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Banon and its famous goat cheese
    On the Plateau d'Albion in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, surrounded by lavender fields and vast plains of wheat between the ‘Montagne de Lure’ and the Mont Ventoux, the village of Banon. The village is built on a mountain at an altitude of 760 meters and has magnificent view of the Vallée de Coulon. In the medieval part of Banon you can still see the remains of the ramparts of the old castle. This 15th century 10 meters high town wall had a more ... Click to preview pictures
Banon
Barret de Lioure
In the most southern part of the Drome, adjacent to the Vaucluse, Alpes de Haute Provence and Hautes Alpes is situated Barret de Lioure, a typical medieval village built on a rock at an altitude of 978 meters. Barret the Lioure overlooks the Vallée de l'Anary with separate rocks as stone piles reaching high above the often cloudless sky and southwest of the majestic mountains of the Mont Ventoux. Barret and its area have a dry and sunny climate, both summer and winter, and counts more ... Click to preview pictures
Barret de Lioure
Beaumes de Venise And its delicious Muscat vine
If you're coming from the D7 from Caprentras, the village of Beaumes de Venise - in Provencal also called 'Beaumas the Veniso' – appears at the foot of the Dentelles de Montmirail. The Provencal village with its stone houses, as it were built into the huge massif that in this way became an onshore natural protection against the Mistral. The massif Dentelles de Montmirail is a beautiful and less than 8 km long mountain range - Montmirail comes from Latin and means more ... Click to preview pictures
Beaumes de Venise
Bédoin At the foot of the Mont Ventoux
In the Vaucluse, at the foot of the Mont Ventoux with an altitude of 300 meters, appears the charming village Bédoin. Spread out over an area of more than 9 acres Bédoin comprises twenty hamlets, each with its own patrimonial richness. Two third of the area is covered with forest and is therefore one of the largest communal forests in France. <!--break--> Like many other villages in the Provence, Bédoin is surrounded by sunny vineyards and can certainly be seen more ... Click to preview pictures
Bédoin
Brantes Facing the giant Mont Ventoux
In the north of the Vaucluse, on the border of the Drôme provençale, you can find the little village of Brantes. Set in the Toulourenc valley, the village is perched on the side of the Pié-Chastel cliff where the Mont Ventoux dominates with its typical white top, all year long. Brantes also has a medieval castle, like the surrounded villages of Reilhanette and Montbrun-les-Bains. Only some parts of its walls remain as well as two cisterns.   Brantes had some more ... Click to preview pictures
Brantes