Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a département in the French region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and is on the French border with Italy.

Cities

• Draix
• 1 Annot
• Barcelonnette
• Castellane
• Colmars-les-Alpes
• Digne-les-Bains — natural beauty and supposedly curative thermal springs
• Forcalquier
• 2 Manosque
• 3 Moustiers Sainte Marie
• 4 Sisteron

Other destinations

• 1 Verdon Gorge

Get around

• The Train des Pignes, a private railway between Digne-les-Bains and Nice is worth a trip entirely for its own sake but it also provides a great way of getting to starts or ends of walks in the lovely Mountains if you base yourself at one place on it such as Annot or Entrevaux.

See

Terres noires

Do

hicking, VTT, canyoning,

Go next

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is bordered on the east with Italy.