In the heart of the Luberon mountain range, the Aiguebrun river has caved out the impressive Buoux canyon with steep mountain sides on it's nothern trace near the villages of Sivergues and Buoux. This area is reputed internationally for mountain climbing. This is also the setting of Fort de Buoux, built on the southern edge of the canyon, and ordered destroyed by King Louis XIV, who thought it could serve as a refuge for Huguenots. Numerous relics of prehistoric life has been found here and in the earliest Christian days monks survived against all odds in tiny caves and niches in the vertical cliff face.
“Je découvrais au lois, vers le fort de Buoux, une grande table de pierre, sur le flanc nord de la montagne. C’était comme un beau mouvement de rouchers bleus et gris, sous lequel s’ouvrait une caverne. Ces rochers avancaient comme un toit. En dessous, devant le trou béant de l’antre, on voyait une second table de pierre, dont la saillie, tel un balcon massif, surplombait un abime.”
From Henri Bosco’s Le
sanglier.
