Gordes

Gordes climbs a limestone outcrop of the Monts de Vaucluse, looking across the Calavon plain to the Luberon. Around the castle at its top spread hamlets, mills, fountains and hundreds of dry-stone huts called bories, and to the west lies the Cistercian abbey of Sénanque, among lavender fields. Artists helped revive the village after the Second World War.

Highlights

• Sénanque Abbey, founded in 1148 and framed by lavender in summer
• The château at the heart of the village (FR)
• The Village des Bories, a cluster of dry-stone huts
• The museum of glass and stained glass, with an old olive-oil mill
• The 15th-century church of Saint-Firmin and the Saint-Firmin palace cellars

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.