Cicerone Walking in Provence: Alpes Maritimes Var Vaucluse and Northern Provence

About this book

This guide provides a selection of 42 short to medium-length walks in the four regions of Provence: the Alpes Maritimes Var Vaucluse (including the Luberon and Cezannes mountain Mont Ventoux) and northern Provence (embracing the spectacular Gorge de Verdon).The walking in Provence is magical and full of discovery - an ancient ruin a tumbledown village monuments shrines old canals - villages and houses in the Provencal countryside that are amongst Europes earliest settlements. You are walking through history.The attraction of Provence is its diversity - one day you can be walking on a remote plateau or windswept hill the next down a leafy limestone gorge. Wherever you are you feel the need to linger to explore further.This guide will assist you in this exploration though many other interesting diversions make the walks take longer then anticipated. But the air of Provence is warm with herbs and when you finally arrive at the end of your walk there is a pastis waiting for you in a caf? under shady trees.