The Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux has impressed for thousands of years. Already the poet Petrarch, contemporary of the popes in Avignon, had climbed its wooded slopes and crossed the limestone rocky desert that encircles its summit like a crown, giving the impression from afar of a cap of eternal snow. Writings have come down to us from his adventure. Today, the Ventoux still welcomes poets and artists. But it also attracts more widely all nature lovers: hikers who come here in search of coolness in summer, cyclists and mountain bikers…
Vaucluse museums
Villages and landscapes are not the only tourist attractions of the department. Several dozen museums welcome you in the Luberon, on the slopes of the Ventoux and in the Comtat Venaissin: you will like for example the Lambert Collection in Avignon, the history museum of L’Appel de la Liberté in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, the lapidary museum in Avignon, the Francesco Petrarch Museum in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, the Donadeï de Campredon museum in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the Bakery museum in Bonnieux…
