Taillades


Taillades is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
It is east of Cavaillon, and south east of Avignon.
Situated in the Luberon, the village covers 675 hectares of which 320 are mountainside. It has a population of about 1,900 inhabitants.
The village was awarded the 'two flowers' standard in the national competition for floral villages.

History

The village developed as a community of stone workers employed at the quarries nearby. The entrance to the old village is marked by a medieval tower, a vestige of the original castle. The castle was rebuilt in the seventeenth century. In 1859, the village mill, Moulin Saint-Pierre, was built. Today it is used as a function room for the village.