This site is a true green setting, in the hills of Manosque, open to the public, where more than 400 regional varieties of fruit are preserved.
Description
A visit to La Thomassine is an informative stroll. You'll be guided to discover the wonders of this extraordinary site, which showcases the plants you enjoy. Before thrilling your senses, the bastide's permanent exhibition invites you to understand the process of fruit domestication and the age-old work of men and women to select and multiply the fruits best suited to the terroirs from wild plants. But this is only to better encourage you to see the results for yourself.
Outside the bastide, the fountain is the result of an original water catchment network (water mine) in this Provence where water is often lacking. Then you set off to discover a set of terraced gardens... Before reaching the orchards and their some 400 varieties of fruit trees. Apple trees, pear trees, olive trees, almond trees, peach trees, plum trees, fig trees, welcome you for a discovery full of smells, flavors and colors.
A stroll of the senses in the heart of invaluable fruit collections for the memory of the inhabitants of this territory.
You can also enjoy a picnic area and buy the estate's products: fruit during harvest time, but also apple juice, jams and olive oil.
Rates / opening
Prices
Full price: €6 (guided tour included), Reduced price: €4 (12-18 years, student, unemployed, RSA beneficiary, museum passport), Adult group: €4 (from 5 people), Children's group: €2 (Schools and leisure centers: €2/person).
Free for under 12 years.
NB: no credit cards, cash or checks only
All year round for groups
Open all year round by appointment for groups of 5 people or more
closed on Sundays and holidays.
Opening
From 31/03/2025 to 31/03/2026, Monday to Friday.
except for January 1st, May 1st, May 8th, July 14th, August 15th, November 1st, November 11th and December 25th.
Group bookings only (more than 5 people) by reservation
Closed on public holidays and weekends.
From 01/04 to 26/06/2026 Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 16:30 p.m.
Guided tours on Wednesdays and Fridays from 14pm to 15pm.
except for May 1st and May 8th.
From 02/09 to 30/10/2026 Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 16:30 p.m.
Guided tours on Wednesdays and Fridays from 14pm to 15pm.