Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Festival de Lacoste
(
www.festivaldelacoste.com
)
. In the village,
Espace La Costa
( 04
90 75 93 12)
sells festival tickets (€15 to €150). Starting in 2012, Mr Cardin began allow-
ing visitors inside the château, but only by advance reservation - you can even stay the
night. Much of the rest of the village belongs to the US-based Savannah College of Art &
Design.
Café de France
( 04 90 75 82 25; chambrescafedefrance@hotmail.fr; village
centre, opposite town hall; r without/with bath €38/53; mains €9-14; Apr-Oct)
is a
good-value, old- fashioned, nothing-fancy, five-room hotel. Two rooms have fabulous
views; four have en-suite bathrooms. Downstairs there's a casual bistro with panoramic
vistas. Cash only.
Ménerbes
Scaling steep streets to Ménerbes rewards you with uninterrupted views over Tuscan-like
plains. The village's maze of cobbled alleyways lead to a
12th-century church
, and a de-
licious locale to taste wine.
Ménerbes was made famous by British expat author Peter Mayle, whose books
A Year
in Provence
and
Toujours Provence
recount his tales of renovating a farmhouse outside
the village in the late 1980s - Monsieur Mayle now lives in Lourmarin.
Sights & Activities
WINERY
Maison de la Truffe et du Vin
(House of Truffle & Wine; 04 90 72 38 37;
www.vin-truffe-luberon.com
;
place de
l'Horloge; 10am-12.30pm & 2.30-6pm daily Apr-Oct, Thu-Sat Nov-Mar)
The dramat-
ic Maison de la Truffe et du Vins occupies a 17th-century hospice on the cobbled square.
Home to the Brotherhood of Truffles and Wine of the Luberon, it represents 60 domaines,
and sells wine at rock-bottom prices. From April to October there's free wine-tasting
daily, and a gastronomic restaurant of mixed repute. Winter brings truffle workshops.
Musée du Tire-Bouchon
( 04 90 72 41 58;
http://domaine-citadelle.com
; adult/child €5/free; 9am-noon &
2-7pm Apr-Oct, 10am-noon & 2-5pm Mon-Sat Nov-Mar)
A shrine to corkscrews, this
CORKSCREW MUSEUM
