Albion

This is the town of Albion. The South of France has many small towns, a good percentage of which have nearby ruins of large castles and manors. Most were built out of huge blocks of stone. Some fortresses were even carved into the mountainside itself.

As opposed to the United States, where large cities sprawl seemingly forever across flat expanses of land, many of the towns in the South of France were built on the tops of hills and moutains where they commanded protective views of the surrounding countryside. The farmers would go down into the surrounding lowlands to tend to their fields and livestock during the day but spent the nights in the safety of tightly packed, often walled towns.