L’Escale is a French commune, located in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. In history, the town was the scene of events during the wars of religion, then during the resistance of this part of Provence to Napoleon III. It experienced a rural exodus, before exceeding 1,000…

Malijai is a French commune, located in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Farmers in the town are engaged in mixed farming or raising sheep. The cultivation of the olive tree has been practiced in the town for centuries, while being limited to certain slopes. An aggregates…

Digne-les-Bains is a French commune, capital of the department of Alpes de-Haute-Provence, located in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The presence of three rivers (the Bléone, the Mardaric, and the Eaux-Chaudes, made it an ideal place for human settlement, and appreciated for its thermal waters. Located on the edge of the…

Castellane is a French commune, sub-prefecture of the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. With around 1,600 inhabitants, Castellane has the distinction of being the least populated sub-prefecture in France. The commune contains 7,000 acres of wood and forests. The Massif du Montdenier extends over the western part…

Peyroules is a French commune, located in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Located at the gates of the Gorges du Verdon, at the crossroads of the thematic routes of Napoleon and Lavender. La Bâtie is located mainly on a promontory. The town is established around the…

Escragnolles is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Located in the hinterland of Grasse. Its twelve hamlets cover an area of 25.4 km² with an average altitude of 1000 meters. History The territory of Escragnolles has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Witness…

Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. It is located some 12 kilometres northwest of the famed perfume centre of Grasse on the D6085 highway. Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey and its surrounding area are rich in stone megaliths (particularly great table-shaped stone dolmens) and…

Mouans-Sartoux is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region . The commune of Sartoux was combined with the commune of Mouans, to take the combined name of Mouans-Sartoux by order of Napoleon III on 28 March 1858. A town with a rural tradition,…

Mougins is a French commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.The town, historically peasant specializing in jasmine picking, is today massively urbanized by an abundance of neo-Provençal-style villas due to the urban sprawl, which earned it its nickname of garden city. Tourism is mainly developed in art:…

Grasse is a French town of Provence, located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Since the 17th century, the city is considered the world capital of perfume. It obtained three flowers in the Contest of cities and villages in bloom and was promoted “City of Art…

Châteauneuf-Grasse is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. The village itself is located at the top of a hill, but the territory of the commune includes other hills as well as the flatter terrain of Pré-du-Lac, where homes and businesses developed in…

Le Rouret is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Le Rouret is an example of a typical Provençal village undergoing modern development: evidence of its agricultural present and past remains clear despite increased tourism, cultural activities and housing developments. Le Rouret is…

Roquefort-les-Pins is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, standing at 18 km from Cannes, 17 km from the Nice airport and 13 km from Grasse. The village is situated between 200 and 300 metres above sea level. Roquefort-Les-Pins is surrounded by a…

Montpellier is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Hérault. Capital of the former administrative region Languedoc-Roussillon, it is the center of a metropolisand a center of balance for the Occitanie region, where plenary meetings take place. Montpellier is located in the South of France, on a major axis…