The installation of many artists for several decades and the establishment of an American school of sculpture have transformed little by little into a workshop of giant artist. Maze of picturesque caladées lanes, Lacoste is an enchantment for the walker.

History:
The history of Lacoste is marked by two major events:
the massacre of Of Vaud in 1545 and the presence of the Marquis de Sade at the 18th century.
The Of Vaud ones were the disciples of Valdès, a Lyons commercial rich person who decided towards 1170 to make wishes of poverty and to preach the Gospel in popular speech.
Coming from the Alps, they settle in Luberon at the 15th century to give in culture the uncultivated lands, depopulated because of the epidemics and plunderings.
These courageous peasants carry out a peaceful life and practise their religion in greatest discretion. But, in 1545, Meynier d' Oppède decides to clean the area of the Vaudoise heresy definitively being based on the stop of Mérindol which condemned the heretics and their families to to be stripped their goods, outlaws, to see flarings. Meynier gathers his troops and presents himself in front of Lacoste on April 21, 1545. He finds the doors of the city closed. The lord of Lacoste, Balthasar de Simiane, concludes an agreement and Lacostois opens their doors. Meynier enters the village then and massacres without distinction catholics and of Vaud. The village is plundered and set fire to. The castle and the lords of the manor will be saved in extremis only thanks to the intervention of the vice president of the Parliament of Aix.
Two centuries later, it is Louis Alphonse Donatien, Marquis de Sade who will put Lacoste on the front of the scene. Property of Simiane, the village will be bequeathed to Sade at the 17th century. The divine Marquis will make several stays with Lacoste since 1765 to be devoted in all peace to his famous escapades.
Ruined, after many stays in prison, Sade the castle will sell to the Marquis de Rovère during the revolution. A few times later, that Ci will be off-set and the castle will be repurchased by a former servant of Sade which will strip without shame the building in order to sell materials of them. Practically ruins some, it will survive nevertheless thanks to the courage of a man, André Bouer, who will restore it partially.
Today, it is the property of Pierre Cardin who plans to give again life to him and to make an arts centre of it.
The Pharaonic site of the careers being next to the castle is now the framework of the Festival Costa (Theatre and lyric art)