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The Garlaban Mountain is located west of Aubagne and Roquevaire and culminates up to 710 meters.  Most of its part is made of limestone but it still has traces of the previous agrarian activity: numerous terraces of culture and ancient farms. Various tracks can be found and especially the Pagnol tracks, which allow visitors the major elements of the novels and films of the famous French Academician.

The Sainte Baume Mountain: made of limestone, it stretches from Tourves to Aubagne, from the Var to the Bouches du Rhone administrative division.
It offers a unique north mountainside in Provence because of its wetness and its very humid vegetation, made of broad-leaved trees and boxwoods. Its cliffs shelter the Maria Magdalena cave, a very famous place of pilgrimage. The south mountainside is characterized by a soft slope, bathed by sun and a arid vegetation. Its summit culminates up to 1.148 meters, with an altitude similar to the Grand Luberon and the Sainte Victoire Mountains.

The Etoile Mountains, west of Aubagne and Roquevaire, is also made of limestone where large rupestrian zones stretch.
Its flora represents a big interest with endemic and rare kinds. It stretches over
 a 9.241 hectares-area and culminates up to 800 meters.

The Regagnas Mountains are located north of Auriol and east of Saint Zacharie, between the Sainte-Baume and Sainte Victoire Mountains.

The Saint Cyr Mountains are located south of Aubagne.

The Aurélien Mount, located in the Var administrative division, northeast of Saint Zacharie, culminates up to 879 meters and stretches over more than 300 hectares. It allows a magnificent double view on the Sainte Victoire and Sainte Baume Mountains.

The state-owned forest of Cuges-les-Pins, the local forest of la Penne sur Huveaune…
In the massif of Garlaban, the three caves of Infernets, the 'Pestiférés' cave… but also  numerous sources and wells among which the source of Barquieu, the said source  'de Manon', the well of Arroumi, 'du Tambour', 'du Mûrier', and so on …
You can also admire on the area of the village of Saint Zacharie, the sources of Nayes, of the Huveaune River …

The protection laws validate the interest of this specific environment but compel some practices, especially practices of circumspection concerning risks of fire in massifs. So the access to the Sainte Baume and Garlaban Mountains is forbidden to the public by strong wind (60km per hour). This restriction is reinforced from the 1st of July to the second week-end of September, each year.

The ‘Notre Dame d’Orgnon Chapel’, and its rocky surroundings are an inventoried site (but private property), in Saint Zacharie


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