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Une ruelle du village de Tourtour
Son implantation sur le haut d'une colline, au nom évocateur de Beau Soleil1, lui vaut son appellation de « Village dans le ciel »2,3. Le village s’est construit sur le passage des eaux de source4 qui alimente huit fontaines et un moulin à huile toujours en activité ; la source principale s’appelle le Saint-Rosaire5. Du village, on voit le moyen Var jusqu'à la montagne Sainte-Victoire.
La bataille de Tourtour vit en 973 la victoire du comte Guillaume de Provence sur les Sarrasins : elle marque leur expulsion définitive de la Provence et met fin à une présence de plus de deux siècles.
The Battle of Tourtour of 973 was a significant victory for the Christian forces of William I of Provence over the Andalusi pirates based at Fraxinetum.
William, equally disturbed by the treatment of the abbot, raised the feudal host and took to the offensive. His army consisted not only of men from Provence, but also the lower Dauphiné and Nice.
William's strategy was simple: he struck at the heart of Saracen Provence with the whole of his force. This did not go unnoticed by the Andalusis, who went out to meet the Provençals in the Alps. They were defeated in a series of five battles at Embrun, Gap, Riez, Ampus, and Cabasse. Thoroughly beaten back, the Saracens assembled in an open plain called Tourtour not far from Fraxinetum. There, the sixth and final battle of the war was fought. William defeated the Andalusis in the field and chased them back to Fraxinetum, where they sheltered while the Provençals rested. source Wikipédia
Ampus est une commune française située dans le département du Var, en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Ses habitants sont appelés les Ampusiens ou, selon les historiens, les Ampusians.
The typical colorful shutters you can find everywhere in the area.
Taken in the very scenic little hill town of Ampus
The performance of a lower limb prostheses has been tested in microgravity conditions for the first time during the latest ESA parabolic flight campaign on the ‘Zero G’ aircraft.
The 86th ESA parabolic flight campaign took off on 21 May 2025 from Bordeaux, France.
Parabolic flights create short windows of microgravity by flying an aircraft in a curved trajectory called a parabola. During each of the 31 parabolas per flight, John and the team experienced 22 seconds of weightlessness, simulating the conditions on the International Space Station.
Credits: ESA/Novespace