In Draguignan, the Pierre de la Fée is a dolmen dating from 2500 BC and protected as a Monument historique.
Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Draguignan will find information here about dolmens, museums, markets and trails.
Culture
The Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in Draguignan contains the graves of 861 American soldiers, including 62 unknown soldiers, who died during the fighting in 1944. A Wall of the Missing there lists 294 Americans whose remains were never found or identified.
The digital tour through the Quartier des Arts uses QR codes on buildings to convey local history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Tour de l’Horloge is a 24-metre-high historic monument accessible via 79 steps, offering panoramic views of the Dracénie landscape.
The ethnographic collections of the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires document agricultural, industrial, religious and festive activities, as well as local know-how from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Draguignan focuses on the visual arts and bears the Musée de France designation.
The Musée de l’Artillerie in Draguignan is fully open to the public and covers the human and technical history of artillery from 1324 to the present day. Its collection includes old and modern cannons, ammunition, reconstructions, uniforms and individual weapons.
The Micro-Folie in Draguignan includes a virtual museum with more than 3,200 digitised works of art in very high resolution. Visitors can explore the Micro-Folie collections independently using a tablet connected to a large screen.
Markets
The food and non-food markets in Draguignan take place every Wednesday and Saturday morning at Place du Marché, Rue Pierre Clément and Boulevard Jean-Jaurès. The Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires offers themed tours with tastings of regional products for groups of adults of ten or more.
Nature
The Sentier le toit du Malmont hiking trail leads to the 604-metre-high summit of Malmont. The Sentier des arbousiers has two viewpoints, one of which offers a view of Draguignan.
At the Sentier botanique, at an altitude of 500 metres, there is an orientation board with a panorama stretching from the Bay of Fréjus to the peaks of the Massif des Maures and, in clear weather, views of the Mediterranean Sea. A walk along the banks of the Nartuby between La Clappe and La Granégone allows visitors to observe a remarkable range of wildlife and plant life.
