Tourrettes, Var

Tourrettes (French pronunciation: [tuʁɛt]; Occitan: Torretas) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Tourrettes is one of a series of "perched villages" overlooking the plain between the southern Alps and the Esterel massif, which borders the sea between Cannes and Saint-Raphaël.

The village is located on the road to Mons, which later on joins the Route Napoléon (linking Nice to Grenoble through the Alps).

In the recent years a high-standing golf resort has settled in Tourrettes, the Domaine de Terre Blanche.

The average annual rainfall is 874.4 mm (34.43 in) with October as the wettest month.

Dolmen de Tourrettes