About Weather/Climate/Temperature

Coffee is served in the café downstairs from six in the morning. There are over 8 restaurants and bars in the village, 5 of which are less than 300 meters from the house.

About Bars

Coffee is served in the café downstairs from six in the morning. There are over 8 restaurants and bars in the village, 5 of which are less than 300 meters from the house.

About Beaches

Sainte Maxime Beach only 25 minutes away

The best beaches are to the west of St. Maxime and in particular, La Nartelle. Which is only 25 minutes away from Flayosc.

St. Maxime is in the in the Gulf of St. Tropez and faces south and is sheltered from the winds by the Maures Mountains. Enter the old town by walking through the lively pedestrian streets, and then continue on towards the superb gardens ot the "Promenade". The walk ends up on the pier overlooking the gulf.

Le Lavandou
A beautiful sunny area with lavender and cicadas, Located at the foot of the Massif des Maures in the var department. In the heart of the Mediterranean coastal region of the south of France. With over 12km coastline, long, sandy beaches with small, wild inlets, there are a thousand little private hideaways. Le Lavandou used to be a small fishing port facing the marvelous Iles d'Or (Golden Islands), today it is a major international marina and sport fishing port. Divers come for the beauty of the sea bed with its rich marine life and crystal-clear waters.

La Gaillarde
Situated between Les Issambres and St. Aygulf which is south of St. Raphaël. There is plenty of free parking right next to the beach. The beach has plenty of facilities with a beach bar, café, toilets and a shower. A Small pizzeria and shop are nearby.

About Golfing

Stations Voiles (Sailing Centres) along the coast, belong to the France Station Voile, Nautisme et Tourisme network. Here one can get advice, rent equipment and make reservations for the many water sports.

About Sailing

Stations Voiles (Sailing Centres) along the coast, belong to the France Station Voile, Nautisme et Tourisme network. Here one can get advice, rent equipment and make reservations for the many water sports.

About Fishing

The Verdon is one of the most memorable settings of the world for fishing. It is sheer nature at its best featuring crystal clear emerald waters and white canyon cliffs 700 meters high above your head. It is a paradise for hikers, climbers and fly-fishers.

Federation Pêche Var
Federation of the Var for Fishing and the Protection of the aquatic environment. Lots of information about fishing in the Var region of Provence.

About Local Restaurants

Chez Bruno

This highly esteemed restaurant thoroughly deserves it's fame as one of the greatest French truffle restaurants. His cooking satisfies the expectations of the the most demanding gourmet. Bruno sets himself high standards, as is clear from the motto hanging in the kitchen. "Le travail bien fait n'est plus à faire, faisons-le avec le coeur." - "Not only work well, do it with the heart."

You don't dine à la carte at Chez Bruno, you order a three-course menu. The menu changes each week according to the season and the market, but Bruno tends to choose foie gras to complement his trademark truffles. Bruno, works with ten varieties of truffles, which enables him to serve truffles all year round, at very reasonable prices. The very expensive black truffle, or Tuber melanosporum, is only in season from mid-November through March. And the expensive white Alba truffle, is harvested from mid-October into December. Bruno doesn't deny that the Alba is unmatched for its aroma and complex taste, or that the melanosporum is superior in flavour to the cheaper summer truffle. His argument is simple. Aren't very good truffles better than no truffles at all?

2 Km south of Lorgues down the D10 towards Taradeau.

Chez Bruno
Campagne Mariette,
Route du Vidauban ,
83510 Lorgues, France
+33 (0) 4 94 85 93 93

About Walking

Walks in the local area

There is a lovely walk following the little canal of water that comes from a source and flows down to the village to the Fountain. I ti about 4 Kilometers and takes about an hour and a quarter. Walk out of the village towards Salernes, Past the chemist and the post office. when you reach the main road, cross over, turning left. To the right of a little batch of letter boxes are some steps going down frm the road. this is the begining of the path that follows the canal of water that brings the water to the lavoirs and fountain in the vilage of Flayosc. The path eventually finishes at the source about an hour and a quarter from the village.


Hiking trails just south of the village, between Flayosc and Lorgues, allow some loop hikes in the wooded hills around Le Peyrega and Les Lunettes, and past the hamlet of Sauve-Clare with its waterfall.


The nearest trails to the north are in the mountains between Tourtour, Ampus and Chàteaudouble, about 10 km away.
To the southwest, there are a number of hiking trails in the hills between Lorgues and Salernes.

About History

Historic sites in Provence

Provence has been inhabited since prehistoric times. It was known in ancient times as part of Narbonensis, inhabited by Ligurians and later Celts. The coastal strip was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians from around 600 BC onwards, with Marseille becoming one of the great trading cities of the Mediterranean. It was progressively settled by the Romans from the 2nd century BC, eventually becoming a province of the Roman Empire. This gave it its name, from the Latin provincia, as Provence was one of the first and most romanised provinces of the Roman Empire.

Christianity arrived in Provence very early and the region was already extensively Christianised by the 3rd century AD, with numerous monasteries and churches being constructed. Provence fared badly in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, suffering repeated invasions: Visigoths in the 5th century, Franks in the 6th century and Arabs in the 8th century, as well as repeated raids by Berber pirates and slavers.

Dolmens
Dolmens are collective graves. The room(chamber) funeral, opened to the sleeping, of which remain here the paving stone of coverage (about 25 tons) and the supports were contained in a stony screed.

Dante
"Folauet, called me these people..."
Dante quotes it in the Divine Comedy, paying homage to its talents of troubadour. Wire of merchant génois, Foulques had come to seek fortune in Marseilles before being devoted to poetry. In rupture with its past, it entered, in 1196, in the order of Cîteaux to become, in 1201, abbot of the abbey of Thoronet. Its election as bishop of Toulouse, in 1206, in the heart of the country cathare, falls under the logic of the pope Innocent III who, constantly, was based on the order of Cîteaux to try to extirpate the heresy. Until its death, December 25, 1231, and to the sides of other cistercians, like Pierre de Castelnau and Arnaud Amaury, but also of Domenica saint, Foulques was devoted, under difficult conditions, with this negotium pacis and fidei which was the Albigensian crisis. II was buried with the Cistercian abbey of Grandselve, close to Toulouse.

Musems
Lorgues
Draguignan
La Motte en Provence
Le Muy

Sites of beauty and historic monuments
Chapelle Ste Roseline
Gorge de Pennafort
Canyon Du Verdon (Gorges du Verdon)
Gorges de la Nartuby
Memorial Du Rhone