Roussillon Abstract

** When I took this photograph I remember I was was seeing an abstract rather than a landscape . It was the shapes textures and colours that really draw my eye.

 

The village of Roussillon is in the Vaucluse department it stands on an ochre ridge, situated in a broad valley with the "Monts du Vaucluse" to the north and the "Petit" Luberon to the south. Roussillon is famous for the rich deposits of ochre pigments found in the clay near the village. The large quarries of Roussillon were mined from the end of the 18th century until 1930. Thousands of people found work in the quarries and factories. Nowadays the mining of ochre is prohibited here, in order to protect the sites from degradation or even complete destruction. However one of the former ochre quarries can be visited via the "Sentier des Ocres" through the old workings. The colours particularly on a bright day are a joy

 

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