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La Treille Muscate €€
( 04 92 74 64 31;
www.la-treille-muscate.com
; place de l'Église; lunch/dinner menus
from €20/29; lunch Fri-Tue, dinner Fri-Wed)
This mid-village terrace restaurant has
exceptionally good Provençal cooking. Pricy, yes, but wow, the view. Quality assured.
PROVENÇAL
AROUND MOUSTIERS STE-MARIE
Le Petit Ségriès €
FARMSTAY
( 04 92 74 68 83;
www.gite-segries.fr
; r incl breakfast €69-79; )
Friendly hosts Sylvie and Noël offer five colourful, airy rooms in their rambling farm-
house. Family-style
tables d'hôte
(€21 with wine) - fresh lamb, rabbit, mountain honey -
are served at a massive chestnut table. Guided mountain-bike tours (from €65) are also
available.
Le Petit Lac €
( 04 92 74 67 11;
www.lepetitlac.com
;
rte du Lac de Ste-Croix; tent per 2 people
€15-23, cabins from €47; camping mid-Jun-Sep, cabins Apr-mid-Oct; )
This activity-oriented lakeside campground also has cute, woodsy eco-cabins (two-night
minimum).
CAMPGROUND
Castellane & Around
POP 1539 / ELEV 723M
The cobbled streets of utilitarian
Castellane
are dead off-season but teem in summer,
when tourist facilities and water-sports shops reopen. It's along the
Route de Napoléon
,
the pre-autoroute highway between Haute-Provence and the Côte d'Azur and a scenic by-
way between beach and mountains. Castellane's geology is complex and merits investiga-
tion if you're the slightest bit geeky.
Chapelle Notre Dame du Roc
is perched spectacularly above town on a 184m-high
rocky butte, jutting from yawning canyons like a giant tooth. On 15 August (Assumption
Day) pilgrims ascend by torchlight for Mass.