Moustiers-Sainte-Marie: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie combines the village’s faience with distinctive religious buildings, the Domaine de Valx-Félines and several trails in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie.

Renting a holiday apartment in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie can be incorporated into your own travel planning.

Culture

The Musée de la Faïence presents the faience of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in nine museum rooms and traces the development of decorations, forms and colours. The museum displays more than 500 exhibits.

The Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption has a Lombard bell tower dating from the 12th century and has been classified as a Monument historique since 1913. The Chapelle Notre-Dame de Beauvoir has stood on the rock since the 12th century. Access to it leads up 262 steps along a Stations of the Cross route.

Nature and Landscape

The Domaine de Valx-Félines in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie covers almost 250 hectares. It includes oak and pine forests as well as agriculturally used areas with truffle orchards, olive groves, vegetable-growing areas, hay meadows and cereal fields. The grounds also contain a network of dry-stone channels constructed since the 17th century. It supplies agricultural areas, buildings, fountains and a washhouse through gravity-fed irrigation.

Le Pavillon, Le Montdenier, Le Bougès and Le Chiran are each mountains in the area surrounding Moustiers-Sainte-Marie.

Trails

The Sentier découverte de Valx is a free, family-friendly trail on the Domaine de Valx in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. The Tour du village par les Claux is a panoramic trail in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. The Sentier botanique de Tréguier is a botanical out-and-back trail to the Bélvédère de Tréguier.

Regional Surroundings

In the wider regional surroundings of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie lies the Château d'Allemagne-en-Provence, a castle. The Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption there is a church. The Chapelle Saint-Michel de Cousson is also a church in the wider regional surroundings of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. The Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence are an archive in these wider regional surroundings.

Other location pages: Soleilhas, Bevons, Chabrières, Roumoules, Saint-Andrè-Les-Alpes, Ste.Croix-A-Lauze, Selonnet, Pierrerue

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