Ménerbes

For five years, from 1573 to 1578, Protestants held the citadel of Ménerbes against a papal army, on a rocky spur of the Luberon between Oppède and Lacoste. The walled hilltop village later drew artists such as Dora Maar, and Peter Mayle's books made it famous in the English-speaking world. Below it, farms grow truffles, lavender and wine grapes, celebrated in the village's truffle and wine house.

Highlights

• Maison de la Truffe et du Vin du Luberon, in a historic town house
• The 14th-century church of Saint-Luc and the belfry with its campanile
• Abbaye de Saint-Hilaire, with its garden of medicinal herbs (FR)
• The prehistoric Pitchoune dolmen, one of the few in Vaucluse
• A corkscrew museum at the foot of the village

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Ménerbes (FR), Ménerbes (EN), Ménerbes (IT)), Wikivoyage (Ménerbes). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.