The travel information portal provence-info.de, titled “Provence and Côte d’Azur – Holidays in the South of France”, is a good tip for anyone who wants to find out about the holiday region of Provence and neighbouring regions such as the Languedoc. The website contains a great deal of detailed information with numerous pictures of towns, villages and landscapes, as well as travel tips and notes on traffic rules, shopping, safety and typical recipes.
A visit to these web pages is worthwhile in any case. Even experienced travellers to France will discover one or two interesting or useful hints and can take away ideas for their next trip to the south of France.
The web portal is clearly structured into the areas towns, villages, landscapes, sights, travel tips, links and recipes. Each area in turn contains very detailed descriptions and illustrations. Towns such as Monaco, Saint-Tropez, Marseille, Cannes, Cassis, Menton or Nice on the Côte d’Azur are included, as are Arles or Orange. Well-known villages such as Gordes, Bonnieux, Roussillon with its famous ochre quarries, the little fishing port of Cassis just east of Marseille and many other “gems” of French culture and way of life are described in great detail and illustrated with beautiful photos. A separate page is devoted to each town, each village and each travel tip. The routes are also described vividly, right down to parking fees and other useful tips for tourists.
The varied and impressive landscapes of the southern French travel areas are likewise described in great detail and vividly. Whether the gorges of the Verdon, the windy summit of Mont Ventoux, visible from afar, the rocky fjords of the Calanques between Marseille and Cassis, the island of Porquerolles off the coast, the wild Camargue with its flamingos, white horses and black bulls, or religious and Roman buildings such as the Cistercian Abbey of Sénanque or the Pont du Gard aqueduct, the visitor to the website reads much that is well known, new or inspiring. Spectacular sights such as the Pont d’Arc at the Ardèche Gorge or the Aven d’Orgnac cave are of course not missing from these pages either.
In addition to the website provence-info.de, you should also look at the associated Facebook page www.facebook.com/ProvenceInfo. Here too, many photos of numerous destinations in Provence and the Languedoc are posted.