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LE MAS DU LUBERON HOTEL AND RESTAURANT
Vineyard Hotel Romance in Provence

The Provence - Alps Maritime region of southern France spanning the azure coast from the inland country is a rolling hill and low mountainous landscape above of the Mediterranean “Riviera”, flattening out into the valley of the Rhone River. Luberon is the section along the Luberon Massif mountain range and the valley below to the east of Ain-en-Provence, an area of quaint small towns tucked into the sun and wild flower dappled hillside valleys of Provence east of the Rhone popular among world travelers for that famed Provencal sunshine. The Luberon life was recently featured in the Ridley Scott-Russell Crowe film "A Good Year" based on a Peter Mayle book companion to his "A Year in Provence".

The charming small hotel and restaurant of Le Mas et la Flambée du Luberon is located in a tiny old village of Venelles halfway between the Luberon hills and Aix-en-Provence, right in the midst of the wine grape growing “terroirs” of Provence. From the hotel you can wander the wine roads of Provence to vineyards of the Coteaux Aix-en-Provence (see Provence-Avignon Wine Road), Palette, Côtes du Luberon, Cassis and Les Baux de Provence. The hotel offers wine tasting on the premises along with local Provencal cuisine at its fine Savour at La Flambée restaurant. In the cool off-season you can sit by the fire or in the Provence sunny summer, find a place on the shady terrace with a view of the Le Luberon . The restaurant wine list has over 250 vintages from local wineries and other famed regions of France to sample with a seasonal changing menu. The list also offers bottles of rare prestige vintages from Latour, Mouton Rothshild and the Hospice de Beaune (See Beaune Wine and Madonna).

Rooms at the Le Mas et la Flambée du Luberon are uniquely decorated in a Mediterranean theme in the bright colors of Provencal style and each has a private entrance for that secret “rendezvous d’amour” or just quiet comings and goings. All year long the hotel offers theme “Discovery Weekends”. The hotel is 10 minutes from Aix-en-Provence with its famous fountains and weekly produce markets, 45 minutes from the Verdon Gorges with its river rafting, hiking and rock climbing, and the Napoleonic Road to the coast (see Route Napoleon). In Venelles perched on a high promontory of Haut Vennelles you can visit the ruins of the medieval castle with its look-out view pointt from where you can peer over the Luberon valley and the mountain of Saint Victoire, a favorite painting subject of Cezanne.

Nice and Cannes are about two hours by car or rail and Avignon an hour. Prices as of 2008 are 102 € for 2 people in mid-season spring and fall. 114 € July and August. To get there from Aix-en-Provence, take the A51 autoroute to the Venelles exit, go through the village, turn left at the fountain circle and take the small street down into the old village. © Bargain Travel Europe 

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See Also:

FORTRESS MORNAS PROVENCE

CHATEAU MARSANNAY: ROUTE GRAND CRUS

CURIOUS WINE ROAD OF PROVENCE

DIJON - BURGUNDY WINE, MUSTARD N' GARGOYLES

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