Walking in Provence

This guide provides a selection of 42 short to medium-length walks in the four regions of Provence: the Alpes Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse (including the Luberon and, Cezanne's mountain, Mont Ventoux) and northern Provence (embracing the spectacular Gorge de Verdon).The walking in Provence is magical and full of discovery - an ancient ruin, a tumbledown village, monuments, shrines, old canals - villages and houses in the Provencal countryside that are amongst Europe's earliest settlements. You are walking through history.The attraction of Provence is its diversity - one day you can be walking on a remote plateau or windswept hill, the next down a leafy limestone gorge. Wherever you are, you feel the need to linger, to explore further.This guide will assist you in this exploration, though many other interesting diversions make the walks take longer then anticipated. But the air of Provence is warm with herbs and when you finally arrive at the end of your walk there is a 'pastis' waiting for you in a caf? under shady trees.