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Aups and his black diamonds
Between vineyards and Verdon, in the middle of olive trees, capital of High - Var and some black truffle, Aups, village of character takes you in the discovery of the thousand one tastes of its land. You will discover there the genuine products which make his reputation.
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Located in 505 metres in altitude on the first Alpine foothills, Aups (Zaou in Provençal) is in 60 km of the seaside and in 80 km of snowfields. His dry and tempered, very healthy climate, in fact an ideal stay of holiday and repose.
Integrated since 2000 in the Regional Nature park of Verdon, the village of Aups is the South door of the Throats of Verdon, all over the world renowned site for its picturesque landscapes and however numerous activities with sports character it gives (climbing, sports of white-waters, natural walkings, ...)
Aups and his close surroundings are also renowned for their culinary specialities for the first ranks of which it is necessary to underline the wine, the honey, the oil of olive, and especially the black truffle the winter market of which appears among the most important in France.
Detaining the right of fair since the Middle Ages, Aups will also allow you to use both typical markets, a Wednesdays and Saturday morning as well as nocturnal markets organized under the plane trees of the place of the town hall.
County seat of district counting 1984 inhabitants, Aups, which is part of the chain " against villages of character ", will bring you all advantages of a city inscribed resolutely in the modernity (any services) to architecture and to heritage preserved.
Truffle
"Rabasse" - black truffle in Provençal - arrives in general at adulthood in winter and harvests from the end of November until mid-March. To pick it up trufficulteurs has three methods.
Having most used " Cavage " (out of) earth) by a dog is truffier, raised to this effect after a long study. The second, which tightens request to get lost, consists in using a pig (this one, attracted by the smell searches the soil of course but tries to devour the truffle).
Last, more unpredictable, the rabassière fly consists in noticing " Suilla gigantéa ") which lays its eggs in the loving flesh of truffles (more ripe the truffle is, more numerous are the flies!).
To note that the truffle, which saw in symbiosis with the tree under which it grows, needs of space out and abolish vegetation very around; it is everyday le "burned" and more good morning last am important, which will be la crop.
The purchase
They find it in most cases on markets in truffles. In Aups, a market, the 3rd from France all over its importance, is held every Thursday morning, from last Thursday of November to the last of February (see mid-March if the crop is abounding).
Opened to the wholesalers and to the individuals, lesson is fixed by the brokers according to quality and according importance of introduced truffles. An advice: a good truffle is the one who smells extremely, who is marbled well and who is not too much covered with earth …
Opened to the wholesalers and to the individuals, lesson is fixed by the brokers according to quality and according importance of introduced truffles. An advice: a good truffle is the one who smells extremely, who is marbled well and who is not too much covered with earth …
then do not hesitate to weigh up, smell, prove and compare prices and bring only the cash! Finally choose in January or February as the purchase, it is in this epoch when they are the best! A market of lesser importance also takes place every Wednesday morning in Riez.
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