~ Beaumes-de-Venise, 30.06.2021 ~

On the peak on the eastern side of the ridge stand – lie, rather – the ruins of the Castellas de Durban, a fortified mountaintop village/castle of the 12th–13th century.

A few larger portions of wall and the base of a tower remain, but I didn't see those when I was there. The foundations of many a collapsed wall peek through the vegetation, strewn building stones line the ground.

The path descends along what must one have been the outer wall, two-layered in places.

Little remains but a series of overgrown terracces made of the foundatios of buildings long gone and the knee-high remains of their walls, but that the place was once a sight to behold is obvious: the mountainside outside of the wall falls down steeply, and the jagged peaks above would have borne a chapel and a keep.