Gordes

Places to see: Pol Mara museum, Abbey of Sénanque, Chaplaincy St Jacques.
Market: Tuesday morning
Source: www.gordes-village.com

This village can pride itself with being one of the most beautiful villages in France, with its cobbled streets creeping between tall houses built right against the rock, clinging against its flanks and whispering a thousand stories and legends. Gordes is also proud of its beautiful castle proudly standing in its heart, reminding us of a past rich in both conquests and suffering. It now houses the Pol Mara Museum and the Town Hall.
Gordes also preserves on its land, the village des Bories, these curious round dry-stone constructions, the abbey of Sénanque confined in its green dale, the moulin (mill) des Bouillons and the cellars of the Palace of San Firmin.
Gordes has nurtured in its midst an artistic spirit with illustrious painters such as André Lhote, Marc Chagall, Jean Deyrolle, Victor Vasarely and Pol Mara, among others, who found inspiration here.