Fontaine-de-Vaucluse (''Spring of Vaucluse'') is built around a spring in a valley at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains, between Saumane and Lagnes, not far from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. It is named after the spring which is the source of the River Sorgue. As a result of the plentiful water the local inhabitants decided to create several mills to run textile factories. The River Sougue was also used as a trade route by the Phoenicians of Massalia in the 6th and 7th century. Due to the ''mysterious'' nature of the spring, it became the object of major cult groups since Antiquity. More than 1,600 antique coins dating as far back as the first century BC have been recovered from the bottom of the spring. Jacques Cousteau and another diver were almost killed while searching for the bottom of the spring. An air compressor used to fill their tanks had taken in its own exhaust fumes and produced carbon monoxide - nearly killing them before they could return to the surface from a depth of approximately 100 meters. via 500px http://ift.tt/1WSquOx
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