Agriculture
Agriculture on the Côte d’Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Lancôme’s “Domaine de la rose” is located 10 minutes from our gites www.locations-06.fr in Grasse, the world’s perfume capital. The LANCOME brand, part of the international L’Oréal group, is the first in the cosmetics sector to invest in the cradle of French perfumery, Grasse, to have its own fields of flowers. In fact, other brands […]
Where can you visit Grasse’s most beautiful perfume flower estate? Read More »
Chestnut festivals are synonymous with autumn colors and the smell of chestnuts…
Where do the chestnut festivals take place on the Côte d’Azur? Read More »
Fête du PNR des Préalpes d’azur Every year, the Parc naturel régional des Préalpes d’Azur organizes a traveling festival in one of the park’s 48 member communes This year, the festive, friendly and cultural event will take place in the center of the village of Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey! More than 80 stands await you, including the Guilhem
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Verbena, the magic plant At Terroir-06, Guilhem CODERA, under the expert guidance of his grandfather Eugène MARIO, himself a former farmer, grows lemon verbena, a type of scented verbena. https://www.terroir-06.fr Around our gites www.locations-06.fr are our crops. You can discover Guilhem’s good products on his website www.terroir-06.fr where he proposes, in particular, from his verbena
Verbena, the magic plant in terms of taste and properties. Read More »
Terroir-06 On July 2, 2023, Valdeblore, just 1h30 from our gites www.locations-06.fr, hosted a great party: LA FÊTE DE LA TRANSHUMANCE. The herds of goats and sheep set off from afar, guided by shepherds and volunteers, through hamlets and villages to reach Valdeblore. Valdeblore was abuzz with activity that day. Young and old accompanied the
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Discover the world’s largest rose garden This Monday we went to see Larry Passetti who runs LES ROSIERS DE MOUGINS located 5 minutes from our gite in Mougins and 30 minutes from those at Bar sur Loupwww.locations-06.fr. For two generations the Rosiers de Mougins have been cultivated by the PASETTI family.Every day, for 30 years,
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Strawberry Festival This weekend, April 22 and 23, 2023, we were in Carros, 30 minutes from our gites www.locations-06.fr and our farm www.terroir-06.fr. It was the Carros Strawberry Festival. The famous Strawberry Festival was in its 48th year! Guilhem CODERA, farmer-processor, set up his Terroir-06 stand on the Place Louis Frescolini in Carros. This festival
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Falicon village of carnations Falicon is a pretty village of 2,000 inhabitants located just 10kms from Nice and 1h from our gites www.locations-06.fr in Le Bar sur Loup. This pretty, authentic village sits on a small promontory with magnificent views over Nice and the Baie des Anges. The village abounds in houses with colorful facades
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Fête des violettes in March Violet is one of the emblematic flowers of the Grasse region, along with rose centifolia, orange blossom, jasmine grandiforum, polliantes tuberosa, mimosa, narcissus and iris pallida. This was the first flower to be offered in a bouquet of flowers for cutting. Grasse perfumeries use the leaves of this delicate flower.
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