Enter what was from the sixteenth to the eighteenth in «the most sumptuous residence of Provence».

Between the 16th and 18th centuries the castle of La Tour d'Aigues was considered the most beautiful residence in Provence. In September 1792, The Revolution passes by there, the building falls in ruins and serves as «career» to the inhabitants of the village throughout the nineteenth century. The classification by the Historical Monuments in 1883, the facade and the keep then the purchase of the monument by the Departmental Council of Vaucluse, in 1897, allowed to save the remains. It was during the restoration and restoration of the castle’s basements that the earthenware of La Tour d'Aigues came to life: it was buried, broken for almost two centuries, at the same time as a large quantity of glazed ceramics. One can discover the productions in the «Museum of Earthenware» installed in the restored parts of the Renaissance castle which serve today as a case. The museum also presents some remains of the marble decoration of the old building: medallions carved with the portraits of the twelve Caesars, borders of basins, and preserves one of the very rare polychrome majolica pavements, partially preserved, of the French Renaissance that adorned the chapel of the castle.