From Avignon: Lavender Fields & Sault Tour

Visit the town of Sault, famous for its vast lavender fields that stretch as far as the eye can see! Here you'll have enough time to stroll along the rows of of the flowers and enjoy the aromatic scent of the purple flowers!

Then head for a visit to a charming family Lavender Farm. This floral park is also a botanical conservatory of 5 hectares! This farm is a legacy of 5 generations of landiculturists perfumers, Lavenders are grown in the open fields and presented in garden collections. Old roses and other rare plants acclimated to the region rub shoulders with blue flowers.

Spaces designed to taste farm products, to relax, picnic, or even quench your thirst welcome you in the middle of the summer season.

You can also visit the farm's shop with a large variety of lavender products. The varieties of lavender vary, from fragrant blue to the purple of the bouquet, passing through pink or white! Find delicacies like honey, syrups, jams, plants, teas, sachets of flowers, essential oils soaps, and even decoration and literature on lavender!

On your way back to Avignon, stop by Gordes, a beautiful perched village in the Luberon area, considered one of the most beautiful in France! 

Did you know that the lavender harvest was often carried out by women and children who did the picking in the morning. The men joined them later with a mule hitched to a still to distill on the spot. It was only at the end of the 18th century that Lavender was domesticated to be grown in the open fields. Cultivation has made it more accessible, easier to maintain and harvest. Some farmers first uprooted wild lavender to introduce them to their plots. They then continued to multiply it by seed or by cuttings to plant them in the open fields.