La Motte Flottante
Terroir and culture
Enjoy our Terroir and CultureAt the Motte Flottante campsite
At La Motte Flottante you’ll find a number of historic sites to visit, as well as more recent sites such as the Serre-Ponçon dam and many others. Budding historians and bon vivants will be thrilled.
A personalized welcome
Discover the history of our département
historiCAL AND culturAl LOCATIONs In THe Hautes-Alpes :
- Fort Queyras
- Briançon and its Vauban fortifications (forts Dauphin, Salettes, Trois Têtes, Randouillet, with an underground passageway between Fort Randouillet and Fort des Trois Têtes), the Asfeld bridge above the Durance gorges
- Castle of Picomtal and Abbey of Boscodon (south of Savines and of the lake of Serre-Ponçon)
- Tallard Castle
- Citadel of Sisteron
- Silver mines in the Fournel valley (between Embrun and Briançon)
- Lots of walks, near and far, will take you to deserted villages that testify to the intense human occupation of the area for long centuries.
A covered passage connecting the forts of Randouillet to that of Trois Têtes L’abbaye.
traditionAl FOOD :
- Champoléon
- Mountain honey
- Tourte de taillons (potato pie with bacon, cream and cheese)
- Genepi and mountain wines
- Mountain mousses
- Jus d’argousier (sea-buckthorn juice)
- Sisteron lamb
- Donkey’s ears (wild spinach gratin)
- Local apples
- Cachaille cheese
- Pieds paquets (local preparation of pig’s trotters)
- Devil’s Kiss cocktail
- Champsaur dried fruit tart
- Birch sap
- Frosted apples
