Aups discovery tour

Aups

Aups, the capital of the Haut-Var region, is situated close to Lake Sainte-Croix and the Gorges du Verdon, and is sure to charm you with its many facets. You can relax, stroll, enjoy leisure activities, take part in festivities and discover new things in the shade of the plane trees...

Saint Pancrace Collegiate Church

This collegiate church has a museum of precious religious art where you can admire the oldest processional cross in Provence dating from the 14th century and hand-embroidered ornaments from the 17th century.

Discovery tour "Between nature and heritage"

Let yourself be guided through the alleys of the village and discover its history, its natural and cultural heritage. The explanations are in French and in English.

Simon Segal Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art which includes three schools of painting (Toulon, Bourges and Paris) with more than 280 paintings including 58 of the painter Simon Ségal

Resistance Museum

This museum is very well documented, both in terms of local resistance and the more general history of French resistance.

Monument of the insurrection

Also called the monument of the Resistance, pyramid-shaped, it commemorates the dead of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état of December 1851.

public weighing

Until recently, this building was used to weigh loads of all kinds of crops.

Town Hall

This building was built in 1848.

Plane tree of the Duchâtel square

The oldest tree of Aups

Sundial Voltaire

This sundial from 1787 is registered in the inventory of Historical Monuments.

Place Louis Gauthier and its old halls

It was the old market place as early as the 15th century.

Clock Tower

The clock tower was erected in the 16th century, first as a watchtower to protect the village and then it was used as a prison in safer times.

Tower with worked balcony

Tower of the castle of the "De Blacas", dating from the 13th century, with an elaborate balcony.

Porte des Aires

Emblematic door of the village, it is from this place that one can best see the continuity of the remains of the ramparts of the 12th and 16th centuries.

Chapel Our Lady of Deliverance

This Chapel was built from public contributions in thanksgiving to the Virgin for having saved the village and its population during the violent battles, in 1851, between the partisans of Napoleon 3rd’s coup d'état and the Republicans.

Fountain with bust of Marianne

Prestigious fountain erected in 1826 at the entrance of the village.

Marechal Joffre place wash-house

Large covered wash-house of the commune whose construction was decided in 1850 and completed in 1852.

Tower and Ramparts

Watchtower of the village, it was part of the second wall of the Château des Blacas.

Foundations of the ancient castle of the Dukes of Blacas

Just under the square in front of the Chapelle de la Délivrance, these filled and closed rooms probably formed the lower rooms of the Château des Blacas.

Madonna of the Massacre

This original statue, nestled in the facade of the former church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption commemorates the massacre that took place there during the Wars of Religion.

"sarrasine" Tower

Medieval gate whose construction dates back to the Middle Ages. It is surmounted by a building known as the Saracen Tower. It is one of the square towers that marked out the rampart behind which the city was enclosed.

Joffre Sundial

A new sundial, this one was restored in 2004 and dates from 1777.

Ursuline Convent

A Cistercian convent of the 10th and 11th centuries, it was restored successively by the Augustinians, the Ursulines and the Trinitarians.

Les Salles-sur-Verdon discovery tour

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Villecroze discovery tour

Discover the village of Villecroze thanks to its discovery tour which can be downloaded below and is available at Villecroze Tourist Information Centre.

Artignosc-sur-Verdon discovery tour

Discover the village of Artignosc-sur-Verdon thanks to its discovery tour, which can be downloaded below and is available at Artignosc Town Hall.

Régusse discovery tour

Discover the village of Régusse thanks to its discovery tour which can be downloaded below and is available at Régusse Tourist Information Centre.

Bauduen discovery tour

Discover the village of Bauduen thanks to its discovery tour which can be downloaded below and is available at Bauduen Tourist Information Centre.

Discovery tour of the Artuby

Discover the Artuby region thanks to its discovery tour, which can be downloaded below and is available at La Martre and the Artuby Tourist Information Centre.

Tourtour discovery tour

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Aiguines discovery tour

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Poids public

This elegant building, dating from 1873 and equipped with an official weighing system, was decommissioned in 1961.

Tour et remparts "anciens châteaux des templiers à la révolution"