Pernes-les-Fontaines is really a very pretty village. We were there during a fair and a flea market. This fair has largely hidden the Church of the Augustins, which displays, above the frontispiece, "French Republic".

In this village with 41 fountains, the oldest of which dates from the 15th century, none were filled with water, which takes away a bit of its charm. The interior of the Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth Church is simple but very pretty.

So if you pass near Parnes-Les-Fontaînes, make a stop, you will be amazed by these little streets..

Under the suzerainty of the Counts of Toulouse, Pernes became the capital of the Comtat Venaissin from 1125 to 1320. Indeed, when they again became masters of the Comtat, they asserted their authority there by installing representatives in the city of Pernes which thus became Capital of the Comtat Venaissin.

After the Wars of Religion, Pernes was hit by several epidemics during the 16th and 17th centuries. Some archives mention, for example, 2,500 victims in the single year of 1580. In 1720, the plague began to rise from Marseilles throughout Provence. The city takes all possible precautions by participating, like all the municipalities in the region, in the construction of the "plague wall". It is a dry stone wall which unfortunately will not prevent the plague from spreading. The epidemic ended in 1723 and, in gratitude to Saint-Roch, the people of Pernois restored the chapel of the patron saint of plague victims. Even today, the tradition of worshiping the saint continues every year on the Sunday following August 15.