In Spring

During a stay in Spring

 

    Visit all towns in the country "Var" or in the nearest "Alpes maritimes" country:

 Giens             Collobrières, Grimaud, Gonfaron, Montauroux, Peymeinade, Biot..... 

    -Go and hear musik, in Fréjus during "la bravade", at the end of April  

    -Visit Areca park, near St Aygulf center and Villepey pond

    -In May, the international price of competition cars in Monaco (about 95kms)

    -Roses feast in the country around Grasse (about 30kms)

    -Visit forts and castles.

In Villeneuve Loubet (60kms), look at this castle built in XIIIè

It's Romée de Villeneuve, who built the castle and so the town was born.

François 1er lived in this castle in 1538

  

                      St Honorat castle in front of Cannes (40kms). "This castle is built on the sea"G. Maupassant

 

                      Briançon casle, near "Le Lavandou"(55kms)

 

                                                

                                                                                                                                                 The simplicity of cistercien order, Thoronet abbaye   

 

 

  St Jean castle and the Marseille cathedral(150kms)               

    -Visit churchs, cathedrals and monastry

    Lorgues abbaye (35kms)

Silvacanne abbaye and cistercien order, in La roque d'Anthéron (120Kms) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                                 Grasse cathedral                                            

 

                                                                                                                                

Roman church (XVIIè), Collobrières monastry(54kms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

                                                                                       St Honorat church (take the boat in Cannes port to Lérins isle)

    -Meeting "retro-auto" in Fréjus

   -Books feast in Cannes (40kms)

     -In the middle of May, don't forget international festival of films in Cannes    

    -Meeting of motor bikes and Harley Davidson in St Tropez   

    -Walk in the middle of flowers, along the riviera, "le Pertuis" near St Raphaël and on the road near the sea

   -Go and walk around St Cassien lake (30kms), Arena lake near Roquebrune-sur-Argens roc (about 10Kms) 

                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

   Roquebrune/Argens roc and Arena lake                                                      St croix lake ("les gorges du Verdon", 70kms)

       -In June, show of competition cars and "vieux tacots", in Rocbaron (about 83Kms)

    -Play in Aqualand, luna park, near St Aygulf, aventure park in Puget/Argens (10Kms)      

Marineland 

      -Feast of fisherman in St Tropez (about 25Kms), at the end of June                                                                                             park in Vidauban