• Thumbnail for Mont Ventoux
    Mont Ventoux (French: [mɔ̃ vɑ̃tu]; Provençal: Ventor [venˈtu]) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km (12 miles) northeast...
    24 KB (2,159 words) - 15:51, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ascent of Mont Ventoux
    The Italian poet Petrarch wrote about his ascent of Mont Ventoux (in Provence; elevation 1912 meters) on 26 April 1336 in a well-known letter published...
    10 KB (1,262 words) - 17:12, 14 November 2023
  • Bruno Wolkowitch". Toutelatele. Retrieved 6 March 2016. "Meurtres au mont Ventoux : succès d'audience pour Ingrid Chauvin et Thomas Jouannet". Toutelatele...
    18 KB (1,599 words) - 16:10, 7 April 2024
  • Mont Ventoux Hill Climb is a car and motorcycle hillclimbing race course near Avignon in France. The course, up Mont Ventoux, starts from the village of...
    8 KB (330 words) - 07:07, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Death of Tom Simpson
    13th stage of that race, he collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. Simpson fell ill with diarrhoea during the Tour's tenth stage. He was...
    31 KB (3,170 words) - 19:53, 7 January 2024
  • Ventoux may refer to: Mont Ventoux Renault Ventoux engine Ventoux AOC, a French wine appellation formerly known as Côtes du Ventoux This disambiguation...
    411 bytes (52 words) - 13:38, 29 September 2019
  • The Mont Ventoux Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. Earth sciences portal France portal...
    1 KB (55 words) - 07:19, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tom Simpson
    1967 Tour de France, Simpson collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. He was 29 years old. The post-mortem examination found that he had mixed...
    121 KB (13,240 words) - 17:58, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petrarch
    ambassador, and, because he traveled for pleasure, as with his ascent of Mont Ventoux, has been called "the first tourist". During his travels, he collected...
    57 KB (6,355 words) - 08:15, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ventoux AOC
    the Mont Ventoux to the east of Carpentras and to the north of Cavaillon are less ravaged by the Mistral due to some shelter afforded by the Ventoux-Vaucluse-Luberon...
    4 KB (383 words) - 18:40, 26 September 2022