L'Harmas de J.-H. Fabre

To make a day of it

L'Harmas de J.-H. Fabre stands in Sérignan-du-Comtat (Vaucluse), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. The building is listed as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: 19th century). Adult admission costs 10 EUR. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

The Harmas is the house where naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre settled in 1879, in Sérignan-du-Comtat, turning it into an open-air laboratory for his work in entomology and botany. The visit combines a 19th-century farmhouse, kept in plain domestic style, with a garden of roughly one hectare where Fabre cultivated the Provençal scrubland that gave the place its name. Visitors can see the family's living quarters, a study, collections, watercolours and an herbarium, along with devices the scientist built to observe insects.

What to know

• Both the house and the garden are open to visitors, with an indoor and outdoor route.
• Dogs on a lead are allowed in the garden but not inside the house, except guide dogs.
• Smoking and flash photography are not permitted indoors.
• The site is a listed historic monument.
• A combined ticket also gives access to the nearby Naturoptère.

Practical information

Visit duration

Not verified

Wheelchair access

Not verified

Dogs

Allowed on a lead

Parking

A car park is located 200 metres away, then accessible via a pedestrian-only path; accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Partial access: study room not accessible to people with reduced mobility; accessible car park located 200 metres away.

Where this château is

Sérignan-du-Comtat · Vaucluse · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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Address

445 Rte d'Orange, 84830 Sérignan-du-Comtat

Directions open from wherever you are, by car or public transport.

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Château phone number

+33 4 90 30 57 62

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Heritage status

Listed historic monument (classé)

Mérimée record PA84000007

Period of construction

19th century

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Sources

Identity, location and official references from Wikidata and the Mérimée register.

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• Wikidata Q22980655
• Mérimée PA84000007
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