Saint-Véran

At 2,042 metres by its church, Saint-Véran in the Queyras is called the highest commune in Europe, and a sundial on the church wall names it the highest place where people eat bread from their own grain. Its five quarters each have an old fountain, and Bronze Age miners dug copper on the mountain above. Biblical verses over some doors recall the village's Protestant families.

Highlights

• Musée Le Soum, a house from 1641 showing village life
• Saint-Véran Observatory at about 2,930 metres, open to amateur astronomers (FR)
• The parish church porch, with stone lions, one cradling a baby
• Sundials, including Zarbula's 1840 dial on the Maison aux Forannes
• Bronze Age copper mine, with the Tranchée des Anciens still visible

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.