Vaucluse

Travel tips for Vaucluse (4)

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  Palais des Papes, Avignon

  The largest Gothic palace in the world, built in the 14th century when the popes lived in Avignon instead of Rome.

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  Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

  The mysterious source of the River Sorgue, a deep pool at the foot of a 230-metre cliff, one of the largest springs in the world.

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  Pont Saint-Bénézet (Pont d'Avignon)

  The bridge of the famous children's song 'Sur le pont d'Avignon'.

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  Roussillon and the Ochre Trail

  A hilltop village in the Luberon, painted in every shade of red, orange and yellow from the ochre quarried here for centuries.