The castle
Renaissance.
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Gordes is a hilltop village in the Vaucluse department of Provence, southeast France, about 32 km east of Avignon and 70 km north of Marseille in a straight line. It is one of the most visited villages in the Luberon Regional Natural Park. It sits on the edge of the park in the Monts de Vaucluse, facing the northern slope of the Luberon. It belongs to the «Most Beautiful Villages of France» association for its heritage: two abbeys, a castle, old hamlets and hundreds of dry-stone huts known as bories, along with windmills, springs and old wash houses. The village's honey-coloured stone houses pile up a steep rocky slope around a Renaissance castle with round towers, so from afar it seems to grow out of the rock. Below it stretch the plains of Provence, with vineyards and fields reaching to the Luberon. Visitors stop at the viewpoint on the road below the village for its famous picture, then climb into its narrow stone lanes and cafés. Nearby are the Village des Bories and lavender fields that bloom in July.
Renaissance.
The classic view.
Blooms in July.
Gordes, Vaucluse, Provence, France
From the road below the village.
Around July.