Valaurie

Pop. : 508 h Elevation : 168 m

Drome Provencale Deparment

Valaurie is a marvellous quiet little village, situated on a low hill overlooking the plain, with rose bushes and virginia creeper, cypressses and laurels.

All Valaurie has left of its past are a few remains of the old medieval castle and some sections of the ramparts and towers, but it is a truly enchanting place, with its sloping alleyways and lopsided little squares, its large roofed wash-house and fountain. Above all its houses were built using a superb pale yellow dressed stone. They are often in perfect condition and lovingly restored. enabling the village to maintain its authentic atmosphere.

Valaurie has become a fashionable residential village, home to many artists and their studios - for example the sculptor François Jullien lives here and will show you his beautiful racu cermaics, if you ask him nicely - and chosen as the location for many holiday homes.

It's delightful to stroll up and down the bucolic streets of Valaurie … You will doubtless be tempted to stay here for good, if you're someone who loves old buildings !

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Neighbouring villages :

Grignan (9km). Roussas (2km).