Oppède, Medieval commune in Vaucluse, France.
Oppède extends over 24.1 square kilometers of terrain at an elevation of 103 meters in the Luberon Regional Nature Park of Provence.
The village contains a small paleochristian chapel of Roman origin, the Chapelle Sainte-Cécile, positioned at the northwestern edge of the settlement's plateau.
The 16th-century aire de battage, a stone-paved platform, represents agricultural traditions where villagers gathered to thresh and dry their wheat crops.
The town hall of Oppède maintains regular hours from Tuesday through Friday, providing administrative services including civil status documents and building permits.
The population density reaches 53.7 inhabitants per square kilometer, marking a 5.6 percent increase compared to the 1999 census data.
Location: Canton of Bonnieux
Location: Vaucluse
Location: arrondissement of Apt
Elevation above the sea: 103 m
Industry: administration publique générale
Shares border with: Cabrières-d'Avignon, Cheval-Blanc, Gordes, Maubec, Ménerbes
Address: 84580 Oppède, France 84580 Oppède 84580 Oppède
Phone: +33490769006
Email: mairie-oppede@wanadoo.fr
Website: https://oppede.fr
GPS coordinates: 43.84444,5.16889
Latest update: May 24, 2025 03:01
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region depicts a land where architecture narrates a thousand years of history between sea and mountains. From the 12th-century Cistercian abbeys to the brutalist experiments of Le Corbusier, this area features an exceptional built heritage shaped by Mediterranean light. You can find fortresses perched on rocky promontories, Romanesque monasteries where Van Gogh depicted his struggles, and contemporary museums that interact with the blue of the Mediterranean. Vineyards contain large-scale sculptures, the perched villages of Luberon display their medieval architecture in light stone, and Belle Époque villas in Cap d'Antibes mark the golden age of the Riviera. Between the limestone cliffs of the Calanques and the alpine valleys carved with prehistoric signs, Provençal architecture follows the contours of the land, capturing shadow and warmth, blending tradition and modernity. From the port of Marseille to the hanging gardens of Èze, each building bears the mark of a region where Cistercian builders, military engineers, visionary artists, and contemporary architects have inscribed their visions in stone, concrete, and landscape.
Between gentle mountains and stone villages, Luberon encompasses everything that Provence has to offer in its brightest form. Its roads wind through lavender fields, ochre cliffs, and blonde bastides clinging to hills. Here, each village tells a story from a different time, each alleyway preserves the shadow of a medieval past, and each landscape appears painted by hand. In Gordes or Roussillon, the houses play with the light; in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, the Sorgue springs from an emerald-green abyss; and in the valleys, abbeys and castles watch over the plains.
Lavender Museum
3.4 km
Notre-Dame-d'Alydon
2 km
Musée de la Lavande
3.4 km
Dolmen de l'Ubac
5.2 km
Farmers market in Coustellet
3.3 km
Dolmen de la Pitchoune
5.2 km
Domaine de la Citadelle
2.3 km
Église Saint-Trophime des Taillades
6.1 km
Chapelle Saint Véran de Goult
6 km
Chapelle Sainte-Luce de Taillades
6.1 km
Église du Sacré-Cœur d'Oppède-lès-Poulivets
60 m
Église de Ménerbes
2.9 km
Église Saint-Maurice de Maubec
2.7 km
La Royère
1.4 km
Église de l'Annonciation de Beaumettes
3 km
Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Robion
4.5 km
Église Saint-François-d'Assise des Imberts
4.7 km
Chapelle Saint-Gens de Taillades
5.7 km
Chapelle Saint-Blaise dite des Pénitents de Ménerbes
3.2 km
Chapelle aux Taillades
6.1 km
Notre-Dame de Lumières
5.3 km
Musée du moulin des bouillons
4.6 km
Chapelle Saint Peyre de Robion
5 km
Château d'Oppède
2.1 km
Maison Gabrielli
2 km
Hotel Astier de Faucon
3 km
Chapelle des pénitents blancs d'Oppède
2 km
Croix romane d'Oppède
2 kmReviews
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