Les Baux de Provence, France
Legend has it that when Dante was looking for imagery to describe Purgatory in his “Divine Comedy,” he based himself in the landscape of Les Baux de Provence. Like Dante’s Purgatory (an island with seven terraces in the Atlantic), this medieval town, high on a mountain with its twisted, grotesquely shaped rocks, “rises” from the vastness of the plain below. However, unlike Purgatory, it is a sunny, enchanting Medieval fortified village that is now one of the most popular tourist…