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Les Adrets de L’Estérel
Les Adrets de L’Estérel
Les Adrets de L’Estérel is a village of about 2,000, and an anomaly. Unlike the Massif des Maures with its handful of isolated villages, there are almost no villages in the interior of the Massif de l’Estérel. Les Adrets is an exception.
Les Adrets is situated on the ancient Roman road, the Aurelian Way, equidistant from the coastal towns of Mandelieu and Fréjus. It probably owes its very existance to that fact. The distance – 17 km/10½ miles – was apparently as far as the post horses could travel over the dry, brutal terrain before needing rest and water.
At any rate, Les Adrets has been a resting place for travelers for more than a thousand years. There is a record of a meal taken in the Auberge by the Prior of Lérins in 824. And, until the early 1960s, when it was renamed, the town itself was called l’Auberge des Adrets.
On a clear day, the view from the top of Les Adrets extends along the coast from Nice to Saint Tropez. Deep in the forest, it is a convenient stopping place for hikes to the top of Mont Vinaigre, at 618 m/2,000 feet, the highest point in the Estérel. And it is within a short hike of the excellent fishing, rowing, windsurfing and lake swimming on Lac Saint Cassien (about six km/3¾ miles directly north; take the D237 north to the first intersection, bear left onto the D837, which becomes the D37 after it crosses under the A8 Autoroute, follow signs to lake-front facilities).
Last updated March 15, 2012
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