Day 1 of 3Day 1109:00 – 10:30·1h 30mL'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue antiques and canalsThe Venice of Provence wakes early: mossy waterwheels, canal-side cafés and three hundred antique dealers. Sunday adds the famous market — plan around it if you can.L'Isle-sur-la-SorgueDriving·15m211:00 – 12:15·1h 15mFontaine-de-Vaucluse spring walkThe Sorgue erupts fully-formed from a 300-metre-deep chasm under red cliffs — Europe's biggest spring. The riverside path up is twenty minutes of impossibly green water.Fontaine-de-VaucluseDriving·25m312:45 – 14:15·1h 30mLunch in GordesThe Luberon's poster village, stacked in grey stone on its ridge. Lunch on a terrace off the château square, then the viewpoint lay-by north of town for the full stacked-village shot.GordesDriving·10m414:30 – 15:30·1hSénanque AbbeyThe 12th-century Cistercian abbey in its lavender-filled combe — the most photographed monastery in France, still home to a working community. Rows bloom late June to early August.Abbaye de SénanqueDriving·20m516:00 – 17:30·1h 30mRoussillon ochre trailA village painted every shade of its own quarries — blood orange to pale gold. Walk the Sentier des Ocres' short loop through the old workings as the light goes warm.RoussillonDriving·25m618:30 – 20:00·1h 30mDinner in BonnieuxAcross the valley to the terraced village facing Lacoste. Rosé from the slope you're sitting on, daube of lamb, and the Luberon going purple below.BonnieuxPlan your own trip on Trippad
109:00 – 10:30·1h 30mL'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue antiques and canalsThe Venice of Provence wakes early: mossy waterwheels, canal-side cafés and three hundred antique dealers. Sunday adds the famous market — plan around it if you can.L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
211:00 – 12:15·1h 15mFontaine-de-Vaucluse spring walkThe Sorgue erupts fully-formed from a 300-metre-deep chasm under red cliffs — Europe's biggest spring. The riverside path up is twenty minutes of impossibly green water.Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
312:45 – 14:15·1h 30mLunch in GordesThe Luberon's poster village, stacked in grey stone on its ridge. Lunch on a terrace off the château square, then the viewpoint lay-by north of town for the full stacked-village shot.Gordes
414:30 – 15:30·1hSénanque AbbeyThe 12th-century Cistercian abbey in its lavender-filled combe — the most photographed monastery in France, still home to a working community. Rows bloom late June to early August.Abbaye de Sénanque
516:00 – 17:30·1h 30mRoussillon ochre trailA village painted every shade of its own quarries — blood orange to pale gold. Walk the Sentier des Ocres' short loop through the old workings as the light goes warm.Roussillon
618:30 – 20:00·1h 30mDinner in BonnieuxAcross the valley to the terraced village facing Lacoste. Rosé from the slope you're sitting on, daube of lamb, and the Luberon going purple below.Bonnieux