Visit of the Village des Bories, Gordes

Timetable:

The Village des Bories is open every day from 9 am.
Closing hours depending on the season, from 5:30 pm in winter to 8 pm in summer

Closed on December 25th and January 1st.

Bories, also referred to locally as Gallic huts, are built from dry stone walls, without the use of mortar, based on the architectural principle of the corbelled vault. These traditional huts were constructed from stones found on site, a practice that continued up until the last century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the increase in population forced farmers to grow crops on new land. The stones extracted from the limestone hills and ground around Gordes were used to build "farm" huts.
The Bories Village, restored between 1969 and 1976, stands today as it did when the last inhabitants abandoned it approximately 150 years ago.