Carpentras capital of Comtat Venaissin, offers to the lovers of the old stones a rich patrimony illustrating its past loaded(charged) with history.

It is by walking you at random streets of the centre and alleys bathed by coolness and by light that you will discover the treasures of the city: The door of Orange vestiges of the former(old) fortifications, the episcopal palace, the cathedral St Siffrein, the Hotel - god and its magnificent pharmacy of the XVIII ° century... Be attentive to the facades of the houses which you will cross, you will be able to see particular hotels of the XVII ° and XVIII ° with very beautiful doors and balconies restored in the purest Provençal tradition.
Since the Antiquity, Carpentras was always a city of market, Greek and phocéens already came there to buy honey, wheat and sheeps. She(it) even keeps(preserves) today the tradition, the colored market of on Friday morning enjoys a reputation in all the region.