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Tips for Drivers
Tour length: 40 km (25 miles).
Stopping-off points: Ménerbes
has several cafés, Bonnieux is
good for lunch and the Cedar
Forest has attractive picnic spots.
Lourmarin, where Albert Camus
lived and was buried, is handy
for the Petit and Grand Luberon.
All these villages are small, and
The rugged peaks of the Petit Luberon quickly fill with cars, so you may
have to walk some distance, and
even climb to castle heights.
2 Ménerbes ∑ parcduluberon.fr
At the foot of this stronghold of
16th-century Calvinists is the Musée
du Tire-Bouchon, a fascinating 4 Bonnieux
collection of corkscrews, dating The Musée de la Boulangerie gives
from the 17th century.
a history of bread making. From
here the two-hour Cedar
3 Lacoste Forest Botanical Trail is a
Little remains of the Marquis pleasant, scenic walk.
de Sade’s château. Arrested for
corrupt practices in 1778, he
spent 12 years in prison writing
up his experiences.

Abbaye St-Hilaire

Montagne du Luberon

5 Lourmarin
The Countess of Agoult, whose family
owned the village château, bore the
composer Franz Liszt (1811–86) three
children: one married Richard Wagner. Aix-en-Provence

Wild boar (Sus scrofa, known as Eagle owl (Bubo bubo, known Beaver (Castor fiber, known as
C C
sanglier in French) is a hunter’s as dugas in Provençal) is judged Castor in French) builds dams astor in French) builds dams astor
prize and a chef’s delight. Europe’s largest owl. on the Calavon and Durance.
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