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The Fontaine de Vaucluse

Provence's Resurgent Spring

In a closed valley, or Vallis Clausa from which the Vaucluse département takes its name, beneath the Vaucluse Plateau and not far from L’Isle-sur-la-Sorge lies the small Provençal of village of Fontaine de Vaucluse.

This pretty village is famous for two main reasons. Firstly there is the association with the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch and secondly, not unconnected to the first, its magnificent resurgent spring, the Fontaine de Vaucluse itself.

In the centre the small Romanesque church of St-Véran contains the sarcophagus of St-Veranus. The saint apparently dealt with Coulobre, the monster guilty of troubling the locals from its lair in the fountain’s cave.

Francesco Petrarch lived here

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Provence

Images by Paul Shawcross, Photo by Paul Shawcross