Vaucluse department

Vaucluse
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
prefecture	Avignon
Sub-prefecture (s)	Apt Carpentras
Residents	559,479 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	157 inhabitants per km²
surface	3,566.75 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	14th
Cantons	17th
Communities	151
President of the Department Council	Maurice Chabert
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-84
Location of the department of Vaucluse in the region d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Cote

The Département Vaucluse [ voˈklyːz ] is the French department with the serial number 84. It is located in the southeast of the country in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and was named after the source in the place of the same name (today: Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ) .

geography

The Vaucluse department borders on the Gard , Ardèche , Drôme , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Bouches-du-Rhône departments and, at a few hundred meters, the Var department . The most important river is the Rhone , which marks the western border of the department. The Durance forms the southern border of the department, it flows into the Rhône at Avignon .

The highest point is 1,912  m of Mont Ventoux . The Luberon mountains in the south of the department reach an altitude of 1125  m with the summit of Mourre Nègre .

history

Previously papal property, Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin came to France on September 14, 1791. From March 28, 1792, these areas formed the two new districts of Avignon in the Bouches-du-Rhône and Carpentras in the Drôme department. On August 12, 1793, the Vaucluse department was established, which included not only the Avignon and Carpentras districts, but also Provencal areas such as the Apt and Orange districts from the Bouches-du-Rhône department and the Sault canton from the Basses department -Alpes came along. The department's border was last changed in 1800 when the commune of Suze-la-Rousse was transferred to the Drôme department, making the Valréas canton an exclave of the Vaucluse department in the Drôme department.

coat of arms

Description: The emblem, which is quartered in red and blue, shows the binding keys in the first field and three golden keys lying down with the beard in the fourth , in the second a golden lily , the symbol of French royalty, under a red three-legged tournament collar and in the third field one green branch with golden globular fruits under a golden shield head with a blue horn .

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Vaucluse department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Apt	4th	57	129.075	1,390.17	93	841
Avignon	8th	17th	214,542	369.59	580	842
Carpentras	8th	77	215,862	1,806.99	119	843
Vaucluse department	17th	151	559.479	3,566.75	157	84

See also:

• List of communes in the Vaucluse department
• List of cantons in the Vaucluse department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Vaucluse department

Places and sights

Well-known places are:

• Avignon
• Gordes with his bories : Igloo- like dwellings made of stacked field stones that are not connected with mortar or the like, the walls of which are united to form the roof.
• Roussillon with its reddish ocher earth.
• The Sénanque Abbey near Gordes
• orange
• Vaison-la-Romaine with the old Roman settlement and its large Provencal market
• The Mont Ventoux mountain
• The source of the Sorgue River in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
• The Dolmen de la Pichone

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  The plague wall at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

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  Rock face on the Sorgue near Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

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  The Sorgue spring pond in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse when the water level is low

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  View from the west of the Mourre Nègre

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  The Gorges de la Nesque . In the background the Mont Ventoux

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  Mountain village of Gordes

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  Orange Theater

literature

• Laurence Wylie : village in the Vaucluse. Everyday life in a French community. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-26621-1 .
• Ralf Nestmeyer : Provence & Côte d'Azur . Michael-Müller-Verlag, Erlangen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89953-716-1 .

Web links

Commons : Vaucluse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Vaucluse  - travel guide

• General Council of the Département Vaucluse (French)
• Prefecture of the Vaucluse department (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nouveau départemental de Vaucluse et élection du Président. In: vaucluse.fr. Retrieved February 14, 2016 (French). 

Coordinates: 43 ° 57 '  N , 4 ° 50'  E