The great sheep transhumance is part of Provence’s heritage. Historically, it mapped out its own road network, its drailles and carraires (tracks and rights-of-way), channels of communication between Lower Provence and the Alps. Most of these age-old paths have now disappeared. Nonetheless, short sections of them are still used by the few flocks herded
on foot from Var, Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence to the nearby Verdon, Ubaye, Var, Vésubie and Tinée Valleys.
