Daudet, Mistral, Giono, and even Pagnol himself might be deceveid into thinking they were seeing their characters true to life in a delighful old village deep in the heart of the Provence region of France.

It took 8,000 hours of work to create the 32 incredibly authentic old buildings (50,000 clay tiles, hand-made, one by one for this miniature Provencal village where more than 400 figurines are seen going about their daily business in astonishingly picturesque scenes, filled with laughter and emotion, at a time when life went on at a more leisurely pace.