The village of Gordes is one of the most famous in Provence.
Facing the Luberon massif, is the archetypal hilltop village. The village
is built around a castle rebuilt in the 16th century. It houses the tourist
office and a museum dedicated to the work of Belgian painter Pol Mara.
The exceptionally pure sky, the sunlight blazing through the walls of
its limestone architecture, natural beauty of the site were first drawn
in Gordes artists of the 20th century as Marc Chagall and Vasarely who
made it famous. Nearby, the village of Gordes is the same Sénanque
Abbey, the most famous abbeys of Provence, one of which we find the photograph
in any guide to Provence with its lavender fields in bloom. There are
also the village of Gordes the "Village des Bories", a village
of stone houses, dry remarkable testimony of a popular architectural knowledge
back down through the ages. Find pictures in Gordes
Gordes and the Abbey
of Senanque reports on Horizon Provence.
