Walking in Provence

Visits are timed to match the itinerary’s gentle pace, mixing vineyard tastings and a distillery tour with walks up to four and a half hours through pine forests and over limestone crags. You spend nights based in the village of Seguret, the stone-clad Gordes with its ’bories’ stone huts, and the historic Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and Avignon. The latter includes a guided tour of the Palais des Papes, the largest Gothic palace in the world.

There’s an honest variety of terrain, from vineyard paths to hillside trails, with a careful eye on elevation. The final afternoon stroll loops around the rocky Val d’Enfer, its weird limestone sculptures bearing a resemblance to descriptions in Dante’s Divine Comedy, offering a quiet point at the tour’s end.

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These are the places the trip visits, in order. Explore Worldwide publishes the day-by-day itinerary on its own site.