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Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (French pronunciation: [mustje sɛ̃t maʁi]; Occitan: Mostiers Santa Maria), or simply Moustiers, is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
The Clérissy faience factories or ateliers Clérissy were the main pottery factories making Moustiers faience, operated by members of the Clérissy family in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in Marseille, France, and later Varages and elsewhere. [1] Family members continued to produce faïence in different locations until ...
The museum also features faïence from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) which also manufactured a prestigious production that appeared slightly later around 1680, but which continued until 1982. A revival of this production was made in 1927 by Marcel Provence, who opened on that date a manufacturing canter and created the ...
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Moustier or Moustiers is the name or part of the name of several communes in France and Belgium: Belgium. Moustier, Hainaut, in Hainaut province; Moustier-sur-Sambre, in Namur province; France. Moustier, Lot-et-Garonne, in the Lot-et-Garonne département; Moustier-en-Fagne, in the Nord département; Moustier-Ventadour, in the Corrèze département
In the aftermath of his graduation, he started work in the pottery industry in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. [1] He then lived in Rome for six years [2] under the patronage of Perron, an arts enthusiast from Aix. Later, he moved back to Aix to work as a painter there.
View of La Verdière from the west. Perched at the top of the village, the Château of La Verdière embraces a vast panorama. To the north one can see the communes of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie and Castellane, to the west the Mont Ventoux and the Luberon, south-west the mountains of Sainte-Baume and Sainte-Victoire and, south-east the Massif des Maures (chain of mountains from the Alps to the Rhone).
In between the towns of Castellane and Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, the river has cut a ravine to a depth of 700 meters through the limestone mass. At the end of the canyon, the Verdon flows into the artificial Lake of Sainte-Croix. The gorge is very popular with tourists, who can drive around its rim, rent kayaks to travel on the river, or hike.