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Culture & heritage

Verdon culture

The Verdon is more than a canyon. It’s 400,000 years of human history, a faience famous the world over, hilltop villages and Vauban forts, and dozens of museums that keep this memory alive. This is the culture of the Verdon — gathered, explained and verified.

The entrance to the Museum of Prehistory of the Verdon Gorges in Quinson, a building designed by architect Norman Foster

The full inventory

The 26 museums of the Verdon

Quinson prehistory, Moustiers faience, Colmars’ Vauban forts, Aiguines woodturners, the museums of Aups: every museum and cultural site, village by village, with its verified official source.

The Fort de Savoie, a Vauban fortification in Colmars-les-Alpes, Upper Verdon

The history of the Verdon

From the Baume Bonne cave (400,000 years) to the first crossing of the canyon in 1905: prehistory, the Roman heritage of Riez, hilltop villages, Vauban’s fortifications.

An 18th-century Moustiers faience basin with blue decoration, an art craft of the Verdon

Local produce & faience

Moustiers faience, renowned since 1679, honey, Aups truffles, olive oil and Valensole lavender: the know-how that gives the Verdon its taste.

The village of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie nestled at the foot of its cliffs

Events & what’s on

Markets, village fêtes, festivals: what’s happening this week and this season in the Verdon, with the official sources of the tourist offices.

Explore further

Verdon prehistory

The Baume Bonne cave and the Quinson museum, one of the largest in Europe.

Verdon heritage

Hilltop villages, castles, chapels and fortifications to discover.

The wild Verdon

Geology, vultures, wildlife and flora of the largest canyon in Europe.

Discover the villages

Rougon, La Palud, Moustiers, Castellane: the villages of the Verdon.