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Ventoux AOC (French pronunciation:; known as Côtes du Ventoux AOC until 2008 [1]) is a wine-growing AOC in the southeastern region of the Rhône wine region of France, where the wines are produced in 51 communes of the Vaucluse département along the lower slopes of the Ventoux mountain and at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains.
Mont Ventoux (French: [mɔ̃ vɑ̃tu]; Provençal: Ventor) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme .
Ventoux may refer to: Mont Ventoux; Renault Ventoux engine; Ventoux AOC, a French wine appellation formerly known as Côtes du Ventoux This page was last edited on 29 ...
The altitude varies between 300 and 1,000 m (980 and 3,280 ft). West of Mont Ventoux, Les Dentelles de Montmirail (The Laces of Montmirail), which has an altitude of 722 m (2,369 ft), take their name from the shape obtained by the erosion of the rock. [3] The Luberon regional natural park extends to the southern part of the massif. [4]
It is often claimed that Petrarch was the first to climb Mont Ventoux, although he did not suggest so himself. The mountain was likely already climbed in prehistoric times. There is even a slightly older written account of an ascent by Jean Buridan , who, on his way to the papal court in Avignon before the year 1334, climbed Mt. Ventoux "to ...
The engine is liquid-cooled, with four cylinders in line.It is also characterised by its three main bearing design and its piston stroke of 80 mm (3.15 in). It has a cast-iron block, aluminium cylinder head and uses a lateral camshaft to operate overhead valves, which also operated the fan belt on its other end.
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Beaumont-du-Ventoux (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃ dy vɑ̃tu]; Occitan: Bèumont dau Ventor) is a rural commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 296.