A forest and mountainous massif in the southeast of France, the Luberon is filled with villages built high up on the first sites of human settlement in the region. This perched habitat that preserves the authenticity and the structure of the medieval period bears witness to the history of the Luberon massif. These villages are generally sparsely populated, and their dwellings are grouped together according to the adage of Fernand Benoit, an archaeologist and historian of Provence, for whom poverty groups habitat, ease disperses it.