In 7 km of pertuis on D913.
Nearby village :To 6,5 km of Cadenet and 5,5 km of Ansouis.
Population : 2971 hab.
Height : 173 m
Village with rural vocation, put on the plain of Durance, Villelaure is surrounded with vast cultivated plains and with haughtiness landscapes. At feet of a woody hill, the narrow city center goes along D 913, the tourist main line Cavaillon - Pertuis, and its important traffic, tarnishing some little its image to the visitors crossing it. Nevertheless, here is a village which deserves that we stop there. Indeed, Villelaure, conceals hidden treasures and immediately to leave the main street, he is engaged has you for a peaceful village, and to the warm inhabitants.

The origins of Villelaure go back up has the Roman period: " the Villa Laura " becomes so in the third century past JC the center of an important domain.
It was a village persecuted during the religious wars, as well as a nearby village of Treizemine which did not get up to him, to be reborn in 1582 thanks to a restored peace.
Hurdy-gurdies houses of the old village Deserve the bend. By going back up upward the village you will fall on an attractive fountain partially revival.
Saint Marc's parochial Church (1620, restaurée en 1909) Integrated into houses, with its square bell tower (XIXth century) and a cross of mission put on a belvedere.
The castle Greenfinch ( XVIIIth century) which is in fact an impressive ancient country-house.
Of the castle you will reach an enclosed and afforested park (public) and its cedar ( 150 years) sheltering numerous festivities and where it well makes settle itself. Of the Park, the view embraces the plain of Durance and the mountains of Trevaresses on the other side of Durance.
The Plain below the village extending to Durance, marked out by small public highways which allow to connect the neighbouring municipalities, is a place or it well makes stroll itself in bike, on foot or make its jogging, through agricultural landscapes and hamlets. You will appreciate the magnificent view on the Mountain Ste Victoire as well as on the village of Villelaure.
The Factory Original architectural ensemble (being a part of the industrial heritage of Vaucluse) results from a ancient sugar factory built in the 1830s on the initiative of the Marquis de Forbin and worked only around ten years. This intended quadrangle has quoted future manufacturer was reorganized and lived.
The small Chapel Saint Marc, (XVIIth century) with its neogothic facade, and its bell tower-arch.
Finally east of the village in the middle of vineyards, you can admire the beautiful vestiges of the castle said " about Queen Laure " built by Melchior de Forbin has the end of XVI ème century, with its gate of honor, its towers in angle, its decorated stones and its mullioned windows. More modest replica of the castle the Renaissance of the Tower of Aigues, it was never ended. Partially destroyed, transformed into farm, this building is a holiday home today (does not visit).