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Bormes-les-Mimosas
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Seventeen kilometres east of HyA?res,
BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS
, like all good ProvenA§al villages, is indisputably medieval in flavour, with a ruined but restored
castle
at the summit of its hill, protected by spiralling lines of pantiled houses backing onto short-cut flights of steps. The mimosas here, and all along the CA?te d'Azur, are no more indigenous than the people passing in their Porsches: the tree was introduced from Mexico in the 1860s, but the town still has some of the most luscious climbing flowers of any CA?te town.
To the southwest of Bormes is one of those rare unbuilt-up stretches of coast around
BREGANA?ON
and
CABASSON
, good wine-growing terrain, harbouring a presidential residence in the castle at
Cap de BreganA§on
. Unfortunately, access to the sea is heavily controlled, with three
beaches
charging hefty parking fees (and a small charge for pedestrians and cyclists). The beach by the castle past Cabasson is the best. Other useful information
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France,
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