Simiane-La-Rotonde is 75 minutes from Avignon TGV station and 90 minutes from Marseilles Provence airport. Many places of natural beauty, tourist spots and cultural attractions are within an hour’s drive .The county museum of ethnology is in Mane with its many gardens around Le Prieuré de Salagon and its church, a masterpiece of Provençal Romanesque architecture. Gordes, Roussillon, Ménerbes, Montbrun-les-Bains and Brantes are lovely villages. Admire the cedar woods of Bonnieux, the ochre quarries of Le Colorado Provençal at Rustrel, the gorges de Régalon, La Nesque and le Toulourenc, le Château de la Tour d’Aigues, Ansouis and Lourmarin. L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue has 300 antique dealers. Banon and Forcalquier are classified “Site remarquable du goût” for their specialist local food products. Manosque, the town of the writerJean Giono, has the “Centre Jean-Giono”. There are also the valley of Jabron, Notre Dame de Lure…