Editing Mont Ventoux (section)

==History==
[[File:Mont Ventoux from Avignon.jpg|thumb|Mont Ventoux as seen from [[Avignon]], around {{convert|50|km|-1|abbr=in}} away.]]
[[File:120613 Mont-Ventoux-Roussillon.jpg|thumb|Mont Ventoux as seen from the town of [[Roussillon, Vaucluse|Roussillon]].]]

Although the hill was probably climbed in prehistoric times, the first recorded ascent was by [[Jean Buridan]], who, on his way to the papal court in [[Avignon]] before the year 1334, climbed Mont Ventoux "in order to make some meteorological observations".<ref>Ernest A. Moody [http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aversa/scholastic/Dictionary%20of%20Scientific%20Biography/08.%20Buridan%20b.%20ca.%201295%20(Moody).pdf Jean Buridan] in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography</ref><ref>Michael Kimmelman, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F03E2DC153EF935A35755C0A96F958260 "NOT Because it's There"], ''[[New York Times]]'', 6 June 1999.</ref> The [[Italian people|Italian]] poet [[Petrarch]] wrote a possibly fictional account of an ascent accompanied by his brother on 26 April 1336, in his [[Ascent of Mont Ventoux]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cassirer |first=Ernst |date=January 1943 |title=Some Remarks on the Question of the Originality of the Renaissance |jstor=2707236 |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=49–74 |doi=10.2307/2707236}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch-ventoux.asp |title=Petrarch: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux |last1=Halsall |first1=Paul |date=August 1998 |website=fordham.edu |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=5 March 2014}}</ref>

In the 15th century, a chapel was constructed on the top and dedicated to the [[Christian cross|Holy Cross]].{{fact|date=July 2021}}

In 1882, a meteorological station was constructed on the summit, but it is no longer in use. This observatory had been planned in 1879, along with a carriage road for access.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Notes | date=6 November 1879 | pages=18–19 | journal=Nature | volume=21 | issue=519 | doi = 10.1126/science.ns-21.519.18 | pmid=17744197 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocsKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19 | access-date=19 April 2011 }}</ref>

In the 1960s, a {{convert|50|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} telecommunications mast was built.{{fact|date=July 2021}}

From 1902 to 1976, the [[Mont Ventoux Hill Climb]] for car and motorcycle took place on the roads of the Mont.{{fact|date=July 2021}}