Camping near Cotignac in the Verdon

Visit of Cotignac in the Var

At the foot of a rock 80 meters high you have rendez-vous have one of the pearls of Var, Cotignac. This tour will take you just 17 kilometers from the campsite and you will discover a place with a real personality, ranging from wonders to surprises for a real jump in time. Cotignac is a village dominated by two Saracen towers, vestiges of the fortification that protected the place. They have the particularity of not having an entry at their base. An architectural specificity that raises many questions and has given rise to legends that are transmitted generations after generations in the Var. He told himself that they could communicate with each other by secret passages and we know that the inhabitants of Cotignac hid in secret caves in case of siege. These caves, for those that have been discovered, can now be visited and it is therefore at a time in the history of the Var that we attend when we visit Cotignac.