Village des Bories

Of course, with a name like this, how could we resist.  Today we traveled north to the Luberon region and stopped to visit this "village" of stone buildings.  These date back to the 17th century.  The most recent were built in the 19th century.  They were restored in the 1960's.

Bori and des Bories

Bories are stone buildings, built without mortar.  The dry-stone buildings resulted from farmers clearing their land of stones to create more arable land, and then using the abundant stones to make huts:  for storing farming equipment and some farm animals, as well as seasonal housing.

Bori touring the Village des Bories

Based on the number of dry-stone walls we saw today, there must have been a lot of stones in the soil in the area.

Dry-stone wall