Village Street Scene

Flowers and potted herbs are all over even in a paved street in a quaint Provencal village.  These villages are built clinging to hills (because flat areas were valuable for agriculture).  Villagers kept their horses in stables at the edge of the village, and each village had at least one shop for food and such and were self-contained in the past.

Church Street

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On a quiet Sunday morning a mother walks her child to church in a sunny narrow street of Provence.

Driveway on a Hilltop Village

I mentioned that village houses in hilltop villages are kind of weird. They have interesting passageways, sometimes over other peoples dwellings, and disjointed rooms. Here a garage forms part of a house in a very tight driveway on a very narrow hilltop village street.

Neat Narrow Shop

An incredibly narrow shop straddles the loop back street that goes down the mountain from the village.