サン＝トーバン＝シュル＝ルヴェーズの天然記念物・トップ6

Via Ferrataの標識が壊れており、矢印が見えなくなっています。このポールを右に進むのは確かです。

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Very beautiful single track which winds through the vegetation. The views of the Saint-Julien rock as well as Buis-les-Baronnies are superb.

The marls shape the landscape into dunes of soft rock with arid slopes. True witnesses to the Lower Cretaceous period (approximately 135 million years ago), these Valanginian marls are mainly composed of limestone, sand, and clay, giving them a crumbly appearance when dry. Tinged with a grey or yellowish hue, they bear witness to a time when the ocean covered the Provençal Baronnies, which were then nothing more than a vast marine trench: the Vocontian Basin.

The route around the mountain of Vic, with breathtaking views, joins the small hamlets of Vénéjean, Vic, La Villette which experienced a prosperous period during Roman times. The discoveries in these places have brought to light vestiges of constructions which testify to a certain ease. Wheat, vines and olive trees could dispense here all their wealth. Work on the road to Aulan has revealed the existence, for irrigation, of a canal cut in the hard rock of the gorges, allowing the waters of the Toulourenc to be domesticated.

In the forest of Tussie, the most observant will have the chance to see the mythical "Venus slipper", an orchid difficult to confuse with another.

The Toulourenc, a torrential river on the north side of Mont Ventoux, has its source at the foot of the Château d'Aulan. The river has dug deep gorges in the rock of its bed, sometimes reaching 100 meters.

Impressive route along the Toulourenc - you should stop there from time to time.