Things to see and do Vaucluse

It includes the following towns: Apt, Ménerbes, Roussillon, Viens, Bonnieux, Lacoste, Goult, Saignon, Caseneuve, Joucas, Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt, Villars, Saint-Martin-de-Castillon, Saint-Pantaléon, Lioux, Buoux, Murs, Lagarde-d'Apt, Sivergues, Gignac, Gargas, Rustrel, Céreste, Castellet, Auribeau.

It was housed in the episcopal palace in 1801, and was rebuilt in 1646 in a Roman style: prominent balconies, bossed pilasters, enormous ledges... It contains admirable decors painted by Romanelli in the 17th century. Place du Palais, known as "Sextier", was bordered to the West by the convent of the Ursulines whose prayers were sometimes disturbed by turmoil of the daily life. Mgr Buti wrote a letter to the pope Innocent XII on 23 August 1694, complaining that young people play ball on the place - so that the nuns and the pupils could hear the licentious, obscene and sacrileges words of the players, but also see them playing fully stripped of their clothing. So, the vice-legate prohibited the ball game, on penalty of a fine of 100 crowns.

Some fifteen communes are covered by the Destination Luberon tourist office, including Cavaillon and the most beautiful villages of Gordes and Oppède in the north of the Luberon, and Lourmarin and Lauris in the south. There's something going on all year round. At the tourist office, you'll find documentation on the region and advice on what to see and do. On the website, you'll find a schedule of guided tours, events and festivities.

Offices Monday to Friday at p. m., Sundays at p. m., p. m. (Gregorian mass) and p. m. (evensong).

The church was rebuilt in 1867 on the site of the former Augustinian monastery of the 12th century. In 1987, after  being abandoned for 25 years, the cultural centre moved there, thus profiting from the many rooms of this magnificent building and its extraordinary vaulted show room. All murals paintings of Charles Barbentan are still visible in the sumptuous room on the 1st floor.

The Hotel Dieu de Carpentras, built in the middle of the XVIIIᵉ century, was one of the hospitals of the capital of the Comtat Venaissin, with its 10,000^{m2 of} surface area, it was the most imposing. It was commissioned by Joseph-Dominique d'Inguimbert, known as Dom Malachie, bishop of Carpentras. Its construction began in 1750, and it was served, according to the will of the bishop, by hospitable nuns from 1764. Beautifully renovated, the building houses since 2017 the Library-Museum L'Inguimbertine. Guided tours are proposed by the O.T. Registration is compulsory.

In the cobbled and vaulted cellars of this beautiful mansion of the 16th century, Hôtel de Brancas, you will discover an amazing collection of fifty bikes, from the velocipede of 1870 to the bike Paris-Beijing 2008, through the historical tandem of the first paid holidays in 1936. In the city that saw the birth of the famous Vélocio (Paul de Vivie, 1853-1930), brilliant inventor and figure of bicycle touring which significantly contributed to the improvement of cycles (detachable hubs, shifting of speed, equiangular frames, ...), Musée Comtadin du Cycle is of course a must-see!

Pernes has made a small "secular miracle" with its chapel of White Penance, as it has become a centrepiece of pernoise cultural activity. Located in 1152 on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to Diane, she was the first church in the village. Intimately interwoven in the heart of its medieval rampart, it almost disappeared several times during its nine centuries of history. The twentieth and his escapades were almost right from her, exhausting to ruin and the her into the forgotten memory after the opening of the Augustins cultural centre, in another historic church in the city. Priory, chapel, place of catechism, daycare, nursery school, variety room, festive room… It is finally in 2004 that the chapel opens its doors to the public and finds all its youth together with its walls, its soil, its alcoves, its original niches and its two mini chapels.

Offices on Monday, Thursday and Friday at a. m. and Sundays at 10 p. m.

Pedestrian, what a delight! We leave a shop to go to another, and so on until the wallet is flat like a flounder! Suffice to say that it is a street that proudly bears its name, that's it. Among its shops, there are also small jewels, including the magnificent Chapellerie Mouret, renovated while maintaining the authenticity of the 19th century. For this reason, it is classified as a Historical Monument. Cheaper, free look at the only half-timbered house in the city dated 14th-15th centuries. Superb!