You are here in the heart of the old Provence, halfway between the mountain and the sea.

Trans which is welcoming you is a very old village: its caves were lived in prehistory; later, Roman peace left its traces everywhere there; finally its name appears in XIe century, after plundering of Buckwheat which devastated Provence during one century.

Until the revolution, the history of this village was especially due to frequent conflicts between the inhabitants of Trans and their lords who belonged to the family of Villeneuve.

These conflicts, during which our ancestors showed their independence spirit , sometimes took a tragic turn.

During centuries, the village owed its prosperity to the culture of the olive-tree which succeeds there extremely well and which experienced a great development.

In addition, the driving force got by the broken course of the river allowed very early the setting of oil mills and later of factories.

In second half of the XIXe century, there were thus in Trans twenty five mills of oil working. As you will be able to see it, the cave or is currently “L’Auberge du Vieux Moulin”, sheltered a mill of oil, of which part of old equipment was preserved. At the same time a small industry was constituted: a spinning mill of silk as of the XVIIe century, the wood sawmills, the bouchonneries.

This prosperity unfortunately did not last: the culture of Olive trees was affected first by the competition of foreign oils, and then by reiterated frosts which reduced it...

But since about twenty years, like most of the localities of the area, Trans experienced an important development of the population. Indeed, numerous are those which, come from other regions of France, were seduced by the charm of its climate and its landscapes and came to fix themselves here.

From the terrace of the restaurant “L’Auberge du Vieux Moulin”, you have a view on the water falls of, you will admire surely the picturesque.

Do not forget either, when you leave from there and to go admire the façade of the Hotel de Ville has been beautifully restored in its Louis XV style and should not be missed. The unfinished overhead well of the Belgian professor Knappen is quite an astonishing sight to see too!