Unlike many tourist villages in the south of France, Cotignac has kept its authentic way of life and the surrounding landscape reflects this in vineyards and groves of olive trees.
But agriculture is no longer back-breaking peasant toil. Modern technology and efficient marketing through the cooperative Vignerons de Cotignac have changed the lives of the Cotignacéens.

This can be seen at the Tuesday morning marché on Cours Gambetta where everyone gets together to gossip with frlends over coffee and choose among the display of local cheeses, honey, truffles., olive oil, fruit and vegetables. home-cured ham and sausages ... A warm, friendly, multicultural village, Cotignac has attracted musicians, artists, writers and businessmen from elsewhere in France and Europe and from North America to live out their lives and draw inspiration from its tranquillity and sense of space. These people, too, are becoming part of the fabric of the village.

On nearby Lac Sainte-Croix there is sailing and wind-surfing, rafting, canoeing and rock- climbing in the Gorges de Verdon, and fishing in the rivers. But to walk or cycIe through wooded hills and meadows, in solitude. among the scents of rosemary, thyme, lavender and sage, the colours of myriad wild flowers. Here at last you have the true essence of ... Provence.

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