Provence has bewitched many visitors by the diversity of its landscape. No wonder that it is the most often visited place in France. Its borders are hard to define. The area spreads roughly between the Rhône River, the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea. Provence can offer beautiful country, romantic villages, and famous landmarks.
The Château des Baux is a fortified castle built during the 10th century, located in Les Baux-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France. Visitors to the Château des Baux can see three full scale replicas of huge siege warfare machines and watch demonstrations of huge catapults (the biggest trebuchet in Europe, a couillard also called biffa and a bricole) performing real shootings every day from April to September. The trebuchet, the largest medieval siege warfare machine, could hurl 100 kg rock projectiles at walls 200 yards (180 m) away.
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