Vaucluse

The department of Vaucluse [ vokly ː z] is a French department of order number 84 It is in the southeast of the country in the region Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur and was after the town (now Fontaine -de- Vaucluse) named.

Geography

The department of Vaucluse bordered by the departments of Gard, Ardèche, Drôme, Alpes -de -Haute- Provence, Bouches -du -Rhône, as well as a few hundred meters to the Var. The most important river is the Rhone, which marks the western border of the department. The Durance forms the southern boundary of the department, it opens at Avignon in the Rhône.

The highest point is 1,912 m Mont Ventoux. The Luberon Mountains in the south of the department reached the peak of Mourre Nègre a height of 1,125 m.

Coat of arms

Description: The quartered in red and blue coat of arms shows in the first field, the binding key and the fourth three golden lying key with the beard down, in the second a golden lily, the symbol of the French monarchy, under a red dreilätzigen Tournament collar and in the third box, type a green branch with golden globular fruit with a golden head of the shield with a blue bugle.

Administrative divisions

• Communes of the Vaucluse department
• List of cantons in the department of Vaucluse

Places and sights

Known locations are:

• Avignon
• Gordes with its Bories: igloo -like structures made of stacked and not with mortar or similar related field stones, the walls of which are united to the roof.
• Roussillon with its red ocher earth.
• The Abbey Sénanque near Gordes
• Orange
• Vaison -la -Romaine with the old Roman settlement and its large market of Provence
• The Mont Ventoux
• The source of the river Sorgue in Fontaine- de -Vaucluse

Source of the Sorgue pond in Fontaine- de -Vaucluse at low water

Mourre Nègre photographed by a western neighbors