Sous le nom récent de « Village des bories » existe, à 1,5 km à l'ouest de Gordes (Vaucluse), un ancien groupement d'une vingtaine de cabanes en pierre sèche (montées sans mortier) à vocation agricole et à usage principalement saisonnier, constitué depuis trois décennies en musée de plein air.
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Village des Bories is an open-air museum of 20 or so dry stone huts located 1.5 km west of the Provençal village of Gordes, in the Vaucluse department of France. The area was once an outlying district of the village, under the official name of 'Les Savournins', while the grouping of huts were called 'Les Cabanes' in local parlance.
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Gordes is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The residents are known as Gordiens. The nearest big city is Avignon; smaller settlements nearby include Cavaillon, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Apt.
The town is one of the most visited villages in the Luberon Regional Natural Park. It is located on the outskirts of the Park in the Monts de Vaucluse, which faces the northern slope of the Luberon mountain.
Perched on a rock, the town is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France Association due to its rich and varied heritage: two abbeys, a castle, many old hamlets, several hundred dry stone huts, several windmills and water-mills, fountains, wash houses, and bories, a type of basin chiseled in rock.
According to the ranking of the most beautiful villages in the world published on 12 February 2023 on the website of Travel + Leisure, an American travel magazine, Gordes is considered the "most beautiful village in the world," ahead of the Japanese village of Shirakawa-go and Giethoorn in the Netherlands.
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Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France.
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Cabrières-d'Avignon is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
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The Fontaine de Vaucluse is a karst spring in the commune of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, France. It is the largest karst spring in metropolitan France by flow and fifth largest in the world, with an annual output of 630,000,000 to 700,000,000 cubic metres of water. The spring is the prime example in hydrogeology of a "Vaucluse spring". It is the source of the Sorgue.