Between the Big the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, in the heart of a wild and protected nature, here is High Provence and Sisteron, its "pearl".

In 485 metres in height, under the purest sky of Europe, this city of 7000 inhabitants will know how to seduce you by thousand facets of its charm.

- An incomparable site: the transverse valley of Durance, the cliff of Balm in the relief titanesque,

- An exceptional climate as by the summer coolness of the nights as by the remarkable duration of the glorious autumns,

- The wealth of its medieval patrimony the chief detail(room) of which is the citadel and which also includes the Cathedral Our Lady of Apple trees, jewel of the Romanic Art, Convents, Tours of wall, Andrônes and place settings.

The Country Sisteronais, they are villages hung on(collided) on the sunny hillsides, the small churches to be discovered to the bend of a road, the grand landscapes of an austere but so human beauty, it is finally and also the privileged place where the man meets himself such as in him even.

For any information or demand of documentation, please, contact the Office of Sisteron's tourism.

Credit text and photo : advertising Plaque "Sisteron, Door of Provence"