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This list of castles in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is a list of medieval castles or châteaus forts in the region in southern France. Links in italics are links to articles in the French Wikipedia .
Tourist attractions in Vaucluse (6 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Mercantour National Park (French: Parc national du Mercantour) a French national park located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes departments.Since it was created in 1979, the park has proven popular, with 800,000 visitors annually enjoying the 600 km (372 mi) of marked footpaths and visiting its villages.
7 See also. 8 Notes and references. Toggle the table of contents. ... This is a list of châteaux in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Sénanque Abbey was the first Cistercian monastery founded in Provence in 1148. The church was finished in 1178. A small community of monks still lives in the Abbey. The lavender fields around the Abbey make it one of the most photographed spots in Provence. Thoronet Abbey, in a remote valley near Draguignan, in the Var department, was founded ...
Provence has a special place in the history of the motion picture – one of the first projected motion pictures, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train into La Ciotat Station), a fifty-second silent film, was made by Auguste and Louis Lumière at the train station of the coastal town of La Ciotat. It was shown to an ...