Day In Bonnieux Provence | Only Provence
Day In Bonnieux Provence
Bonnieux Provence is a great vacation spot. Bonnieux’s location is ideal it is close to several other notable Provencal villages - Lourmarin, Ménerbes, Lacoste, Roussillon, and Gordes. Dating back to Roman times. The view from Bonnieux is spectacular, with orchards and vineyards and a picturesque perched village of Lacoste across the Vaucluse plateau.
Bonnieux is a very impressive Luberon villages in its size and features. This village has plenty of restaurants, cafes and a great market, bakery museum. The market day is Friday with local crafts and produce.
Bonnieux, has a unique bread museum, the Musée de la Boulangerie, in a village house. You will learn all about how bread is made in the artisanal manner, it is something that you do not want to miss.
The church is located at the top of the village the 12th century, Roman/Gothic 'Vieille Eglise' and near the bottom is the much newer (1870) New Church ('Eglise Neuve') - no great beauty but home to some intensely painted scenes of the Passion of Christ. The church is an atmospheric setting for classical music concerts.
There are some beautiful villas in Bonnieux dating back to the 16th century. All this makes Bonnieux a great place to plan your next vacation.
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Enjoy your day In Bonnieux Provence
Gordes - Jewel of the Luberon
( Gordes is often described as the Jewel of the Luberon and claims to be the most beautiful village in France (well, they would, wouldn't they!). But you have to admit, there's some truth behind the hyperbole, and thousands of tourists every year flock to this picturesque perched village above the plain, and some stay - Sotheby's International Realty have an office there...
Tony and Helen explore Gordes after their walk from the nearby lavender fields at the Abbaye Notre Dame de Sénanque, on a beautiful sunny summer's afternoon. And take time out to enjoy the view from the Cercle Républicain Cafe ...
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Aix-en-Provence: Best Places to Visit in France.
Aix-en-Provence: Best Places to Visit in France.
What You Need to Know:
1. It's Cézanne territory
You can see this Post-Impressionist artist's studio, the mountain that inspired many of his famed works and a handful of his paintings at the Musée Granet all in Aix.
2. Aix is pronounced Ex
You'll mark yourself as a tourist if you pronounce this city's name like the wood-chopping implement ax — it's ex.
3. It’s a university town
Three universities call Aix their home, and quite a few exchange students from American universities are here year-round.
Aix-en-Provence: Best Places to Visit in France
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Luberon Provence France - Video Travel Guide [2018]
Visiting the Luberon Region in Provence [France]: spectacular countryside of vineyards and orchards, fascinating perched hill-top villages, outstanding natural produce and the light of Van Gogh and Cezanne.
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Visit Roussillon, France
Roussillon is situated in the Regional Park of the Luberon, region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Roussillon is one of the historical counties of the former Principality of Catalonia, corresponding roughly to the present-day southern French département of Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees). It may also refer to Northern Catalonia or French Catalonia, the first used by Catalan-speakers and the second used by French-speakers. A 1998 survey found that 34% of respondents stated they speak Catalan, and a further 21% understand it.
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Also a French province before the Revolution (and Spanish before the Thirty Years' War), Roussillon derived its name from Ruscino (Rosceliona, Castel Rossello), a small fortified place near modern-day Perpignan where Gaulish chieftains met to consider Hannibal's request for a conference. The region formed part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis from 121 BC to AD 462, when it was ceded with the rest of Septimania to the Visigoth Theodoric II. His successor, Amalaric, on his defeat by Clovis in 531 retired to Hispania, leaving a governor in Septimania.
In 719, the Saracens crossed the Pyrenees and maintained political hegemony of Septimania until their final defeat by Pepin the Short in 759, who went on to occupy Roussillon after conquering Narbonne. Roussillon was occupied by Carlolengians in 760. On the invasion of Hispania in 778, Charlemagne found the Marca Hispanica wasted by war and the inhabitants settled in the mountains. He granted some lands in the plains to Visigothic refugees from Moorish Hispania and founded several monasteries. In 792, the Saracens again invaded France, but they were repulsed by William, Count of Toulouse - regent of the child Louis the Pious, King of Aquitaine - whose hegemony extended into Catalonia.
The different portions of his kingdom in time grew into allodial fiefs, and in 893, Sunyer II became the first hereditary Count of Roussillon. But his rule only extended over the eastern part of what became the later province. The western part, the Cerdanya (French, Cerdagne), was ruled in 900 by Miró as first count, and one of his grandsons, Bernat, became the first hereditary count of the middle portion, or Besalú. The Counts of Roussillon were allied to their cousins the Counts of Empúries in a centuries-long conflict with the surrounding great nobles. Count Girard I participated in the First Crusade in the following of Raymond IV of Toulouse, and was one of the first to set foot in Jerusalem when it was stormed by the Crusaders in 1099. At the beginning of the 12th century, the prestige of the Counts of Barcelona began to rise to such a height that the Counts of Roussillon had no choice but to swear fealty to them.
