Apt is a town of 11,000 people in the Luberon and is only 4 kilometers away from Saignon, so it is the place to do grocery shopping if you plan to stay in Saignon. Apt is famous for its Saturday market and candied fruit (fruits confits), which you can get at La Bonbonnière.
Among the main sights in Apt is the Church of Sainte-Anne, whose crypt you can see in the photo. According to the website of Apt:
The lower crypt is part of the original 1st-century Roman building, used as a place of worship as early as the Carolingian era, and consists of a corridor leading to a vault where, as local legend has it, Saint Anne’s veil was found. The upper crypt dates back to the 11th century and is made up of a small nave (around 8 metres or 26 feet) and an apse. On the walls are seven alcoves containing Christian sarcophagi. The altar is made up of a pre-Roman engraved table placed on top of a Roman funeral stele with inscriptions on three sides. The early Christian cathedral was probably destroyed during the invasions and rebuilt in the 11th century. The cathedral underwent a series of radical transformations in the 14th and 18th centuries, particularly in the central nave.
Apt is the largest town in this area so everyone descends into it on market day and parking is difficult to find.
