Location: Sainte-Maxime in France
Nearest Airport:
Nice or Toulon-St Tropez at 90
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Nearest Train:
Saint Raphael at 20
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Nearest Motorway:
Le Muy at 22
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 9
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Car: recommended
Plan de la Tour is a historic unspoilt village dating from medieval times surrounded by forests of pine and oak offering the peace and calm of Provence in the shade of the plane trees but with easy proximity to the coast and the glitz and excitement of the Gulf of St. Tropez. Easy day trips to Monte Carlo are possible or alternatively just a little inland there is the 'Arrière-Pays Varois' - the hinterland of the Var 'département' with delightful countryside of hills and valleys, vineyards and pine forests. Because of the wonderfully sunny climate agricultural production is varied and plentiful. There are 37,000 hectares ( 90,000 acres ) of vineyards traditionally worked - often over many generations -by 450 different vintners. For visitors the choice of fresh produce is wonderful as this region produces every conceivable fruit and vegetable, honey (27,000 hives), lavender, thyme and ,of course, olive oil and is the largest producer of flowers in all of France.