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.
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.

Miramar Beach
This beach is just below the Thalassa institute, built on the same site as the former luxury Hôtel Miramar, founded in 1927 which gave its name to the beach, one of the most fashionable on the coast in the 1930s. It used to be called Plage Bernain.

About Golfing

There are more than ten golf courses in the near vicinity of Flayosc.

St Endreol
Twenty minutes from Flayosc
Spa and treatment facilities
Tennis Courts and jogging trail
Restaurant, Bar and Cafe

La Motte-en-Provence
Roquerbrune
Tourettes
Saint-Raphael x2
Sainte-Maxime
Gassin
Mandelieu-la-Napoule
Mandelieu
Brignoles

La Sainte Baume
83860 Nans Les Pins
Email : saintebaume@opengolfclub.com
Tél : (33) 04 94 78 60 12

Barbaroux Golf course
O ne of Europe’s most prestigious courses, located in the heart of Provence.
Barbaroux Golf course unfolds over a distance of 6068m (6614 yards) in a magnificent wooded landscape of 87 hectares. Pete and PB Dye, two American world renowned golf architects, chose the Provence to build their unique European jewel, their design combines the love for nature with technical flair; and is ornamented by 6vast lakes in the purest tradition of modern American golf design.
It is in this region of south of France that in 1989 was inaugurated this 18 hole of international standards: The Barbaroux Golf Club.

Spectacular with it’s natural beauty: Barbaroux is surrounded by vineyards and Mediterranean pine trees ‘covering the hillsides. The climate offers 300 days of sunshine per year. Barbaroux is a place where winters are dry and sunny, permitting golf all year around with temperatures achieving 15°C in December and January.

About Parks

Gorges du Verdon. Running from Moustiers-Ste-Marie east to Castellane. The world’s 2nd largest gorge, approximately 20km long and plunging more than 300m in places.

This immense and magnificent canyon straddles the departments of Var and the Alpes de Hautes Provence. The gigantic cliffs of calcareous rock are the result of the erosion of the Verdon river.

The Gorge du Verdon is one of Europe’s great natural wonders; formed where the blue-green Verdon river cuts a deep swathe through the high limestone plateau of Haute Provence. Often called Europe's Grand Canyon , this truly spectacular canyon is over 25 kms long and in places over 1000 metres deep, and the great cliffs are a playground for rock climbers. We take an easier route, with daywalks following footpaths that take us along the rim and through the great canyon, as well as exploring the surrounding hillsides and villages.

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.

Waterfall at Sauve-Clare, Flayosc
The waterfall is about 2 km south of the village on a pretty country lane through the fields and forests. The waterfall is small but beutiful and is near a huge tree next to the road. The water comes out over very mossy stones that have built up from deposits over thousands of years. There is a cave at the top, beside the falls, that goes back into the rocks and the ruins of a huge old mill are nearby, above the waterfall.

The Gorges du Verdon should be counted as one of France's great walks because, although it is hard work, the panorama of the Haute Provence is just overwhelming and makes the effort worthwhile. The path, called Sentier Martel which leads onto the Sentier de l'Imbut, alternates between the canyon's shoulders and the riverside, thus entailing a lot of climbing up and down.

About History

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.

The Abbey of Thoronet
The final installation of, L'Abbaye du Thoronet, close to Lorgues, took place in 1160. It took nearly forty years complete the construction of Notre-Dame du Thoronett. It could then receive a score of monks and several tens of brothers convers, these laic living near the monks without to have entered the orders.

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