A 4 km west of Saint-Afrique on the left bank of the Dourdou, near the confluence of the valley of the Sorgue and Dourdou.
Small city with a prestigious past, the historian Gregory of Tours in the 6th century speaks of it as a small town.
In 862, during the reign of Charles the Bald a large monastery of Benedictine nuns was founded there.
From 1317 to 1790 Vabres was also the seat of a bishop, the bishops of Vabres dwell in the house which still exists next to the church. They also lived in their castle of St. Izaire.
In the 19th and early 20th century, thanks to the fertile alluvial Dourdou, this village has become the village of market gardeners who fed vegetable Saint-Afrique and the whole region.
