Carpentras Synagogue

The church of Saint-Siffrein, built between the 15th and 16th centuries, was the cathedral of the diocese of Carpentras until 1790. After the collapse of the nave of the previous Romanesque building, a new cathedral in Gothic style was built from 1404 onwards. The unfinished west façade contains two large 15th-century stained glass windows; the upper part of the façade was covered between 1615 and 1618, and the neo-Gothic bell tower is noteworthy. The nave, supported by buttresses between which side chapels are built, is extended by a narrower and lower choir and a seven-sided apse, a remarkable example of French Southern Gothic.

Notre-Dame de Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1148, and became an abbey in 1150. In 1544, during the Wars of Religion, monks were hanged and the monastery was burnt down by the Waldensians and the convent building destroyed. At the end of the 17th century, there were only two monks left in Senanque. After losing its original vocation, the abbey was bought by the abbot of Lérins, Dom Barnouin, in 1857. It was only in 1926 that convent life resumed uninterruptedly in Sénanque, now the priory of Lérins Abbey. The monastery is known for the production of the liqueur of Sénacole, from 19 plants that flower in the Provencal valley of the abbey of Sénanque.

The Synagogue in Avignon is a Sephardi synagogue built in 1849 by architects Duchesne and Joseph-Auguste Joffroy. This Neo-Classical stone building still serves as a synagogue.