Friday Market

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If you do nothing else in Carpentras, make sure you find time to visit the fabulous Friday market, when several hundred stalls fill rue d’Inguimbert, ave Jean Jaurès and many side streets. It's an institution, and as Provençal as it gets – not to be missed.


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