Wine and Rural Heritage - The Mont Ventoux Piedmont

Between Ventoux and Dentelles

Mont Ventoux Piedmont

The Comtat Terraces

The Nesque River Slopes

The Monts de Vaucluse

terroirs &
landscapes

cellars

paths &
hikes

to discover

Following the piedmont road means choosing the royal way – the road followed by the pilgrims during the Middle Ages, the path the botanists followed during the Enlightenment, the road faced by today’s athletes.
This is the magnificent road up a mountain described and painted a thousand times over … the emblematic profile emerging from a sea of vines.

THE MONT VENTOUX
PIEDMONT

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VINES AND
NATURAL
HERITAGE
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The Mont Ventoux Biosphere Reserve Mont Ventoux is a fascinating area that was ranked as a Natural Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1999.
This international label acknowledges the outstanding biodiversity, the cultural and historical riches, and the importance of the human activity that works in harmony with nature and the surroundings.

Piémont du Vaucluse - Mont Ventoux

The Biosphere Reserve seeks to reconcile protection of natural resources, countryside and ecosystems along with rational development of human activity.
Mont Ventoux is home to two major systems, for it holds both Mediterranean vegetation and Alpine vegetation.
The Biosphere Reserve includes vast forests of green oak, white oak, cedar, beech, larch, pine and fir.
There are also rare species such as Silene portensis

(campion), the Greenland poppy, Gentiana Alpina, and others.
Many animals live on Mont Ventoux, large mammals such as the chamois, stag and white-tailed deer, and majestic birds of prey such as the royal eagle and the peregrine falcon.

Piémont du Vaucluse - Flore

Address book

Caromb Tourism Office
Place du Cabaret
84330 Cabaret
Tél. 04 90 62 36 21
otcaromb@wanadoo.fr
www.ville-caromb.fr

Carpentras Tourism Office
Hôtel Dieu, PlaceAristide Briand
84200 Carpentras
Tél. 04 90 63 00 78
tourist.carpentras@
axit.fr
www.carpentras-ventoux.com

Bedoin Tourism Office
Espace Marie-Louis Gravier
84410 Bedoin
Tél. 04 90 65 63 95
office.tourisme.
bedoin@wanadoo.fr
www.bedoin.org

Carpentras museums:
Comtadin – Duplessis
Folk arts and traditions in the Comtat Venaissin. Visit the Duplessis museum for its collection of paintings showing the Comtat and the Ventoux region.

Région Ventoux.
842000 Carpentras
Tél. 04 90 63 04 92
Closed Tuesdays and holidays

For more information …

Association pour le Développement Touristique
For the Mont Ventoux – Comtat Venaissin – Sault area
www.destination-ventoux.com

Cyclo-Touring Board
Tél. 04 90 63 04 92
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/
cyclo-provence-alpes
Cycling discovery guide around Mont Ventoux, with 18 road and Mountain bike itineraries.

Reading material …

Le guide des pays du Ventoux
Dominique Bottani éditions La manufacture, 1991

Savours - Markets - Festivities