Guidebook for La Fare-les-Oliviers
Shopping
This olive oil mill is 350m from our home and has been producing oil since 1706. Whilst the inside has been beautifully renovated, you can still see the old stone works surrounding the mill and there are old olive oil production tools on display. As well as selling great olive oil, there are many delicious regional products available too. Further information :
https://moulindelafare.fr/index.php
6 locals recommend
Moulin A Huile de la Fare Des Oliviers
14 Av. du PavillonThis olive oil mill is 350m from our home and has been producing oil since 1706. Whilst the inside has been beautifully renovated, you can still see the old stone works surrounding the mill and there are old olive oil production tools on display. As well as selling great olive oil, there are many delicious regional products available too. Further information :
https://moulindelafare.fr/index.php
This delicious artisan Chocolate Maker is 1.8 kilometres from our house and open from October to May each year.
http://www.koifaire.com/paca/chocolaterie,la,cardeline-22411.html
Chocolaterie La Cardeline
35 Avenue des GramenièresThis delicious artisan Chocolate Maker is 1.8 kilometres from our house and open from October to May each year.
http://www.koifaire.com/paca/chocolaterie,la,cardeline-22411.html
Super U et drive
157 Av. du TourailLidl
146-148 Av. des ChartreuxLe Grand Large Poissonnerie
5127 Rte de BerreLe Potager de Ventabren
6736 D10Drinks & Nightlife
This wine co-operative is 300 metres from our home and offers a wide range of wines made from the grapes grown in our village. There are free tastings available and they also sell local food products.
http://www.vignerons-castellas.fr
Les Vignerons du Castelas
This wine co-operative is 300 metres from our home and offers a wide range of wines made from the grapes grown in our village. There are free tastings available and they also sell local food products.
http://www.vignerons-castellas.fr
This winery and olive oil producer is 4.2 kilometres from our house and worth the drive as it has an excellent range of wines, oils and local products of very high quality. There are free tastings of both oils and wines, beautiful gifts baskets available, you can tour the winery and see the olive oil production area, there is a newly built cinema showing the history and information of this winery and it is in gorgeous surroundings with a pretty drive over.
http://www.chateauvirant.com/en/chateau-virant/
13 locals recommend
Chateau Virant
This winery and olive oil producer is 4.2 kilometres from our house and worth the drive as it has an excellent range of wines, oils and local products of very high quality. There are free tastings of both oils and wines, beautiful gifts baskets available, you can tour the winery and see the olive oil production area, there is a newly built cinema showing the history and information of this winery and it is in gorgeous surroundings with a pretty drive over.
http://www.chateauvirant.com/en/chateau-virant/
"Château Calissanne, is 5.7 kilometres from our house and is a thousand-year-old property, stands in a 1,200 hectare estate in one of the most gorgeous corners of Provence. This unique domaine offers an array of landscapes as rich as the 11 grape varieties that make up its 110 hectares of AOC Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence vines. Sixty hectares of AOC Aix-en-Provence olive trees thrive in chalky soils, facing the mountains dear to local playwright Marcel Pagnol."
https://www.chateau-calissanne.fr/en/chateau-calissanne/
6 locals recommend
Chateau Calissanne
"Château Calissanne, is 5.7 kilometres from our house and is a thousand-year-old property, stands in a 1,200 hectare estate in one of the most gorgeous corners of Provence. This unique domaine offers an array of landscapes as rich as the 11 grape varieties that make up its 110 hectares of AOC Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence vines. Sixty hectares of AOC Aix-en-Provence olive trees thrive in chalky soils, facing the mountains dear to local playwright Marcel Pagnol."
https://www.chateau-calissanne.fr/en/chateau-calissanne/
Parks & Nature
This fantastic walk along the huge salt water pond is 12.8 kms from our house. You can see pink flamingoes, ducks, egrets, cormorants, swans, reeds, groves of vegetation and hunters' shelters as you walk along the paths and over bridges.
Everywhere on the shore the ground is strewn with shells bleached by the sun and a gorgeous view over the waters.
https://www.tourmagazine.fr/La-Petite-Camargue-de-l-etang-de-Berre_a11992.html
6 locals recommend
La Petite Camargue
This fantastic walk along the huge salt water pond is 12.8 kms from our house. You can see pink flamingoes, ducks, egrets, cormorants, swans, reeds, groves of vegetation and hunters' shelters as you walk along the paths and over bridges.
Everywhere on the shore the ground is strewn with shells bleached by the sun and a gorgeous view over the waters.
https://www.tourmagazine.fr/La-Petite-Camargue-de-l-etang-de-Berre_a11992.html
This is a sandy beach with palm trees along the great pond and is 10.6 kms from our house. Here you can swim, picnic and do canoeing and stand up paddleboarding :
https://www.facebook.com/Locasup-Berre-létang-1429197454054361/
7 locals recommend
Plage de Champigny
This is a sandy beach with palm trees along the great pond and is 10.6 kms from our house. Here you can swim, picnic and do canoeing and stand up paddleboarding :
https://www.facebook.com/Locasup-Berre-létang-1429197454054361/
Sightseeing
Saint-Chamas is an ancient fortified town and a fishing village 16kms from our house. The town is divided by a very high narrow cliff, still with its troglodyte habitation [houses built into the rocks], protecting the landward side from the sea. The main street passes through the wide gap in the cliff wall, beneath a high arched passage crossing from one side to the other on tall stone pillars that you can climb up to and see the most amazing view. Many of the houses look as ancient as they are, but many are well painted in Provencal pastels with contrasting trim and shutters. There is a single-arch first-century-BC Roman bridge at the south edge of town.
Saint Chamas station
Saint-Chamas is an ancient fortified town and a fishing village 16kms from our house. The town is divided by a very high narrow cliff, still with its troglodyte habitation [houses built into the rocks], protecting the landward side from the sea. The main street passes through the wide gap in the cliff wall, beneath a high arched passage crossing from one side to the other on tall stone pillars that you can climb up to and see the most amazing view. Many of the houses look as ancient as they are, but many are well painted in Provencal pastels with contrasting trim and shutters. There is a single-arch first-century-BC Roman bridge at the south edge of town.
Salon-de-Provence
Aix-en-Provence
Carrières de Lumières
Route de MaillaneSaint-Rémy-de-Provence
Food scene
La Table de la Fontaine - Restaurant Ventabren
5127 Rte de BerreÔ Grain de Pizz'
Route de BerreLe clos des oliviers
hameau des baisses