Exhibition Mermaids and Fossils

Let's go back in time 40 million years, and discover the aquatic animal life of Castellane thanks to the geology!
Let's go back 40 million years, when the sea covered the region of Castellane. In these lagoons, peaceful marine mammals, the sirenians!
Perhaps at the origin of the myth of the sirens, their story is told using
life-size animal models, films and reconstitution of landscapes.

At the Col des Lèques, 8 kilometers above Castellane on the road to Digne-les-Bains, lies the Valley of the Fossil Sirens. This paleontological site contains hundreds of bones belonging to an ancestor
current dugongs and manatees. Protected by a site museum, it is possible
to get there on foot in 30 minutes via a comfortable and equipped path.