Montjustin

From below, you cannot fail to be impressed by the large wall interspersed with truncated towers surrounding the village, remains of ramparts (restored in 1995) which made Montjustin a true warrior stronghold from the 11th century.

Then climbing the path that leads to Montjustin, you can admire at your leisure this magnificent slightly shiny gray stone, from which all the houses of this harmonious village are built.

A covered washhouse and a fountain, old houses (they date from the 16th and 17th centuries!) all perfectly restored, well spaced out, each with a terrace, a garden or even a wooded park when it is not a swimming pool.
All with a breathtaking view of the Luberon mountains...

To see, to visit:

- Remains of ramparts, restored in 1995.
- Beautiful ruins of the church of Notre-Dame des Neiges, 16th century.
- Houses from the 16th and 17th centuries.

For more than sixty years, between 1945 and 2011, this village was a high-flying cultural and artistic place, attracting so many artists and intellectuals around Lucien Jacques, the "discoverer" of Jean Giono and the painter Serge Fiorio who lived there from 1947 until his death in 2011...

To name a few, the writer Pierre Magnan, the designer Louis Pons, Pierre Martel, Aimée Castain, shepherdess and painter, Lucien Henry, the mischievous postman-poet Jules Mougin, the photographers Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Coen, the writer Claude-Henri Rocquet, Joseph Delteil, or even Norge and his son Jean Mogin and his wife the poet Lucienne Desnoues...

The village is located 18 km from Manosque, 4 km from Reillanne and 8 km from Céreste.