Coaraze

A blue lizard with a broken tail sits on Coaraze's coat of arms, a nod to the Occitan reading of its name as 'shaved tail'. At 667 metres, the village crowns a sandstone peak above the Paillon de Contes, with olive terraces below and vaulted passages within. In 1960 the mayor asked artists, Jean Cocteau among them, to make sundials that now adorn the town hall, church square and school.

Highlights

• Sundials by artists, including Jean Cocteau's 'Les Lézards'
• The Chapelle Bleue, painted in shades of blue by Ponce de León
• Chapelle Saint-Sébastien, a plague chapel with 16th-century frescoes of the saint
• A four-hour walk to the ghost village of Rocca-Sparviera
• Sunday-morning market of seasonal fruit and vegetables

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.