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Abbaye de Montmajour

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Founded in 948 by Benedictine monks.
Abbaye du Thoronet

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One of the most remarkable abbeys from the Cistercian order. Here, the emotion born of absolute architecture skinning, stone and light combining to perfection.
Château d'If

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Fortress built by Francis I, remained famous thanks to Alexandre Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
Cloître de la cathédrale de Fréjus

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Episcopal Cathedral. The ceiling of the cloister, unique and unknown example of medieval painting, it's exceptional bestiary of fantastic animals.
Monastère de Saorge

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Former Franciscan monastery, shiny Baroque testimony overlooking the gorge of the Roya.
Place forte de Mont-Dauphin

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An imposing mountain citadel built by Vauban in an exceptional site. The Fortress is one of twelve fortifications of Vauban inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List.
Site archéologique de Glanum

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Revelation of exemplary town planning and important religious and civil monuments. Under your eyes will present a Gallic oppidum built around a sacred spring, a city of Greek and Latin influences.
Trophée d'Auguste à La Turbie

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One of the few buildings of this type still preserved today. From this highest point of the ancient Via Julia Augusta, we dominates all the entire French Riviera, from the Esterel to the Italian coast.
Hôtel de Sade

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This beautiful mansion houses the Archaeological Museum preserving furniture and carved elements found in and around Glanum.
This is the fifteenth century Helen Hugolin Fos began building a mansion, linked to the family home by an arch stretched across the street and subsisting. The marriage will unite some years later Agnette Hugolin Fos and Balthazar de Sade, see them settle here.
Villa Kérylos

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Located at the edge of the Mediterranean, at Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Alpes Maritimes) , the villa Kerylos was built in the early twentieth century by Emmanuel Pontremoli for Theodore Reinach on the model of a Greek villa of antiquity.