Taillades

Taillades
Taillades
Commune
	The old quarry, which is now an open-air theatre
	Coat of arms
	Location of Taillades
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	Coordinates: 43°50′13″N 5°05′29″E / 43.8369°N 5.0914°E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Apt
Canton	Cheval-Blanc
Intercommunality	CA Luberon Monts de Vaucluse
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Nicole Girard
Area 1	6.86 km2 (2.65 sq mi)
Population (2021)	1,957
• Density	290/km2 (740/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	84131 /84300
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Taillades (French pronunciation: [tajad]; Occitan: Lei Talhadas) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

It is 5 km (3.1 mi) east of Cavaillon, and 40 km (25 mi) 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.^[3]

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.^[4]