Chartreuse and Tree Strawberries in the Maures – 31th Edition

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 9:33 am

We had a good 7-hour loop hike yesterday in the Maures forest, beginning at the edge ofCollobrieres(in the Var department). Thickly forested hills, not as steep as the Alpes, but we still did over 900 m vertical.

The loop took us through woods of cork oak, chestnut and even the small cedar forest of Ragusse.

The highlight was a short visit (external only) of the Chartreuse de la Verne, an impressive 12th-century Carthusian-order monastery – now an active monastery of the Congregration of