Vignettes: Short panorama of Fort de Buoux, Luberon, Provence, France

Fort De Buoux is unbelievably beautiful. There's more of the Fort on my channel, here... http://www.provencebyways.com/visible.htm Most impressive of all are the ruins at the Fort de Buoux, a Protestant stronghold near the headwaters of the Aigue Brun that survived the Wars of Religion only to be taken and pulled down by Cardinal Richelieu in the 17th century. The Fort de Buoux is one of the most defensible and inaccessible town sites in all of Provence. An island of stone in a deep limestone canyon, it has almost vertical sides all around. Extensive ruins of a fortress, church, and village bring home the reality that a whole community lived out their lives in fear and readiness. There are a few acres of arable land, a spring, cylindrical granaries carved into the hard limestone, and a remarkable hidden stairway notched out of the sheer mountainside and shielded from view at its base by a twenty-foot tall curtain wall of stone.