Muy

Muy is a common French located in the department of the Var and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Geography

The Muy is located between the communes of La Motte, Roquebrune-sur-Argens, Plan-of-the-Turn and Vidauban.

The commune is served by the following transportation routes:

Trunk road 7;
Highway A8;
the line the SNCF Paris - Vintimille (the station of Muy being unused).

The rivers Argens, Nartuby and Endre sprinkle the commune.

History

In 1536, the inhabitants of the commune of Muy engarèrent a resistance against the invasion of the Provence by the emperor Charles Quint.

Among the great events of its History, the commune of Muy was also the theater of the parachuting of soldier at the time of the Débarquement of Provence in the night of the August 15th 1944.

Personalities related to the commune

Louis Nicolas Victor of Felix d' Ollières (1711 - 1775), count of Muy, Marshal of France and Secretary of State to the War under Louis XVI, born in Muy.

Tourist monuments and places

Museum of the release (see Operation Dragoon)
Turn Charles Quint
Gone provençaux from Thursday and Sunday, very attended as well by the tourists as by the inhabitants of the area.
throats of Pennafort

Economic activities

Vignobles, of which the Castle of the Wheel
Golf of Saint-Endréol
industrial Park, of which the regional deposit of the company Schlecker

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