Small picturesque village of Vaucluse, in the country of Aigues, Grambois takes place in the Regional Natural Park of Luberon, a few hundred kilometers from Avignon and its famous Palais des Papes. Classified floral village, it is located at 360 meters of altitude, on a steep slope, not far from Pertuis, Manosque or Aix-en-Provence.
Authentic and full of charm, the town that seduced Yves Robert during the shooting of my father's Glory, was occupied since prehistoric times. The creation of the village is however attested in the eleventh century, with the mention of an oppidum and a parish church. After experiencing a golden age in the fourteenth century, the town suffered a severe crisis for the next two centuries. In the second half of the twentieth century, it will experience an important development that offered him the face we know today.
Very popular with visiting visitors for its architectural and cultural heritage, the town of Grambois is also known for its AOC Côte du Lubéron wine and its potato.
Cited at the end of the 11th century, the Notre-Dame de Beauvoir church was then an outbuilding of the Saint-André abbey of Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. Originally Romanesque building, it knows several enlargements over the centuries. In particular, it has been modified in the 16th century during the reconstruction of the city walls. At the time, she was given a vaulted room installed at the vertical of the choir to serve as an observatory. Following an earthquake in the early eighteenth century, the vault will be completely rebuilt. The bell tower also dates from this time.
Perched on a hill, the hermitage of Saint Pancrace has a chapel now classified as an historic monument. Sold as national property in 1793, the latter now belongs to the owners of the Château de Pradine. Built in the seventeenth century, the hermitage was inhabited until the Revolution and is the subject of a procession every 14 May since the plague epidemic of the first half of the eighteenth century. The chapel, medieval, dates from the fourteenth century and was extended in the eighteenth. You can admire a porch with frescoes inspired by Quattrocento and representing a Pieta, an adoration of shepherds and kings, and a Sermon in the mountains. At the side, it is possible to admire the cemetery with its cypresses and its pyramid six meters high.
Built at the end of the 16th century, the Grambois castle is located on the site of two other older buildings. The site now offers a dwelling and a former presbytery, and its facade was completely redone in the first half of the eighteenth century. Private property, which has notably received Mme de Sévigné and Mirabeau, it can not unfortunately be visited.
Listed as a Historical Monument, the Château de Pradine was founded in the 19th century by Joseph Bonnin, a lawyer at the court of Aix. It is possible to admire an exterior porch of the early twentieth century with a painted decoration.
While strolling in the town, you will be able to appreciate the old ramparts of the end of the 14th century of which a good part remains, the fountain of the church of the second half of the 19th century which notably served as scenery to the film The Glory of my Yves Robert's father, or the Fontsausse and Fontverane fountains.
The House of Hospitallers, which includes elements of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries still presents the cross of the Hospital of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and a Maltese cross encircled and engraved on the facade.
The oratory Notre-Dame-de-Miséricorde, from the mid-nineteenth century, is not lacking in interest, as that of St. Joseph.
As you walk through the old center, you can admire the cobbled streets, sometimes with stairs inspired by the donkey paths.
You can recover a tourist plan within the Tourist Office intercommunal in the castle of the Tower of Aigues.
