent. In this village, the charm and beauty to your authentic, who seduces you painter Auguste Chabaud. they offer their products: wine, fruit juice, honey, olive oil, jams, goat cheese, poultry, flowers, potted plants and herbs, fruit and seasonal vegetables, sun-ripened Provence and freshly picked the morning.

Manade Laurent &Jean –François Baud
Close to the heart of Barbentane at Mas du Colombier, "Jeff and his son BAUD Laurent created a few years ago a farm of Camargue horses. The order has a dozen mares and a stallion famous "Etourneau" which was ranked 1st in 2001, for the traditional competition horses of Camargue Camagri.