Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat Venaissin is the ''

communauté d'agglomération An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

Carpentras Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal dialect, Provençal Occitan language, Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the ...

. It is located in the

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.

department, in the

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (commonly shortened to PACA), also known as Région Sud, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France, located at the far southeastern point of the Metropolitan France, mainland. The main P ...

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, southeastern

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. Created in 2003, its seat is in Carpentras.CA Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE) (N° SIREN : 248400053)
BANATIC. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Its name refers to the

Mont Ventoux Mont Ventoux (; ) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme. At , it is the highest mountain in the region and h ...

and the

Comtat Venaissin The (; ; 'County of Venaissin'), often called the for short, was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791, in what is now the region of Southern France. The region was an enclave within the Kingdom of France, comprising the area aroun ...

. Its area is 511.6 km². Its population was 70,298 in 2019, of which 29,236 in Carpentras proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 25 communes: # Aubignan # Le Barroux # Le Beaucet # Beaumes-de-Venise # Beaumont-du-Ventoux #

Bédoin Bédoin (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Geography Located at the base of Mont Ventoux, it is the starting point of one of the three routes to the summit of the mount ...

# Caromb #

# Crillon-le-Brave # Flassan # Gigondas # Lafare # Loriol-du-Comtat # Malaucène # Mazan # Modène # La Roque-Alric # La Roque-sur-Pernes # Saint-Didier # Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron # Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols #

Sarrians Sarrians (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Population Hominin remains Several hominin bones, showing breakages due to sediment pressure, have been found nearby. See ...

# Suzette # Vacqueyras # Venasque

References

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