French department
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a department in the French region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and is on the French border with Italy.
Cities edit
- 1 Draix
- 2 Annot
- 3 Barcelonnette
- 4 Castellane
- 5 Colmars-les-Alpes
- 6 Digne-les-Bains — natural beauty and supposedly curative thermal springs
- 7 Forcalquier
- 8 Manosque
- 9 Moustiers Sainte Marie
- 10 Sisteron
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- 1 Verdon Gorge – an awe-inspiring gorge
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- The Train des Pignes, a private railway between Digne-les-Bains and Nice is worth a trip entirely for its own sake but it also provides a great way of getting to starts or ends of walks in the lovely Mountains if you base yourself at one place on it such as Annot or Entrevaux.
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Terres noires
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hiking, VTT, canyoning,
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is bordered on the east with Italy.