Luberon offers splendid village to us perched, chiefs of work of imagination and audacity proudly drawing up their beautiful constructions between sky and ground, a such challenge at the time which passes.
They are today for the walker an invitation with the dawdling, randomly of the labyrinth of their beautiful caladées lanes. Let allure itself by these bell-towers drawn up towards the sky, by these mysterious doors containing of the secular secrecies or by these fountains where water runs out slowly, like time.

A little history:
Except for the first oppidums, these ancient fortified camps of which some go back to the time of the Ligurians (before the Roman occupation), the perched villages of the luberon are for the majority of medieval invoice.
They were set up, either on rocky outcrops, or with hillside. Their configuration is practically always the same one: the dwellings, encircled of a rampart, order around a castle itself strengthened. Constructions, high and tight, with small openings to protect from heat and cold, seem sometimes directly cut in the rock. The choice of these high positions ensured a better defense of course, but allowed, moreover, at the villages, to communicate between them by signals.
At the 16th century, they were for the majority the theatre of bloody confrontations during the massacre and wars of religion notament of of the Of Vaud one.

Nature is always amazing in Luberon and ochres are one of the best illustrations. This ground of fire offers a pallet to the single colors, white with the sharpest red, yellow with the purple one.

The ochre layers of the luberon are among richest of the world of share their variety and their output and are generating of craft industry and industry in the area.
Ochre, it is before any Roussillon. Village perched with the multicoloured frontages, it is the window of all the cordial tone that nature gave to this site. Precipitate with the path of ochres and discover all the secrecies of this ground of blood.

Ochre, it is also Colorado provencal of Rustel with its circuses and its chimneys of fairies. Take a few hours for a true Indian of America. Nothing misses: the plugging light, rocks for embusquer and this scarlet ground to make up itself like a warrior Sioux. One moment of pure happiness for the children and largest.

What is what ochre? From or it comes?
The sea remained present in the area during 120 million years. While being withdrawn, it left a greensand. Washed by abundant tropical rains, ils' deteriorated and the oxidation of the iron which it contained transformed it into ochreous sand.
To obtain ochre, it is necessary to separate the ore from sand by washing. One leaves then ochre sècher then one crushes it until obtaining a fine powder. One can by cooking transform yellow ochre into red blood stone.

Country where nature is queen, Luberon is drawn up like a border between Mediterranean Provence and alpine Provence. Fauna and the flora particularly rich and are diversified. The landscapes are single, that they wild or are scheduled by the work of the man who knew to give to this sovereign nature a face all in harmony and balance.

Luberon, they is 152.000 hectares of happiness and dream: peaks of the solid mass to the imposing panoramas, throats boxed, garrigues, forests of oaks, cedars, bucolic fields of olive-trees and cherry trees. The walker will be able only to appreciate these magic places, because it should be said, in spite of its succés tourist Luberon knew to keep its authentic character and to safeguard this nature which gave him so much.

“To know this country, he is necessary to come there by dust from the ways, the head in the clouds”, said François Morénas. Then do not hesitate, a whole variety of means are placed at your disposal to forget your car and to parcourrir with foot, horse, bicycle and even in the montgolfier this area enchanter. Let allure itself by the country where the light is scented.

Luberon is the ideal area for the practice of various sports activities. Its preserved natural space makes the paradise of the hikers of them, whether it is with foot, bicycle or horse.
If you choose a discovery of the area to foot, a vast network of marked out paths, accessible to all, including three GR. and many PR, will enable you to survey the hills and to discover extraordinary landscapes and of a great diversity.

The park régionnal worked out, for the touring cyclists, a route of 236 km around the solid mass which crosses the most beautiful villages and ventures in the most prestigious sites. The empreintées roads are attended little and the well signposted routes.

In love ones with the climbing will pouront to practise their favorite sport in many sites of which some classified among most prestigious of Europe.

Multiple activities are still practicable in the area and you will be able to devote yourselves inter alia to the parapente, with the overflight in the montgolfier, the descent of river in the canoe. Professionals are installed a little everywhere and are ready to make you share their passion. Do not hesitate to contact them.

Luberon, mountain mystical inspired a multitude of artists from time immemorial. Many authors such as Giono, Camus, Henri Bosco, the poets Rene Tank, Clovis Hugues inter alia, praised the charms and the beauty of this area.

Country of the color and the light par excellence, Luberon is also a place of predilection for the painters. Picasso, Vasarely, Nicolas de Stael remained there and there found a time their inspiration.

The history goes up here with antiquity: The area has consequently a rich person architectural heritage. Religious monuments (churches, abbeys), castles and other vestiges with remarkable architecture, each recess tells a history.
Discover the roads with topic which furrow Luberon: road of of Vaud, road of the Jewish inheritance, road of the Roman life.

Astonishing museums shelter sometimes treasures, sometimes of simple usual, modest objects pilot one completed time.
The jovial and accessible character of luberonnais encouraged since always, a whole tradition of festivals and festivals: music with Ansouis, laughter with Cavaillon, evenings of summer of Gordes, harms of the jazz Lauris, Musicales of Oppède, lyric art with Lacoste. A whole range of festivities to be consumed without moderation.

“It is good melons only with Cavaillon”! That they of Charente-native race or are embroidered, they will level you all the summer.

Traditional culture since the Roman time, the vines of Luberon give a grape whose generosity makes the quality of the wines of the area. Three names divide the territory: coast of Luberon, coast of the ventoux and côteau of pierrevert. These wines will accompany volontier a farm cheese of chêvre by the many local producers.
The scented flora of the hills constitutes a medium more than favorable to the life and the development of the bees. The honey of Luberon is tasty, particularly the honey of lavender.
Lastly, jewel of the gastronomy, the truffle, commonly appellée here rabasse it, abounds in Luberon. Encouraged by the favorable composition of the ground, of many plantations of truffle chenes were born for the greatest pleasure of the gastronomes.