Les Baux-de-Provence, France part 2 the Château

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While at Les Baux-des-Provence in the south of France you want to visit the museum and Château out on the plateau at the end of the pedestrian lane. We also take you on another walk through the narrow, peaceful pedestrian lanes of this historic stone village, carved into the steep plateau.
The old castle was attacked back in the 1600s but there are dramatic ruins and many parts of the Château still standing. They even built houses inside stone caves they carved out of the limestone. The Citadel has a steep staircase you can climb to gain a spectacular view over the countryside, with extensive olive groves reaching to the distant Alpilles Mountains. On the other side you look down on the stone village, dramatically framed by a valley and more mountains.
Among the exhibits at the Château is an ancient sling, a model of a trébuchet that was used back in the Middle Ages, which could sling large boulders 200 yards, and there is a battering ram, another ancient weapon of war
This is the perfect naturally fortified site, so it's no wonder people have been living here for so long, especially well-protected back in the Middle Ages, a time of fraught and peril. The Knights who ruled from here were very powerful, controlling about 80 other towns and villages throughout the region.
There is an ongoing violent history, battling back and forth with attackers from Barcelona in the Catalan area of what is now Spain to the west, and various invaders from the Eastern side as well as the Saracens, Muslim invaders coming up from Africa, so Les Baux-des-Provence was a hot bed of contention, surviving fighting that went on for centuries, as shown in the castle museum and historic site.

[@mirelaspiridon8492]

Le baux de Provance un soare al tuturor timpurilor
Cu respect
Mirela
Nona

[@cyeoql]

Thanks for your videos. It brings back fond memories of this place I visited last spring. My vacation in Provence would have been great id not for my one hour walk in Lacoste when my car was broken in and my personal belongings stolen.

[@mirelaspiridon8492]

Bună seara,
Stelele strălucesc peste câmpul tivit cu lavandă
Un loc mirific care te duce cu gândul, la ospitalitatea și laborioasele ospețe.
Le baux de Provance un altar de credință și amintiri.
Cu respect
Mirela
Nona

[@denniscallan]

google translate: Good evening, the stars shine over the field edged with lavender A wonderful place that makes you think of hospitality and hard work. Le baux de Provance an altar of faith and memories. Respectfully Mirela Nona

[@mona2242]

Thank you !

[@mirelaspiridon8492]

Bonne Anne
Să primim anul nou cu bucurie
Cu respect
Mirela
Nona

[@mirelaspiridon8492]

Les baux de
Provance
Filele de carte ale amintirilor, pe care strămoșii noștri le au scris
Le am strâns în suflet,
Mister, o armonie din plinătatea zilelor
Când pașii grațiosi urcau spre
marele castel

[@markoshea6833]

nice place for a walk in the surrounding hills, tres magnifique: wish Ireland weren't shooting the crows out of the sky like in Mao China 60's