Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume

Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (French pronunciation: [plɑ̃ dops sɛ̃t bom]; Provençal: Lo Plan d’Aups de la Santa Bauma, before 1993: Plan-d'Aups)[3] is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

In June 1944, at the aftermath of D-Day when the French Resistance went on an offensive against the German occupiers, the hills near Plan-d'Aups were the site of a bloody battle.

Some 200 Maquis had set up a camp there, commanded by SOE agent Robert Burdett.

Though taken by surprise due to a faulty placing of guards, the Maquis did inflict considerable casualties on the Germans and many of them managed to escape into the surrounding mountains.

The average annual rainfall is 1,001.8 mm (39.44 in) with November as the wettest month.