Guided Tour of the “Mermaids and Fossils” Exhibition - 24 July

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Would you like to find out more about the Sirenian geological site ?

Join a tour guide to explore the ‘Mermaids and Fossils’ exhibition, which highlights this geological site of international significance, as well as its connection to the myth of mermaids and the very topical issues surrounding environmental protection. In this exhibition, travel back in time 40 million years, to when the sea covered the Castellane region. In these lagoons lived peaceful marine mammals: the sirenians! Perhaps the origin of the myth of mermaids, their story is told through life-size animal models, films and landscape reconstructions. At the Col des Lèques, 8 kilometres above Castellane on the road to Digne-les-Bains, lies the Valley of the Fossil Sirens. This palaeontological site contains hundreds of bones belonging to an ancestor of today’s dugongs and manatees. Protected by a site museum, it can be reached on foot in 30 minutes via a well-maintained and comfortable footpath.