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1 Marseille
24 Var Delights Long dismissed as the
Riviera’s troublesome
cousin – crime-ridden,
industrial, downright
dirty – Marseille has
This is the other side of the Côte d’Azur, snazzy in enjoyed a long-overdue
spots, stark and wild in others, taking in everything renaissance since its stint
as European Capital of
from seaside towns to hilltop villages and big, busy Culture in 2013. Though
cities. While many sections of the coast have been it’s true it has a much
grittier, rough-and-ready
heavily developed (especially around the big cities feel compared to the
of Marseille and Toulon) that doesn’t mean solitude coast’s more genteel
towns, it also has charac-
is impossible to find – you can hike to deserted ter in abundance.
Take a stroll around
coves in the Calanques, explore the forested trails the Vieux Port, then
of the Massif des Maures or get well and truly lost swing by the city’s
in the wild hills of the Var.
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Moustiers- Verdon Gorges du Verdon
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# \ Cadenet Verdon Ste-Croix Plan de Artuby
Canjuers
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Bois de Frannes
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Aix-en- Draguinan # \ Gorges de Pennafort
Provence Montagne Ste-Victoire
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Presqu’île Îles d' Hyè res Levant
du Cap Sicié Mediterranean Sea