Provence Blog by ProvenceBeyond

Caille Meteorite landing in Nice

The Caille Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever discovered in France, landed on a mountain beside the village of Caille sometime before 1630. Dragged to the village by four oxen, the iron-stone hung around the village for a century and a half, until it was identified as a meteorite and traded to Paris' National Museum of Natural History for a village clock.

On 20-21 November, the Caille Meteorite will leave the Paris museum for the first time since 1828 to be displayed at the Parc Phoenix in Nice. The occasion of the Parc Phoenix  display is a mineral show.

Verne Chartreuse (monastery) near St-Tropez

The Chartreuse de la Verne is a beautiful, large monastery isolated in the wooded hills of the Maures mountains, only about 20 km west of Saint-Tropez. The original Chartreuse was founded here in the 12th century. The current buildings are from the 17th-18th centuries.

Gastée Dolmen & Boussière Dolmen in the Var

We've added a couple of Neolithic megaliths to Beyond: the Gastée Dolmen and the Boussière Dolmen. Both of these Neolithic tombs are in a wooded area a couple of km east of Cabasse village in the Var department.

 

Neolithic Menhirs of Le Coulet, Larzac Plateau

We've added a page for the group of 4 Neolithic Le Coulet Menhirs, just a few km south of the Cirque de Navacelles, and close to the Ferrussac Dolmens.

 

Prunarede Dolmen

We've added the Prunarede Dolmen to Beyond. These are actually two Neolithic burial dolmens, on the limstone Plateau of Larzac, in the Hérault department.

 

Dolmen of Prunarede in the Languedoc-Roussillon

We've added a page for the Prunarede Dolmen, a Neolithic burial site in the Hérault department, near the Cirque de Navacelles and the village of La Vacquerie-et-St-Martin-de-Castries.

We've also put online in Beyond a page describing Dolmens.