The village of Les Mées is famous for its rock pillars, some one hundred meters high, which stretch for over two kilometers along the Durance valley. Erosion has carved these cliff-forming cones and blades out of a thick layer of indurated poudingues of Mio-Pliocene age. Legend has it that these were petrified monks in their robes who fell in love with beautiful Moorish creatures taken prisoner by local lords during a battle against the Saracens.