History of Toulon

Discover Toulon's specialties: historic street food, local sweets, Provençal biscuits and Mediterranean culinary heritage. The foundations of Var gastronomy: a history rooted in Antiquity Wheat, vines, and olive trees, which form the Mediterranean triad, have been the cornerstones of agriculture in the Mediterranean basin for millennia. In the Var region, their presence is attested as early as Antiquity, notably at the archaeological site of Olbia, near Hyères. Even in Roman