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The Luberon Massif has a maximum altitude of 1 256 m and an area of about 600 km². It is composed of two mountains: the Big Luberon and the Little Luberon, lying in the middle of Provence in the far south of France. In geology, a massif is a section of the Earths crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. ...
Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum, called zero level. ...
Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ...
The total number of inhabitants varies greatly between winter and summer, due to a massive influx of tourists during the warm season.
It is a favourite destination for the French High Society and British and American visitors in search of an authentic way of life which disappeared long ago, if it ever existed.
In the 1970s, people came from all over France to "Le Luberon" in search of a communitarian ideal.
The Force de frappe or French strategic nuclear arsenal used to be nearby, underground, on "Le plateau d'Albion" before being dismantled in the late 1980s. The Force de frappe (French: Deterrence, literally Striking Force) is the designation of what used to be a triad of air, sea and land based French Nuclear Forces, part of the Military of France. ...
If you're not French, the Luberon was made famous in the last decades, by a series of books by Peter Mayle giving the chronicle of a British expatriate who had settled in the countryside, South of the mountains. The books did for the region what Notting Hill did to the West-London location of the film: sinking the place under an imported sense of typical wonders. Peter Mayle (born 1939) is a British-born author most famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. ...
See also Alpilles landscape near Le Destet. ...
References - Mayle, Peter. A year in Provence. New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
- Mayle, Peter. Encore Provence : new adventures in the south of France. New York : Knopf, 1999.
- Mayle, Peter. Toujours Provence. New York : Knopf, 1991
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