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What is
Provence? Officially, there is no French department
or administrative region with that name. Yet when you hear
the word, you think of oleanders, olives, and lavender.
You think of a slower of pace of life, a Sunday lunch under
the shade of plane trees, a café crème at
a sidewalk café, or a long walk through a forest
of pine trees. You may even think of a village clinging
to the side of a mountain, a church tower with a wrought-iron
campanile where the mistral finds little obstruction, or
a narrow cobble-stoned street. And, finally, when you're
marveling at the rocky inlets of the Mediterranean sea,
or relaxing on the beach of Cassis, you can also say: "I'm
in Provence!"
From its herb-scented hills
to its yacht-filled harbours, no other region of France
fires the imagination as strongly as Provence.
The vivid landscape and luminous light have inspired artists
and writers from Van Gogh to Picasso and from F. Scott Fitzgerald
to Pagnol.
See here a map of Provence with most of the sites described in this website
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