The hilltop village - Gattières

In the foreground, you can see the village of Gattières, with its bell tower towering above the village's old houses, narrow and tall, with their ochre and yellow tones and pitched roofs topped with round, golden-coloured tiles. The village has expanded in small steps, with buildings that are certainly more imposing but that retain the village's original colours and materials. Perched on a spur overlooking the Var plain, the village is built on an ovoid plan and, seen from the air, it...