The Luberon.

The Luberon is a string of stone hilltop villages in the southern Vaucluse — Lourmarin, Bonnieux, Cucuron, Ansouis — set between cherry orchards, lavender plateaus, and the Calavon river. Days here move at the speed of an ochre wall warming in the sun: a long market morning, lunch in a courtyard, the long siesta, an aperitif at six. It is the region the French go to when Paris stops making sense, and one of the most distinctly slow-coded landscapes in Europe.