Patrimoine : Cavaillon, tout le charme du Luberon

It's true that we are in a region full of gods. With the Alps on one side, the Luberon on the other, the Ventoux. At the gates of the Luberon, next to the hills, there is a city of character. For me, Cavaillon is the most beautiful city of Vaucluse, maybe even of France. And it's true that we only have two seasons in Cavaillon. Summer and summer. Neither more nor less. It's good all the time here. With its 300 sunny days a year, Cavaillon offers a sweetness of life and an exceptional terroir. This is a melon from Cavaillon, 100 months old. It is magnificent. What a beautiful smell. Good smell of earth, of sun. Known all over the world thanks to its melon, in Cavaillon, we also enjoy some beautiful pages of history. It is a city rich in its heritage, in its culture. You can't imagine all this flow of beauty that is still to be discovered, hidden, secret, in Provence. Between heritage and fear of nature and gluttony, Météo à la carte offers you today an unexpected and charming parenthesis. Cavaillon is a magical country. To discover the beauty of this small Provençal paradise, our escape begins next to Sonia. It's the city where I grew up, Cavaillon, it's my city. This city deserves the work we do there, we love it a lot. And this beautiful sky that you don't always have everywhere, when it's appropriate and that we keep, it contributes to our happiness. At 56 spring, this Cavaillonnaise knows her city by heart, up to the most unusual places. And hello! Hello, hello! How are you? How are you, my beautiful? How are you? Hello! Come see the new treasures! Wow! Super, super, hey! You've worked a lot, huh? Oh, come on! Christian and Olivier, father and son, live in the Agar hotel, built on the ruins of Greek and Roman cities. This incredible residence is the precious witness of the history of Cavaillon. You can go forward. Yes. The hole is not big, but we can go. Yes. So this is where you found this famous treasure. It was here. The one that is nicknamed the treasure of Cavaillon is made up of 303 remarkable deniers of silver. Discovered by Christian in 2010, it is still the most important discovery in the Vaucluse. It's the story of a fortuitous discovery. By cutting down a tree that bothered us, a bad acacia, we discovered Roman paintings. For me, that was the treasure. And in the middle, there was a small tree that turned out to be, little by little, a treasure. It took a month of work to clear piece after piece. We imagine that this discovery can go much further, because it's the whole neighborhood. Or even the whole city. So we're going to leave our garden and go inside the house. In this special hotel, from the garden to the floors of the house, eras follow each other. It is not uncommon to see a prehistoric statue from 12,000 years before Jesus Christ, Provençal, next to an object by Stark, an object by Jeff Koons. You really have everyone starting to dialogue. Oh, beautiful! We are really in a cabinet of curiosity that we have little opportunity to see. It's beyond what you can imagine. Owned by the Moran family for two decades, Olivier grew up in this out-of-time home. When we arrived in this house, it was absolutely empty. It should have even been destroyed. So not only did we save it, we only discovered many architectural treasures. But in addition, we filled it with objects, sometimes fundamental for Provence. We have been living in this house for 27 years. We continue to live in it and we will continue to live in it. That's the whole difference with museums. You are in a place that lives, a place that moves, a place that is organic. Today, it is together that father and son continue to make this jewel of the Cavallone heritage live and revive. He gave me everything, I owe him everything, for this love, this curiosity, this scientific method of the way of looking at things. Transmission is absolutely crucial for us. To be interested in history was part of our civilization, of our essence, of our life. Without history, without past, we do not exist. And there are many vestiges of the time in Cavallone. Hello, my friend. So, inspection of the finished works. So, finished, not at all. The site is halfway through. Okay. This bridge has a particularity which lies in the fact that it was designed by the illustrious Leonardo da Vinci. There are works because, indeed, this work, which dates from 1540, has undergone the hardships of time and has known many cruces, including that of 94. Hervé is the director of the Canal Saint-Julien, the first dug in Provence which continues today to be of capital importance for the city. It is intended for a mission to collect, transport and distribute water for the irrigation of the land. So, in summer, we use the canal for watering, but in other winter periods, in general, the canal also has another function, which is that it collects and evacuates rainwater. This is what made Cavallone so rich. This canal is inseparable from the territory and the population is very, very attached to it. If the people of Cavallone are attached to these treasures, Sonia, who works every day for the city where she grew up, has been able to revitalize the city center, little by little falling into oblivion. There was a love of Cavallone a few years ago. We are never happy with what we have. We are never aware of what we have. We do not open our eyes to what we have. And when we open our eyes and look at it well, we are not bad. It's not bad. And then after, it's action, reaction. That is to say, we love our city. We want to occupy it. And suddenly, we occupy it. We have a nice playground. You just have to play with it. I recognize someone. Hi, Jean-Jacques. Oh, beautiful Sonia. How are you, Jean-Jacques? My God, your dream smile. Smile of Cavallone. To support her in this desire to make Cavallone all its splendor, Sonia was able to count on the indispensable support of the Cavallonais. Have you seen the lavender? It's beautiful. That's good. Does it smell like Provence, Jean-Jacques? It smells like Provence. I breathe better, actually. I feel good. Like Jean-Jacques, he has the head for more than 45 years of the only star restaurant in the city. I am very attached to this city, to Cavallone. We saw the shops close and close one after the other. So it hurt us. Obviously, it was sad. I went there often, but well, I kept only good memories. But it's not enough. It has to come back to life. It has to become joyful and colorful again. You have to give good habits to people, to come back. You have to trust them. They will come back. Isn't that right, Sonia? Yes, my friend. Of course. We work on it. Thanks to Sonia's dedication, led hand in hand with the municipality, the city of Cavallone will continue for a long time to make Provence famous.