Climbing in Provence
Orianne Tison ( Provence Luberon News) - 23/07/2009
There are mythical cliffs and ideal weather to take advantage for a long time of this sport which combines physical force with mental force. Come in Provence to discover beauty spots.
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Climb in Provence
The cliffs of Provence are calcareous and quite particularly appreciated so amateurs of rock-climbing. Indeed their constitution allows the security of holds. What is the best in Provence? The practice of this sport is almost possible all year long while, on ice-cold cliffs, under rougher climates, the rock-climbers are often obliged to wait for the return of the beautiful season. You will find the cliff which is convenient for you, to introduce you or to perfect you. Do not wait any more to rise and discover Provence under another angle. In your ropes, in your carbines and good climbing in Provence!
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Company of Guides - tel. 04 90 85 61 45
French Alpine club - tel. 04 90 25 40 48
Regional Provence committee the Alps Mountain and Climbing
French union Mountain and Climbs
8B avenue of the Brothers Light - 13500 MARTIGUES
Phone : 04 42 07 37 63
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The most beauty spots of climbing in Provence
The department of Vaucluse lists a small number of climbing spot but not the least! The setting of Buoux is all over the world known, where the biggest names of the climbing came to try their know-how. This spot is simply magnificent. The spot of Montmirail's laces is more known under the name of « spot of 4 seasons » and 8 other spots.
In the Bouches du Rhone, very renowned calanques which go from Marseille to Cassis, offers you a multitude of cliffs. The deep blue of the sea contrasts with the light of cliffs. A setting to be cut you breath! No far from d'Aix en Provence
is the mountain Sainte Victoire, it’s indeed on the painter Paul Cézanne who returned it famous, but the rock-climbers were also interested in it. It offers cliffs very adapted to the amateurs of climbing of all levels.
The Alpes de Haute Provence attracts numerous tourists every year due to the gorges of Verdon. It is a beauty spot which conceals many treasures. The specialists of climbing do not make a mistake there, they are numerous to come to " be in confrontation " on the walls of gorges. You will find there very numerous cliffs.
Author: Orianne Tison
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