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It’s hard to believe but this is just a 10  minute walk from the cours Mirabeau.

The Torse park is a wonderful natural area which follows the little river from the route de Cézanne down to the route de Nice.   There are ancient plane trees for shade and big open grassy areas for playing Frisbee, slack-line or roly-poly, and having picnics.  Unlike many local parks, you can enjoy the grass!  And now dogs have to keep to the footpaths which is so much healthier for all.

There are play areas for the children, a jogging circuit for the many keep-fit fans, and now a green gym which seems very popular each time I walk past.

Plus, in walking in the Torse, you are following right in the footsteps of Cézanne and Zola, who liked to hang out writing poetry and dreaming about their futures by the stream.

When it gets steamy hot in centre ville, here’s the perfect place to think ‘a green thought in a green shade’….