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Abbey with lavender fields. Sénanque Abbey (Occitan: abadiá de Senhanca, French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France.
Provence has a special place in the history of the motion picture – one of the first projected motion pictures, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train into La Ciotat Station), a fifty-second silent film, was made by Auguste and Louis Lumière at the train station of the coastal town of La Ciotat. It was shown to an ...
Le Lavandou (pronounced [lə lavɑ̃du]; Occitan: Lo Lavandor) is a seaside commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.Le Lavandou derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, [3] or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public ...
Sénanque Abbey was the first Cistercian monastery founded in Provence in 1148. The church was finished in 1178. A small community of monks still lives in the Abbey. The lavender fields around the Abbey make it one of the most photographed spots in Provence. Thoronet Abbey, in a remote valley near Draguignan, in the Var department, was founded ...
Mirabeau (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Mirabèu) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It has several buildings from the 13th century in the centre, including the Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine. [3]
La Palud-sur-Verdon (French pronunciation: [la paly syʁ vɛʁdɔ̃]; Occitan: La Palú de Verdon) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Lavender field of the village.
Lavender fields in Valensole. In the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department agriculture has had a very important place in the economy but the food-producing polyculture has given way to a much more specialized agriculture oriented around fruit, cereals and high value added products (honey, perfumes, and essential oils, cosmetics, olives, and wine).
Lavender oil: In 1981, the AOC label was given to Haute-Provence Lavender Essential Oil. It refers to a very high-quality production and concerns only the essential oil of fine lavender - Lavandula angustifolia. The fields must be located within a specific territory at a minimum altitude of 800 meters.
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