Vaucluse
Vaucluse is a department of the Provence region of France. The Vaucluse retains in part its historical identity as the Comtat Venaissin, an independent papal entity until the 1791 post-Revolutionary annexation by France.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Avignon and Orange.
Avignon
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Avignon is the capital of the French department of Vaucluse in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and is on the banks of the Rhône river. Avignon was one of the European Cities of Culture in 2000 and its historical centre has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Orange
Orange is a small town in southern France famous for its well-preserved Roman architecture and its music festival. Its Roman theatre is the most impressive still existing in Europe.
Carpentras
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Carpentras is part of the historical and cultural entity of the Comtat Venaissin and in the French administrative department of Vaucluse. It is best seen during the weekly market that fills the old town on Friday mornings.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cavaillon and Gordes.
Cavaillon
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Cavaillon is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It is situated in the Durance Valley, at the foot of the Luberon mountains.
Gordes
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Gordes is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The residents are known as Gordiens. The nearest big city is Avignon; smaller settlements nearby include Cavaillon, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Apt.
Mont Ventoux
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Mont Ventoux is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme.
Vaison-la-Romaine
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Vaison-la-Romaine is in Vaucluse. The city is best known for its beautiful Roman remains including a single-arch bridge, and for its medieval city and its cathedral.
L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
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L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a town and commune on the Sorgue river in Southeastern France. Politically, the commune is in the arrondissement of Avignon within the department of Vaucluse, in the région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Lourmarin
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Lourmarin is a small town in Vaucluse that is classified among the most beautiful villages in France.
Luberon
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The Luberon is a massif in central Provence in Southern France, part of the French Prealps. It has a maximum elevation of 1,256 metres and an area of about 600 square kilometres.
Vaucluse
- Type: department of France with 552,000 residents
- Description: department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
- Also known as: “Departement du Vaucluse” and “Département du Vaucluse”
- Neighbors: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Ardèche and Drôme, Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard, and Var
- Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vaucluse” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vaucluse”
- Albanian: “Vaucluse”
- Albanian: “Vaukluza”
- Arabic: “فوكلوز”
- Aragonese: “Vauclusa”
- Armenian: “Վոքլյուզ”
- Arpitan: “Vâlcllusa”
- Azerbaijani: “Voklüz departamenti”
- Azerbaijani: “Voklüz”
- Balinese: “Vaucluse”
- Basque: “Vaucluse”
- Belarusian: “Ваклюз”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Ваклюз”
- Bengali: “ভক্লুস”
- Breton: “Vauclusa”
- Breton: “Vaucluse”
- Bulgarian: “Воклюз”
- Catalan: “Valclusa”
- Cebuano: “Vaucluse”
- Chechen: “Воклуьз”
- Chinese: “Vaucluse”
- Chinese: “沃克吕兹省”
- Chinese: “沃克呂茲省”
- Chinese: “禾克呂茲”
- Chuvash: “Воклюз”
- Czech: “Vaucluse”
- Danish: “Vaucluse”
- Dutch: “Vaucluse (departement)”
- Dutch: “Vaucluse”
- Esperanto: “Vaucluse”
- Estonian: “Vaucluse’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Vaucluse”
- French: “département de Vaucluse”
- French: “Vaucluse”
- Galician: “Vaucluse”
- Georgian: “ვოკლიუზი”
- Georgian: “ვოკლუზის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Département Vaucluse”
- German: “FR-84”
- German: “Vaucluse”
- Greek: “Βωκλύζ”
- Gujarati: “વૌક્લોઝ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vaucluse-sén”
- Hebrew: “ווקלוז”
- Hindi: “वॉक्लूस”
- Hungarian: “Vaucluse”
- Indonesian: “Vaucluse”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Vaucluse”
- Irish: “Vaucluse”
- Italian: “Valchiusa”
- Italian: “Vaucluse”
- Japanese: “ヴォクリューズ県”
- Kannada: “ವಾಕ್ಲುಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Воклюз”
- Kongo: “Vaucluse”
- Korean: “보클뤼즈주”
- Kurdish: “Vaucluse”
- Ladin: “Vaucluse”
- Ladino: “Vaucluse”
- Latin: “Vallis Clausa”
- Latvian: “Voklīza”
- Limburgan: “Vaucluse”
- Lithuanian: “Vokliūzas”
- Lombard: “Vaucluse”
- Low German: “Vaucluse”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Vaucluse”
- Macedonian: “Воклиз”
- Malagasy: “Vaucluse”
- Malay: “Vaucluse”
- Marathi: “व्हॉक्ल्युझ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vaucluse”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaucluse (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaucluse”
- Northern Sami: “Vaucluse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaucluse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaucluse”
- Norwegian: “Vaucluse”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Vauclusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vauclusa”
- Ossetian: “Воклюз”
- Pampanga: “Vaucluse”
- Persian: “وکلوز”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Vaucluse”
- Polish: “Vaucluse”
- Portuguese: “Vaucluse”
- Romanian: “departamentul Vaucluse”
- Romanian: “Vaucluse”
- Russian: “Воклюз”
- Scots: “Vaucluse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vaucluse”
- Serbian: “Воклиз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaucluse”
- Sinhala: “වවුක්ලුසේ”
- Slovak: “Vaucluse”
- Slovenian: “Vaucluse”
- South Azerbaijani: “وکلوز”
- Spanish: “Vaucluse”
- Swahili: “Vaucluse”
- Swedish: “Vaucluse”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Воклюз”
- Tamil: “வாக்கிலுசே”
- Telugu: “వాక్లూజ్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโวกลูซ”
- Tibetan: “ཝོ་ཁ་ལུ་ཟེ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Vaucluse”
- Turkish: “Vaucluse”
- Ukrainian: “Воклюз”
- Urdu: “وکلوز”
- Uzbek: “Vaucluse”
- Venetian: “Vaucluse”
- Vietnamese: “Vaucluse”
- Vlaams: “Vaucluse”
- Volapük: “Vaucluse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vaucluse”
- Welsh: “Vaucluse”
- Western Frisian: “Vaucluse”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع وکلائز”
- Wu Chinese: “沃克吕兹省”
- Yue Chinese: “禾克呂茲”
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