Digne-Les-Bains: Holiday Apartments and Houses

La Dalle aux ammonites displays more than 1,500 ammonite and nautilid fossils across 320 m². Renting a holiday apartment in Digne-les-Bains can be part of your travel planning.

Nature

La Dalle aux ammonites features an educational trail and a viewing platform accessible to all visitors, including people with reduced mobility. The Musée Promenade is situated on a tuff outcrop overlooking Digne-les-Bains and presents geological eras, art and nature.

In the centre of Digne-les-Bains, the Parcours des étoiles Saint-Vincent invites visitors to discover the marine fossil pentacrinus through stars engraved in stone.

Culture

The Musée Gassendi presents encyclopaedic collections on art, local history, and the physical and natural sciences. The Collection l’Art en montagne extends the museum visit at the Musée Gassendi outdoors and is discovered while walking.

The museum of the Maison Alexandra David-Neel traces her adventurous life, travels, and interest in spirituality and Buddhism through photographs, correspondence, and objects brought back from her journeys. Today, the garden of the Maison Alexandra David-Neel covers less than 1,300 m² and has been redesigned as a rose garden and fruit and vegetable garden. It is part of the visitor route connecting the house and museum.

The CAIRN, centre d'art, offers an artistic and cultural programme throughout the year. It hosts artists for artistic residencies.

History

The Tourist Office offers guided tours of the centre of Digne-les-Bains, presenting the history of the town. The Cathédrale Saint-Jérôme has a neo-Gothic appearance, has been a co-cathedral since 1962, and is classified as a Monument historique.

Wellness

The Thermes de Digne-les-Bains are located about 3 km from the town centre in a quiet valley protected from the wind by the surrounding hills.

Other destinations: Mallefougasse-Augès, Dauphin, Ste.Croix-A-Lauze, Redortiers, Mallemoisson, Chaudon-Norante, Auzet, Montclar.

To the higher-level travel overview: Alpes-De-Haute-Provence.