δ'Azur & δ'Ailleurs

Landscapes
The term Côte d'Azur was created by Stéphane Liégeard in the eponymous book where he calls azure the color of the sky "from Hyères to Genoa".

This purely literary definition globally covers the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes, delimited to the north by the first Alpine peaks, to the west by limestone Provence and to the east by the Riviera dei Fiori, its Italian counterpart, that bathes the Mediterranean sea to the south.

And elsewhere ? to the south, it's overseas, to the east, it's abroad, to the west, mosquitoes, to the north, it's cold! it's the North!
Azure Alps Italy
Upper Verdon Valleys of the Var Roya
Provence Verdon Arch of Castellane Pre-Alps Paillons
Gates of Provence North Dracénie Land of Fayence Balconies of the Coast Riviera
Spring of Argens Argens Estérel Azure coastline
Sainte Baume Heart of Var Maures
Toulonnais Peninsula Corse
This virtual region is divided here based mainly on the characteristics of the relief, without exactly overlapping the currently existing administrative divisions:

High Country: Medium Country:
  • The Verdon
  • The Arch of Castellane
  • The pre-Alps of the French Riviera
  • At the gates of Provence
  • North Dracénie
  • The Land of Fayence
  • The balconies of the Coast
  • The source of the Argens
  • The Argens
  • Sainte Baume
  • The Heart of Var
Coastal strip:
  • The Toulon mountains
  • The peninsula of Giens
  • Maures Massif
  • The Estérel and Tanneron massifs
  • The coastline of the Riviera
  • Nice and the Riviera
The neighborhood
  • Corsica, daughter of the Estérel
  • Italy and its Riviera dei Fiori
  • The bordering Provence

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