


In Forcalquier, they can't be missed! Small walls, pens, retaining walls for terrace fields, or weird huts (bories). They are everywhere! The construction of these small dry stone structures began when man had to clear his land of stones in order to cultivate it. So what to do with this excess of stones? From there came the idea to pile them up in order to build pens, tame slopes or make shelters for men and tools.