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23-567: Cadenet is a village located on the southern slopes of the Luberon Massif , overlooking the valley of the Durance . It is 57 km southeast of Avignon , 59 km north of Marseille and 616 km as the crow flies from Paris . It is accessed from Lourmarin to the north by county ( départemental ) main road 943. Secondary county road 973 crosses the south of the village on an east–west axis and allows it to connect to Lauris to

46-843: A variety of rock types . Most geologically young mountain ranges on the Earth's land surface are associated with either the Pacific Ring of Fire or the Alpide belt . The Pacific Ring of Fire includes the Andes of South America, extends through the North American Cordillera , the Aleutian Range , on through Kamchatka Peninsula , Japan , Taiwan , the Philippines , Papua New Guinea , to New Zealand . The Andes

69-722: Is 7,000 kilometres (4,350 mi) long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system. The Alpide belt stretches 15,000 km across southern Eurasia , from Java in Maritime Southeast Asia to the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe , including the ranges of the Himalayas , Karakoram , Hindu Kush , Alborz , Caucasus , and the Alps . The Himalayas contain the highest mountains in

92-533: Is a favourite destination for French high society and British and American visitors because of the pleasant and picturesque towns and villages, comfortable way of life, agricultural wealth, historical and cultural associations, as well as hiking trails. Samuel Beckett notably lived in Cave Bonelly, a vineyard near to Roussillon , during World War II . In the last two decades the Luberon has become known in

115-476: Is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny . Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics . Mountain ranges are also found on many planetary mass objects in

138-538: Is at work while the mountains are being uplifted until the mountains are reduced to low hills and plains. The early Cenozoic uplift of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado provides an example. As the uplift was occurring some 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of mostly Mesozoic sedimentary strata were removed by erosion over the core of the mountain range and spread as sand and clays across the Great Plains to

161-531: Is drier, having been stripped of much of its moisture. Often, a rain shadow will affect the leeward side of a range. As a consequence, large mountain ranges, such as the Andes, compartmentalize continents into distinct climate regions . Mountain ranges are constantly subjected to erosional forces which work to tear them down. The basins adjacent to an eroding mountain range are then filled with sediments that are buried and turned into sedimentary rock . Erosion

184-631: Is twinned with: Natives include the Orientalist composer Félicien-César David , the carpenter and Jacobin Joseph Sec , and Saint Elzéar of Sabran , Baron of Ansouis and Count of Ariano. Luberon The Luberon ( French pronunciation: [lyb(ə)ʁɔ̃] or [lybeʁɔ̃] ; Provençal : Leberon ( classical norm ) or Leberoun ( Mistralian norm ) ) is a massif in central Provence in Southern France , part of

207-489: The French Prealps . It has a maximum elevation of 1,256 metres (4,121 ft) and an area of about 600 square kilometres (230 sq mi). It is composed of three mountain ranges (from west to east): Lesser Luberon ( Petit Luberon ), Greater Luberon ( Grand Luberon ) and Eastern Luberon ( Luberon oriental ). The valleys north and south of them contain a number of towns and villages as well as agricultural land;

230-473: The Ocean Ridge forms the longest continuous mountain system on Earth, with a length of 65,000 kilometres (40,400 mi). The position of mountain ranges influences climate, such as rain or snow. When air masses move up and over mountains, the air cools, producing orographic precipitation (rain or snow). As the air descends on the leeward side, it warms again (following the adiabatic lapse rate ) and

253-519: The Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets . Mountain ranges are usually segmented by highlands or mountain passes and valleys . Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geologic structure or petrology . They may be a mix of different orogenic expressions and terranes , for example thrust sheets , uplifted blocks , fold mountains, and volcanic landforms resulting in

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276-455: The 1,500 different species of plants, there are 700 species and sub-species of higher plants and 200 species of lichens. Rich fossil deposits are also preserved here, documenting for example ancient species related to songbirds , as well as an ancestral pelican . The Force de frappe or French strategic nuclear arsenal used to be located on the Plateau d'Albion before being dismantled in

299-764: The Early Cretaceous period. Several other hills lie to the east, including Castellar . The alluvial plains of the Durance lie to the south. The town lies on the perimeter of the Luberon Geological Nature Reserve because of the proximity to exceptional fossil sites. Like all places situated along the river Durance , Cadenet had a Jewish community in the Middle Ages . A document of the year 1283 states that this community, together with those of Aix-en-Provence , Saint-Maximin , Lambesc , Pertuis , Istres , Trets , and Lanson ,

