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Poets and writers who lived in Provence and Luberon

#Culture #Provence

Famous poets and writers have lived in Provence and Luberon. They were inspired by the beauty of the place, the burgeoning culture of Provence, by the story of a region renowned for its relaxed lifestyle. We have chosen four writers and poets among the most famous. Each depicted the Provence of...

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Saint-Pantaléon, little village of the Luberon nestled between Gordes and Goult

With an surface area of 78 hectares only, the commune of Saint Pantaleon is one of the smallest in France, and the smallest in Vaucluse. The most remarkable heritage point of the village seems to be St. Pantaleon Chapel and its burial cave, carved into the rock, where the sizes suggest that many...

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The SKI resort of Mont Serein

#Location #Tourisme #Sport et loisirs, #Provence #Secteur Ventoux

Located at 1400m on the north side of the famous Mont Ventoux (Vaucluse), the ski resort of Mont Serein is more or less one of the oldest ski resorts in France (there is skiing since the beginning 1930 ...). At first, Mont Ventoux looks more like the exploits of cyclists than skiers. Yet the...

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Frédéric MISTRAL, the writer in langue d'Oc

#Culture #Histoire #Provence #Avignon

The great poet of the langue d'oc, Frédéric Mistral (1830 - 1914) was born in Maillane into a wealthy family and grew up in Mas du Juge, an area of 25 hectares, between Maillane and Saint Remy. He studied at Avignon, in particular the Royal College of Avignon, in the street that now bears his n...

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The cedars' forest in Bonnieux, at the top of the Little Luberon Mountain

#Sport et loisirs #Tourisme #Bonnieux

The Cedars LuberonFrom 1861, with seeds from the Middle Atlas Algerian, the Atlas cedar were planted throughout the region without major means, aided by some convinced foresters helped by local people from the villages of Bonnieux, Lacoste and Menerbes.The cedar forests of BonnieuxThe first...

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Rustrel in Luberon, its ochers and Provencal Colorado

#Patrimoine #Sport et loisirs #Tourisme #Luberon

The history of the town of Rustrel, from the bottom of the North Luberon valley, is strongly linked to the wealth of its soils with iron minerals. Early in the history, the site was used for mineral extraction. The Romans, when colonizing the area, were no exception to the rule. An influential ...

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PETRARQUE and the Fontaine de Vaucluse

#Culture #Histoire #Provence #secteur des Sorgues

Petrarch, the great scholar of the fourteenth century, lived in Avignon and found refuge at the Fontaine de Vaucluse. Frédéric Mistral sang the Pays d'Arles with his love of Occitan. The surrealist poet René Char, Isle sur la Sorgue, made his city and discover the Vaucluse his surrealist friends. ...

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The MARQUIS de SADE

#Culture #Histoire #Lacoste

The Marquis de SadeIt is just after high school that I discovered for the first time Lacoste and its millenium old fort. The Marquis de Sade was then completely unknown to me ... But the place pleased me! The situation of the castle, this luminous beauty of the Luberon inspired me at first...

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Maubec, a village between Robion and Oppède in the Luberon

#Economie #Histoire #Patrimoine #Tourisme, #Luberon

Maubec is a rather quiet village between Robion and Oppède, in the Luberon. There is a church from the seventeenth century which was built to replace another church where cult had been banned from 1745 due to a major lack of maintenance. On the hill, where the "historic center” of the village is...

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The LAVENDER MUSEUM in Coustellet, in Luberon

#Economie #Sport et loisirs #Tourisme #Luberon

The Lavender Museum is unique in its category. It allows you to discover everything that you wanted to know about this aromatic plant of the botanical family Lamiaceae, and more ... in addition, a large collection of copper stills and tools of all kinds that are used for the distillation of ...

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The cave of Thouzon in the Thor

#Histoire #Patrimoine #Sport et loisirs #Tourisme #Provence #secteur des Sorgues

A marginal discovery of the udnerground mineral world and the hidden splendors of planet Earth, where water has worked its wonders. Enter the mysterious spellbidning world of caves, traveling along the fossilized bed of an ancient underground river. See the amazing golden fistulous stalactites...

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POPES' PALACE in Avignon

#Architecture #Culture #Economie #Histoire #Patrimoine #Tourisme #Avignon

AVIGNON, THE POPES' PALACE  "From the corner of a small backstreet,my eyes fell upon a huge stone archwith flying buttresses abovethe lane. I looked up;I was at the foot of the Popes’ Palace. "ALEXANDRE DUMAS, Impressions de voyage   "One cannot conceive of anything more beautiful in its sim...

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