The Midi circuit in Porquerolles

1. Station 1: Le carrefour des oliviersLe carrefour des Oliviers is a peaceful place, a kind of public garden where villagers come to chat and children to play, under hundred-year-old trees. A few hundred metres further on, on the left, alignments of olive trees draw the light and the eye. The disappearance of ancient varieties and the importance of this species in Provençal culture explain why the Conservatoire Botanique National has taken such care to gather as many of them as possible. On...