Cotignac is located in the Var department and the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur. The old village is a registered site and doubled the number of its inhabitants in the last forty years, and has also a very active craft industry. Cotignac is located against a rock at north and along a small brook, Cassolle, which sprinkles the commune that she traverses of north in the south and which falls from a water cascade of 10 meters. With the Verdaille mount in south-west, dominating Right Bank of the torrent, the church Notre Dame de Grâces, founded is in 1519, and drank of a pilgrimage formerly very famous in Provence against the sterility of the women since the visit that Louis XIV and Anne of Austria, his mother, had made there. Wikipedia |