Bormes-les-Mimosas

Bormes -les -Mimosas (until February 15, 1968 Bormes Provençal Bouarmo ) is a commune with 7548 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) on the Mediterranean coast at the foot of the Massif des Maures in the Var department in the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur. The municipal area extends into a hillside on the Mediterranean coast up to 642 m above sea level.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1056 as Borma, but archaeological findings suggest a settlement back since Celtic times. The Port of Brégançon which is now one of Bormes, in ancient times was an important trading center for lead and granite from nearby mines. Numerous relics have survived from the period of Roman rule.

In the Middle Ages, the village was destroyed several times. Since 730 it repeatedly plundered the Saracens, 1393, the Corsairs. Some years before the Spaniards invaded the place. In 1529 it burned down the Moors, in 1539 the Genoese Andrea Doria and a few years later, in 1579 during the religious wars, the troops of the Comte de Carcès.

The hl. Francis of Paola was raised to the patron saint of the church, because he is said to have the angry in 1482 plague stopped. A statue at the Place St- François and the chapel dedicated to the patron of the 16th century remember today about it.

In 1913 a part of the boundaries of the newly founded town of Le Lavandou was slammed. The supplement of the name to the addition les Mimosas dates only from the year 1968. Napoléon III. brought the mimosa trees in 1867 by his campaigns of Mexico and let them cultivate in Bormes.

The Fort Brégançon used since 1968 to the French president as a summer residence.

Street of the mimosa

Bormes -les -Mimosas is the starting point of the road of mimosa, also called mimosa road ( frz: La Route du Mimosa; engl: Golden Route. ). It is a 130 km long tourist route that runs along the Côte d' Azur about Rayol- Canadel- sur -Mer, Sainte -Maxime, Saint- Raphaël, Mandelieu- la -Napoule, Tanneron and pégomas to Grasse. From January to mid-March are originally coming from Australia yellow flowering acacia plants in bloom.

Sons and daughters of the town

Bormes is the home of the corsairs Mourdeille Hippolyte (1785-1807) and Hippolyte de Bouchard (1780-1837), later Argentine revolutionary. The painter Alfred Courmes (1898-1993) was also born here,

Images from Bormes -les -Mimosas

Bormes -les -Mimosas

The Fort Brégançon near Bormes -les -Mimosas