|  History
Paradou does not mean paradise
as one could believe it so much it is for it good to live, but
indicates a mill in foulon, to return the firmer and tighter
sheet.
This small village of 1 200
inhabitants is nested in the feet of the village of "les baux de Provence", in a fertile
plain in the South of the massif of Alpilles. The main resources arise from
the agriculture in particular from the olive growing with 30 000 olive trees
producing the famous oil of the valley of the Baux.
This small rural
district very attached to its traditions knew how to protect an
authentic character of the villages of the South. This small case is still
encircled with greenery and not by the concrete.
It is moreover the homeland
of Félibre and Provençal poet Charloun Rieu ( 1845-1924 ), faithful friend of
famous Frederic Mistral. If you
take time to stop in Paradou, you will discover numerous historic
curiosities.
To
see
- Prehistory: graves under tiles
and small votive altar with place says Holy Martin de Castillon.
- Antiquity: Aqueduct of Burlande, voie
Aurélienne, stele steelyard, Arcoules's sanctuary.
- Sacred architecture: parochial Church
Saint Martin, of 15-th Romanic origin, the ancient Romanic chapel of the
St-Jean Mas, Oratories St-Roch and (18-th) Saint Eloi in the South.
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Alpilles
