From Provence to Piedmont

Drailles and Carraires


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.

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