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About 20km from the iconic village of St Remy-de-Provence lies a non-descript Provencal village - Paradou.

It’s famous probably only for two things: Le Bistro Paradou (aka Chez Jean-Dennis) - the perennial top Country Restaurant in France; and, La Petite Provence du Paradou. Agriculture is what the locals do here in the heart of the Les Alpilles mountain range: olives, wine and wheat.

More about the Bistro on another day.

However, last week we turned left after St Remy and travelled through the olive groves to Paradou and a collection of 32 incredibly authentic buildings .

It took 8,000 hours of work to create these works of art - 50,000 clay tiles all hand-made, one by one for this miniature Provencal village where more than 400 figurines are seen going about their daily business in astonishingly picturesque scenes.

Daudet, Mistral, Giono and even Pagnot himself might be deceived into thinking they were seeing their characters true to life.

 

[yes, he is having a wee!]

[she's having her bum pinched]

 

See it - www.lapetiteprovence.com

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