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4,5 km from Lourmarin Altitude: 141 m Population: 3143 A hilltop village in Provence, Lauris sits among the vineyards and olive trees that lie between the Luberon and the Durance. What to see and visit: the old village; the seventeenth and eighteenth-century fountains; the church, which was rebuilt in 1702 on the foundations of a fifteenth-century chapel; the wrought-iron campanile built in 1857, the castle, which was rebuilt in the eighteenth century on the ruins of a medieval fortress. |
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Provencal market : Monday morning. Organic market every Saturday afternoon. Christmas market on the first Saturday in December. Festivities : fair of the Chandeleur on the first Saturday in February. Plant festival on the second Sunday in April. Garage sale on Pentecostal Saturday. Patron saint's festival on the first Sunday in August. Festival of the Coucourde on the final weekend In September. Exhibition of artists during the first week in August. |