Pourcieux (; oc, Porcièu) is a commune in the Var

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The small village provides a typical image of the Provence of Frédéric Mistral, with vine-grower's houses built around a castle, and a town square and fountain shaded by hundred year-old plane trees. Its sunny hillsides sit at the foot of the

Monts Auréliens Monts may refer to the following places in France: * Monts, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department * Monts, Oise, a commune in the Oise department * Alexander von Monts, German naval officer See also * Monts Castle, Switzerland ...

, a short distance from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire made famous by

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

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Communes of Var (department) {{Var-geo-stub