Between sky and Durance.
Delicately blotie between the mysterious hills of Lure's mountain and Valensole's plateau where wind one thousand caterpillars, of a blue so strong, which the head turns you it, Oraison pregrows tired languishingly along Durance.
"The silence is the biggest luxury of our time full of noise and fury" Jean Giono said. This luxury is here, in the heart of the High Provence, halfway between summits covered with snow by the Alps of the South and the sunny beaches of the Mediterranean Sea.
Just a step from the regional Natural reserves of Luberon and of Verdon, Oraison invites you to discover its hills, in flat slopes, in flavors of guarrigue.
In a frame of protected nature, you will discover, all the year round , in a plant environment of more than 2 300 ha wooded of white oaks and greens, a fauna and a flora populated with numerous rare sorts such as guépier of Europe, hupe fasciée, great tit, blue tit, but also in spring a whole variety of rare orchids and a rare beauty.
Numerous artisans, lovers and passionate persons, will also make for you appreciate a whole assortment of products of the soil elaborated according to the regional and traditional receipts: cooked pork meats, feet of packages, pâtés, terrines, calissons, buns, bonbons, pastas of almond(kernel), jams... (Possible visit of certain studios(workshops)).
For any information or demand of documentation, please, contact the Office of Tourism of Oraison.
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