Castellane - Roc

Over Castellane's town towers a mighty almost cubic block of rock, 184m/604ft high, on which stands the little pilgrimage chapel of Notre-Dame du Roc (1703). On the rock there was once a Celtic oppidum which later became Petra Castellana. In the 14th C. the settlement was moved into the valley and surrounded by a wall. To the rear of the parish church at the eastern end of the Old Town (not particularly important) a path leads to the rear of the limestone block and past the Stations of the Cross up to the top, from where there is a good view of Castellane and of the river as it flows into the gorge.