[ The region ] |
Between the Durance and the Mount Ventoux, Provence offers you its most beautiful stone villages, whether on the top of the hill and cliffs or down in the valley. You will hear about the most beloved villages in France, as Gordes, Ménerbes, Oppèdes or Lacoste, where Middle age castles and Roman ruins coexist with old style farms still working on cherry, grape and olive trees. Its bories, funny cone-headed stone houses which would shelter our sheperds, dot the environning Guarrigue, a foisonning flora countrryside that inspired many a painter or poet. Visiting by a hot and sunny summer day the magnificient Collegiales ( french type churches) like that of l’Isle sur la Sorgue, dating from the XIIIth century, or Abbeys like in Sénanque, will provide the shade that you need for tasting pleasantly our region. The Pont Julien, aged of more than twenty centuries, willl be the perfect halt coming back from the high located Bonnieux and its beauiful sights, on the way to the french Colorado in Roussillon. In the end, the Eygalières Chapell is unavoidable, on the road to St Rémy de Provence. The whole Alpilles region is the perfect place for shanty walks, in a countryside abouding with wild olive trees and vineyards. |