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. In winter and spring the water wells up and overflows in a torrent; in summer it lies still and emerald green.
The village has an old paper mill still making paper by hand. The poet Petrarch lived here in the 14th century.
A hilltop village in the Luberon, painted in every shade of red, orange and yellow from the ochre quarried here for centuries.
The largest Gothic palace in the world, built in the 14th century when the popes lived in Avignon instead of Rome.
The bridge of the famous children's song 'Sur le pont d'Avignon'.
A 14th-century fortress on a hill across the Rhône from Avignon, built by the French kings to watch over the papal city.
The ruins of a Greek and Roman town at the foot of the Alpilles hills, with temples, baths, a forum and houses.
A great Benedictine abbey on a rocky hill outside Arles, with a Romanesque church, a cloister with carved capitals and a fortified tower.
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