Le Vaucluse

The Vaucluse department in Provence, is one of the smallest in size but one of the richest of its historical diversitée Resources, natural and traditional departments, France orchards he seduced the Roman occupiers, which it has left some of his best work, the richness of its soil has made the pantry of France, that an agricultural land, located on the North-South axis popular with its river Rhone axis which the Borde, Hilltop fortified town and there are many clinging to the flank of the Luberon Vaucluse mountains ................

Dominated by the south face of Mont Ventoux, which Mont Serein and the Contract of the plateau down through a succession of ledges and hills to the Dentelles, this basin was filled by quaternary alluvium with deposits ranging from 20 to 80 meters. "orchards and garden of France"

The Monts de Vaucluse, limestone dug mass sinkholes and potholes are a natural extension of Ventoux and are separated by deep "gorges de la Nesque

Hydrography; This plain is irrigated in the northern part of the Toulourenc the Hérin Aygues and in its central part by the Nesque Auzon and Ouvèze, in its southern part by the different arms of the Sorgue] and Calavon that upon taking Comtat takes the name of Coulon.

The Mediterranean climate of Comtat is the mistral wind that sweeps the Rhone valley, the (man has adopted a specific agricultural architecture with cultivated fields separated by hedges of cypress oriented east / west and the northern facades of the houses without ouvertuire .