Annot

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Nearby:  | Barcelonnette 83 km | Barrême 38 km | Castellane 33 km | 30 km | Colmars 39 km | 9 km | Digne-les-Bains 68 km | Entrevaux 13 km | Le Fugeret 7 km | Guillaumes 29 km | Méailles 10 km | Nice 82 km (airport) | Plan-du-Var 58 km | Puget-Théniers 22 km | Saint André-les-Alpes 25 km | Senez 5 km |

Below: | Geology | O.T. | Sports | Hiking | Lodging Hotels |

If you arrive by the Train des Pignes, it's a 10-minute walk down the road to the town. If you arrive by road, take a walk up to the train station for a look around. The station here has a small café-restaurant, and has some picnic hikes you can take. This is also the terminus for the steam train during the summer season.

Although this is a large town, it's high enough to have a distinctive mountain air. The Vaire river flows through the center of town, beneath a multi-arched stone bridge. The northwest side of town is overlooked by cliffs, with exposed rocks amidst thick pine forests.

There are several terrace cafés, with plenty of huge, shady plane trees. Saturday is the Foire, with mainly low-cost clothing, and Tuesday is market day (see Markets.)

Geology

The grés (in Grés d'Annot) is a sedimentary sandstone rock created about 60 million years ago when this area was under the sea. Grains of sand were pressed together under intense pressure and cemented together by a natural silicon or calcium cement. The sandstone cliffs were exposed by several million years of glacial and fluvial erosion.

Office de Tourisme

Tel: 04 92 83 23 03; Fax: 04 92 83 32 82
Email: otsi.annot@wanadoo.fr

Sports

Skiing

For the winter time, a ski de fond site is indicated only 10 km out of town (west across the stone bridge).

Hiking

A 3-hour loop hike marked Grés d'Annot begins at the train station. You start by crossing the tracks to the north of the station. The trail goes through shady woods and forests and, at one point, follows around the side of a sandstone (grés) cliff that dominates the Vaire river valley. Total elevation change for the hike is 350 m.

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