Fontaine aux Mulets

The start of the descent to the bridge, and the water of the Canal de la Siagne

Local name: Fontaine aux Mulets

Collection: Nature trails · France · Open in OpenStreetMap

The story

The Fontaine aux Mulets, the Mule Fountain, was put up in Saint-Cézaire after the Canal de la Siagne arrived. The canal was authorized by a decree of August 25, 1866, and opened in 1868. It takes water from the river near Saint-Cézaire and carries it to Cannes. Today a union of coastal communes runs it. Until 1860 Saint-Cézaire belonged to the Var department. From the fountain the trail goes around the church, takes Rue du Docteur Aubin and joins the paved path of the long-distance trail GR 510. It descends through olive trees, and then yellow waymarks lead along an old mule track to the river. On the way the trail crosses the canal on a small footbridge.

On the trail

• Pont des Tuves — 5 km there and back, 2 h 30 min

Sources

• Randoxygène, Alpes-Maritimes Department — “Pont des Tuves ou des Gabres” (5 km there and back, +320 m, 2 h 30, easy)
• Wikipédia (FR) — Canal de la Siagne: the decree of 1866, the intake at Saint-Cézaire
• Wikipédia (FR) — Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne

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