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These comments were contributed by Candace Andrews, : Along the same street we found another amusing trompe l'oeil: one of the persons is actually real. Up the nearby Rue Raspail is a magnificent cheese shop with some great varieties of goat cheese (fromage de chèvre).
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Guis are some buildings in soft Provençal colors, and several of the windows aren't windows, but nicely painted trompe l'oeils. If you walk up some of the streets going off the Cours Gambetta, such as the Rue Pomme d'Or, you can see the 12th-century Canal St Julien still carrying water through the center of the town.Īt the Place J. There are some pedestrian streets in the old part of town (Vieux Cavaillon), along side the Cours Bournissac.
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This cloister is small, but intact on all four sides. Inside, find your way through ancient dark doors though the side of the cathedral to discover a lovely little cloister. The sets of pipes on the two sides could be played independently from the same keyboard she was at, or both could be played together. Between pieces, the organist explained to us a bit about the double organ. The dreary looking front entrance is at Place Joseph d'Arbaud, but the cathedral has an impressive interior and a magnificent double organ, that was being played while we were there on our most recent visit (2019). It began as a pair of adjacent churches and was modified and integrated into a cathedral over the next century. Today the Cavaillon monday market extends along the Place du Close and the Cours Bournissac.In addition to the Monday market, there's a Thursday-evening market at Place du Clos from April to mid-October (17h-19h).īrocant markets are often held on the Place Philippe de Cabassole in Vieux Cavaillon.Ĭavaillon's St-Véran Cathedral was built in the 11th century. On the weekend preceding 14-July Bastille Day, Cavaillon hosts a melon festival, with a host of events, including a float parade.The Cavaillon melon became famous in the 19th century, and the town market for the melon and other fruits and vegetables grew to an enormous size, and reputation. The season for the famous Cavaillon melons is from mid-June until September, and the town is busy with melon markets during this time. The plains of Cavaillon are well know for the orchards of cherries, apples and pears, and most famously for the Cavaillon melons. Monday market day is a good time to visit, as this is a serious market town, and you'll find a lot of activity then. The town of Cavaillon isn't really a tourist site, and so seems rather calm during most of the week. St Jacques chapel itself is only open for visiting during July-August, all week except tuesdays, from 15h00-16h30 (3 PM to 4.30 PM). Jacques, enjoy the views in different directions and check out the via viata adventure site. You can wander along the top ridge, see the 11th-century Hermitage-Chapelle St. The steps to the top begin just beside the tourist office.The view from the top does make the trip up worth it. There are a lot of steps, though, carved out of the solid rock hillside in the 16th century. It took us only 20 minutes, with many stops along the way to enjoy the view. In the Roman period, the town was called Cabellio or Pagus Cavellius, and the Roman Domitienne Way ( Voie Domitienne) came through here, actually passing through the pair of arches, arc de triomphe.Ī hike up to the at the top isn't very far. It is easy to find, though, located in a large building at the base of the St-Jacques cliffs, and with the Arc d'Triomphe just in frontĬavaillon is named after the Cavares, a Gaulois people who lived on the St-Jacques hill in pre-Roman times. Cavaillon's tourist office isn't very helpful (2019) it's no longer a communal function and has been outsourced to a private company that seems to value self-efficiency. There is a walking tour through Vieux Cavaillon, although no map or guide is available just follow the signs "Circuit du Vieux Cavaillon" around the town. There are only a few purely tourist sites in Cavaillon, including the Roman Arc d'Triomphe, the St-Véran Cathedral, the 14th-century Porte d'Avignon, and the picturesque St-Jacques chapel on the hilltop overlooking the town.The old center of Cavaillon is compact enough that you could visit all these sites in a half-day.