Moustier-Ste-Marie has been called the gateway to the Verdon Gorge - 'the front door' - if you will. But the gorge is not, as they say in France, a dead-end. So if there is front entry, it follows that there is an exit, or rear entry. Castellane was our halfway point whilst touring the Verdon Gorge and therefore the perfect spot to split the journey, have some lunch and splash out on a postcard. In a region dominated by precariously perched, hilltop villages, Castellane is the very opposite. Tucked deep down inside the entrance to the Grand Canyon du Verdon, the town is completely invisible as ...
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