La Treille

At the centre of the quartier is the seventeenth century hillside village of La Treille.

La Treille became famous as the place where writer Marcel Pagnol spent his summer holidays during his childhood—at the Bastide Neuve—and he is buried in the cemetery there.

Pagnol's early films used the village as a backdrop and its inhabitants as actors: it has only slightly changed since then.

This countryside featured prominently in Pagnol's books about his childhood and is now known in France as La Pagnolie.

It can be explored on footpaths starting at the end of the chemin des Bellons, the main street in the village.