In 1111, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, inherited the fief of Besalú, to which was added in 1117 Cerdanya. The possession of Roussillon by its last count, Girard II, was challenged by his illegitimate brothers. To ensure that his brothers would not inherit his territories, in his will Girard II left all his lands to Alfonso II of Aragon, who took possession in 1172. Under the Aragonese monarchs, economic and demographic growth of the region continued, and Collioure (Catalan: Cotlliure), the port of Perpignan, became an important locus of Mediterranean trade.[citation needed]
As the French and Spanish crowns grew in power, the region of Roussillon, forming part of the border between them, was frequently a site of military conflict. By the Treaty of Corbeil (1258), Louis IX of France formally surrendered sovereignty over Roussillon and his claim to the title of Count of Barcelona to the Crown of Aragon, recognizing a centuries-old reality.[citation needed]
James I of Aragon had wrested the Balearic Isles from the Moors and joined these islands with Roussillon to create the Kingdom of Majorca, with its capital at Perpignan. In 1276, James I granted this kingdom to his son, who became James II. The subsequent disputes of this monarch with his brother Peter III were exploited by Philip III of France in his quarrel with Peter III for the crown of the Two Sicilies. Philip III espoused James II's cause and led an army into Aragon but, retreating, died at Perpignan in 1285. Lacking the resources to continue the struggle, James then became reconciled to his brother Peter, and in 1311 the former was succeeded by his son Sanç I, or Sancho I, who founded the cathedral of Perpignan shortly before his death in 1324. His successor, James III of Majorca, refused to do homage to Philip VI of France for the seigneury of Montpellier, and applied to Peter IV of Aragon for aid. Peter not only refused, but declared war and seized Majorca and Roussillon in 1344.
Sénanque Abbey, Vaucluse, Provence, France, Europe
Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France. It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of Alfant, bishop of Cavaillon, and Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from Mazan Abbey in the Ardèche. Temporary huts housed the first community of impoverished monks. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to found Chambons Abbey, in the diocese of Viviers. The young community found patrons in the seigneurs of Simiane, whose support enabled them to build the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians. Among its existing structures, famed examples of Romanesque architecture, are the abbey church, cloister, dormitory, chapter house and the small calefactory, the one heated space in the austere surroundings, so that the monks could write, for this was their scriptorium. A refectory was added in the 17th century, when some minimal rebuilding of existing walls was undertaken, but the abbey is a remarkably untouched survival, of rare beauty and severity: the capitals of the paired columns in the cloister arcades are reduced to the simplest leaf forms, not to offer sensual distraction. The abbey church is in the form of a tau cross with an apse projecting beyond the abbey's outer walls. Somewhat unusually, its liturgical east end faces north, as the narrow and secluded valley offered no space for the conventional arrangement. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven granges and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509, when the first abbot in commendam was named, a sure sign of the decline of vocation, the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalized, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual. The site was repurchased in 1854 for a new community of Cistercian monks of the Immaculate Conception, under a rule less stringent than that of the Trappists. The community was expelled in 1903 and departed to the Order's headquarters, Lérins Abbey on the island of St. Honorat, near Cannes. A small community returned in 1988 as a priory of Lérins. The monks who live at Sénanque grow lavender (visible in front of the abbey, illustration, right) and tend honey bees for their livelihood. It is possible for individuals to arrange to stay at the abbey for spiritual retreat. Two other early Cistercian abbeys in Provence are Silvacane Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; with Sénanque, they are sometimes referred to as the Three Sisters of Provence (les trois soeurs provençales).
Pretty in Provence - Domaine Les Roullets, Provence, France
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Located near Gordes, Bonnieux, Ménerbes and Roussillon, this cosy and gorgeous property has five double rooms and a gite (French cottage) available. On site is also a heated pool surrounded by truly comfy sunbeds to soak up that South of France sunshine.
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Vacances dans le Sud-Est de la France
Septembre 2014 : villes, villages et sites visités.
Abbaye de Montmajour
Abbaye de Senanque
Abbaye de Silvacane
Abbaye St-Hilaire
Abbaye Saint-Roman
Aigueze
Alba-la-Romaine
Arles
Avignon
Balazuc
Barjac
Bonnieux
Chamaret
Chapelle saint-Sulpice
Chapelle Saint-Laurent
Charssiers
Chartreuse de Bonpas
Chartreuse de Valbonne
Chateau d'Allegre
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Colorado Provençal
Cornillon
Crestet
Crillon-le-Brave
Dentelles de Montmirail
Gordes
Gorges Ardèche
Gorges de la Beaume
Gorges de la Ligne
Gorges de la Nesque
Goudargues
Grignan
La garde Adhemar
La Roque-sur-Cèze
Labeaume
Largentière
Le Barroux
Le-Poët-Laval
Les Baux de provence
Lourmarin
Lussan
Menerbes
Mont Ventoux
Montclus
Mornas
Moulin de Daudet
Nimes
Nyons
Pont du Gard
Rochecolombe
Rochegude
Rochemaure
Rocher de Sampzon
Roussillon
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Sceautres
Seguret
Saint-Montant
Saint-Pantaleon
Suze-la-Rousse
Taillades
Tarascon
Taulignan
Uzes
Vaison-la-Romaine
Vallon-pont-d'Arc
Venasque
Village des Bories
Vogué