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Just ten minutes from Grasse and five minutes from the Claux-Amic golf course, this small Provençal village is one of the true jewels of the Pays de Grasse. From the castle ruins to the scenic viewpoint, Cabris is worth the trip! You’ll be delighted to amble along its narrow, stair-stepped streets lined with old houses built in gray stone, with colorful facades and friendly gardens holding everything from cactus to fragrant lavender, proud cypresses to palms. Though you can easily get lost, it’s just as easy to get your bearings again and you’ll have fun while you’re at it! Sometimes you even pass beneath small stone bridges, adding that much more charm to the village. As you explore the lanes of Cabris, you are also treading in the footsteps of great names in French literature: Albert Camus, André Gide, Simone de Beauvoir, even Jean-Paul Sartre. Many famous 20^th-century writers have trod these streets, but the name Antoine de Saint-Exupéry comes up most often, as his mother lived here until 1972, her house marked with a small plaque.

Lastly, here and there are little shops where craftspeople sell their wares: handcrafted olive wood objects, stained glass windows, ceramics, tablecloths with Provencal patterns, little santon figures from Provence, and even crests bearing the effigy that’s on the Cabris coat of arms, a silver goat against a background of azure blue.