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Access:
Aeroports:
Marseille-Marignan (65 km) and Avignon ( 45 km)
Nimes (109 km)
TGV train stations:
Marseille (70 km) and
Avignon (50 km)
Autoroute:
A7, sortie Avignon Sud |
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Roundabout
the Countryside:
The region offers a great variety of excursions and centres of interest.
Picturesque villages, notably Gordes, the most famous of them, the
chateaux of Luberon the circuit of Roman churches, two Cistercian
abbeys, the Colorado of Rustrel and Roussillon and the castle of
the Marquis de Sade at Lacoste.
This is the region of festivals, picturesque markets and antique
fairs. You taste the generous wines of the Ventoux and the Luberon,
the goat cheeses, the succulent truffels, the melons and the traditional
conserved fruit.
Some activities:
Numerous equestrian centres - Golf at L'Isle sur la Sorgue (30 km)
- A school of paragliding at Rustrel (10 km) - Famous rock climbing
areas at Buoux ( 5 km) - Wind surfing, tennis and bicycle trails
at Apt.
Some visits and excursions:
La Forêt des Cèdres (The cedars' forest) near Bonnieux (10 km)
Village of Bories near Gordes (20 km)
L'Isle sur la Sorgue, capital of antiques (30 km)
Fontaine de Vaucluse, famous for Laura and Petrarch (30 km)
Music Festival at Aix-en-Provence ( 50 km)
Arles and Nîmes, Roman cities, and Van Gogh-Museum (75 km)
Marseille, Phonecian city, numerous monuments and museums (70 km)
Avignon, the Palace of the Popes, the city wall, the Theatre Festival
(50 km)
The Carthusian monastery and abbey at Villeneuve les Avignon (55
km)
The villlages of Banon, Simiane, Vachères
The Oppedette's Canyon
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