Roussillon holiday apartment

Roussillon and the Luberon: Roussillon attracts and inspires its fair share of painters, poets and musicians. It looks stunning whatever the season, perched high on an ochre crag above the Luberon valley. The Luberon mountain is to the south, the Monts de Vaucluse to the north. In between are the patchwork of vineyards, orchards, cypress trees and olive groves, with the occasional hill-top village dotting the landscape as a point of reference. This is the Provence you see in calendars and coffee-table books. You can explore this land on foot, on a bike, by car, on horseback, even by hot-air balloon. Most of the villages here are rightly enshrined in the association of the Most Beautiful Villages in France: Roussillon itself, Menerbes (home of 'A Year in Provence'), Bonnieux, Gordes, Lacoste, Oppede-le-vieux, Lourmarin, Goult, St Saturnin, etc.

What to do: Here are some ideas for things you HAVE to do near Roussillon: Visit the village markets, a different one every day of the week.....Walk round Roussillon's ochre quarry and on to the Colorado de Rustrel.....Go to Isle-sur-Sorgue, France's antiques capital....See the ruins of the Marquis de Sade's castle at Lacoste....Learn to paint sunflowers, or lavender, or cherry blossom, depending on the time of year.....Picnic in the cedar forests outside Bonnieux.....Lazy meals outside, and maybe cycle between villages to burn the calories.....Explore Marseille, France's second city, just over an hour away.....Check out the mysterious Fontaine de Vaucluse, where the Sorgue river gushes out of the ground.....Pop over to Gordes with its fancy restaurants and boutiques, as well as the very picturesque Senanque Abbey and Bories Village.....Taste the wines of the Luberon at any of the wineries, or for great wines head up the Rhone wine trail....Go to the top of Mont Ventoux for a view of the Alps

More pictures and information: Many more pictures of the house, and lots of pages on the area, the Luberon and Provence at my own site - email me for the address.

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