Editing Provence (section)

=== Mountains ===
[[File:Alpilles landscape.jpg|thumb|[[Alpilles]] landscape near Le Destet]]
By considering the [[Maritime Alps]], along the border with Italy, as a part of the cultural Provence, they constitute the highest elevations of the region (the [[Punta dell'Argentera]] has an elevation of 3,297 m). They form the border between the French ''[[département in France|département]]'' [[Alpes-Maritimes]] and the Italian [[province of Cuneo]]. [[Mercantour National Park]] is located in the Maritime Alps. On the other hand, if the ''département'' [[Hautes Alpes]] is also considered as part of the modern Provence, then the alpin [[Massif des Écrins|Écrins mountains]] represent the highest elevations of the region with the [[Barre des Écrins]] culminating at 4102m.

[[File:Mont ventoux from mirabel.jpg|thumb|left|View of Mont Ventoux from [[Mirabel-aux-Baronnies]]]]
[[File:Vallon de Mollières 2004 07.jpg|thumb|left|Vallon de Mollières, [[Mercantour National Park]]]]
Outside of the Maritime Alps, [[Mont Ventoux]] (Occitan: Ventor in classical norm or Ventour in Mistralian norm), at {{convert|1909|m|sigfig=4}}, is the highest peak in Provence. It is located some 20&nbsp;km north-east of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the Drôme département. It is nicknamed the "Giant of Provence", or "The Bald Mountain". Although geologically part of the [[Alps]], is often considered to be separate from them, due to the lack of mountains of a similar height nearby. It stands alone to the west of the [[Luberon]] range, and just to the east of the [[Dentelles de Montmirail]], its foothills. The top of the mountain is bare limestone without vegetation or trees. The white limestone on the mountain's barren peak means it appears from a distance to be snow-capped all year round (its snow cover actually lasts from December to April).

The [[Alpilles]] are a chain of small mountains located about {{convert|20|km}} south of Avignon. Although they are not particularly high – only some {{convert|387|m}} at their highest point – the Alpilles stand out since they rise abruptly from the plain of the [[Rhône]] valley. The range is about 25&nbsp;km long by about 8 to 10&nbsp;km wide, running in an east–west direction between the Rhône and Durance rivers. The landscape of the Alpilles is one of arid [[limestone]] peaks separated by dry valleys.

[[File:Paul Cézanne 107.jpg|thumb|''[[Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)|Mont Sainte-Victoire]]'', painted by Paul Cézanne]]
[[Montagne Sainte-Victoire]] is probably the best-known mountain in Provence, thanks to the painter Paul Cézanne, who could see it from his home, and painted it frequently.
It is a [[limestone]] mountain ridge which extends over 18 kilometres between the [[Départements of France|départements]] of [[Bouches-du-Rhône]] and [[Var (département)|Var]]. Its highest point is the ''Pic des mouches'' at 1,011&nbsp;m.

The [[Massif des Maures]] (Moor Mountains) is a small chain of mountains that lies along the coast of the Mediterranean in the department of Var, between [[Hyères]] et [[Fréjus]]. Its highest point is the signal de la Sauvette, 780 metres high. The name is a souvenir of the [[Moors]] (''Maures'' in Old French), [[Arabs]] and [[Berber people|Berbers]] from North Africa, who settled on the coast of Provence in the 9th and 10th centuries. The Massif des Maures extends about sixty kilometres along the coast, and reaches inland about thirty kilometres. On the north it is bordered by a depression which is followed by the ''[[Route nationale|routes nationales]]'' 97 and 7, and the railroad line between Toulon and Nice. On the south it ends abruptly at the Mediterranean, forming a broken and abrupt coastline.

The peninsula of [[Saint-Tropez]] is part of the Massif des Maures, along with the [[Giens Peninsula]] and the islands offshore of [[Îles d'Hyères|Hyères]]; [[Porquerolles]], Port-Cros, and [[île du Levant]]. Cape Sicié, west of Toulon, as well as the Massif de Tanneron, belong geologically to the Massif des Maures.