Auberge du Point Sublime, in the Gorges du Verdon, who we are ?

My grandparents, Madame and Monsieur Monier Solange and André, settled here in 1946. My grandfather fell in love with both the territory of Verdon and my grandmother from Palud sur Verdon. Their fixed idea was to be able to settle down and create an activity because for them the confidential and secret Verdon of the time had a future and potential. André welcomes customers, he edits photos which will become postcards. He wrote one of the first guides as well as a map of the gorges which he sent at the time to numerous houses in France abroad at his own expense. His way of advertising our house and the territory at the time.

Solange cooks, serves, takes care of the family always with discretion but efficiency and above all great tenderness… Their children, Jeanne, Renée and France live there. Jeanne, wife Jeannot, they will run the family bakery of La Palud sur Verdon practically all their lives. My uncle Jeannot diversified his activity by becoming the first taxi, but above all « the taxi storyteller » (some of them, written by my aunt) known and recognized beyond the borders of Verdon.

Renée, my mother married my father Ferruccio who came from Italy with cousins, brothers, friends to earn a living. They will marry the most beautiful girls in the country and settle for life in our mountains which will become theirs. All these Italian builders will start by working on the Castillon dam, then on the construction of the first lookouts on the Route des Crêtes. The first climbers of the Verdon before the practice of climbing developed on the cliffs of the Verdon. But not only…

At the time, there was no « Classified Site », no « Natura 2000 » area… When four cents came into the coffers, my grandparents asked the Mayor for authorization to expand. This is how a small inn in 1946 consisting of a bar, a small kitchen, a hall and three bedrooms became what it is today thanks to the hands and sweat of my father, my uncles and cousins, masons, tilers, roofers… My mother Renée, recently retired from the civil service, and my father moved in with my grandparents in 1965, when I was not yet a year old. They will have since and for the rest of their lives worked on the smooth running of the family business but also on its transmission.