322-560: The English-speaking world especially through a series of books by British author Peter Mayle chronicling his life as an expatriate settled in the Luberon village of Ménerbes . These are titled A Year in Provence , Toujours Provence and Encore Provence . Another of Mayle's books, a novel set in the Luberon, was made into a film called A Good Year (2006) directed by Ridley Scott , starring Russell Crowe and filmed in

345-485: The east. This mass of rock was removed as the range was actively undergoing uplift. The removal of such a mass from the core of the range most likely caused further uplift as the region adjusted isostatically in response to the removed weight. Rivers are traditionally believed to be the principal cause of mountain range erosion, by cutting into bedrock and transporting sediment. Computer simulation has shown that as mountain belts change from tectonically active to inactive,

368-556: The late 1980s. Now, the underground site where the missile controls were located is a public multidisciplinary laboratory of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis , the Low Noise Underground Laboratory (LSBB) of Rustrel , Pays d'Apt. 43°47′46″N 5°13′26″E  /  43.79611°N 5.22389°E  / 43.79611; 5.22389 Mountain range A mountain range or hill range

391-469: The northern part is marked by the Calavon , while the southern part is characterised by the Durance . The Luberon is often advertised under the name Lubéron (with an acute accent on top of the "e"); some dictionaries justify that the two spellings are interchangeable. The total number of inhabitants varies greatly between winter and summer, due to a massive influx of tourists during the warm season. It

414-627: The rate of erosion drops because there are fewer abrasive particles in the water and fewer landslides. Mountains on other planets and natural satellites of the Solar System, including the Moon , are often isolated and formed mainly by processes such as impacts, though there are examples of mountain ranges (or "Montes") somewhat similar to those on Earth. Saturn 's moon Titan and Pluto , in particular, exhibit large mountain ranges in chains composed mainly of ices rather than rock. Examples include

437-492: The region. Luberon is particularly rich in biological diversity. There are known to be around 1,500 species of plants, accounting for 30% of the flora and fauna in France, 17,000 species and sub-species of insects with almost 2,300 species of Lepidoptera, or nearly 40% of species living in France, 341 species and subspecies of vertebrate wildlife, 135 species of birds and 21 species of bats or 70% of species present in France. Among

460-537: The west, and runs east to Villelaure and Pertuis . County roads 43, 59, 118 and 139 also pass through the town. A railway runs through the town on an east–west axis across the plains at the south end of the village. This is the line of the Cheval-Blanc in Pertuis . The village is situated on a hill overlooking the valley of the Durance , on the southern Luberon Massif , in mountainous terrain formed during

483-543: The world, including Mount Everest , which is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) high. Mountain ranges outside these two systems include the Arctic Cordillera , Appalachians , Great Dividing Range , East Siberians , Altais , Scandinavians , Qinling , Western Ghats , Vindhyas , Byrrangas , and the Annamite Range . If the definition of a mountain range is stretched to include underwater mountains, then

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506-590: Was permitted to have a synagogue and a cemetery on paying an annual tax of two pounds of pepper to the archbishop of Aix . In 1385 a remarkable lawsuit arose in Arles , relating to an alleged marriage. The plaintiff was Maestro Duran of Cadenet. In order to be revenged on Meirona, daughter of En Salves Cassin of Arles, who had refused him, Duran declared that he had married her in the presence of two witnesses, Vidal Abraham of Bourrin and Bonfilh or Bonfils Crégud. These witnesses were later convicted of perjury . The case

529-703: Was taken in turn before the rabbinical colleges of Arles, Nîmes , Montpellier , and Perpignan , and in the last instance, upon the demand of Don Salemias Nasi of Valence , was submitted to R. Isaac ben Sheshet , who pronounced severe judgment against Duran and his fellow-conspirators, and bitterly reproached the community of Arles that it had not done its utmost to prevent such a scandal from becoming public. A Jew, Mosson of Cadenet by name, lived at Carpentras in 1404; and two others, Salvet of Cadenet and Vidalon of Cadenet, were sheriffs of that community in 1460. Its inhabitants are called Cadenétiens in French. Cadenet

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