Although in the Côtes du Rhône region, Violès itself is a tiny village fairly unremarkable for anything except its wine. We based ourselves here for a week, using the house just outside the village in the countryside as a useful midpoint for moving around the area. On our day of arrival, we’d just returned from …
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Gigondas
Gigondas is a village founded by the Romans in the Côtes du Rhône Villages region, originally named Jocunditas. It seemed thus only right that we make our way there by stopping at some Roman ruins nearby. An afternoon in Vaison la Romaine Our original plan was to go to a market in Violès, however, due …
An Aixpat-en-Provence 