Formerly named Val de Camps, then Camps les Brignoles, the current name owes its origin to a deliberation taken by the Municipal Council in 1936.

The village is built around its church dedicated to Saint Mary around 1017, on the southern slope of the hill of Saint-Sébastien.

Until the 18th century, the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille retained the authority of Camps-la-source.

Since 1616, Camps-la-source has had its own coat of arms with fleur-de-lis cross, on which is inscribed the village motto: In campis fructificabo (in the fields we will flower).

Wearing this coat of arms allowed hatters to avoid paying local taxes and farmers to pay their taxes at a lower rate than in the Middle Ages under Louis XIII.

- The situation: Located south of Brignoles, at an altitude of 259 meters, the village of Camps-la-source offers you both calm and easy access to the great sites to discover in green Provence.

Camps-la-source is a charming little village protected and bounded by evergreen hills with its pines and oaks.

- Living in Camps-la-source: Number of inhabitants: 1,829, restaurants, bars, grocery stores, nursery and primary schools, markets on Wednesdays on the household square, library, TGV station (Aix en Provence) only 50 minutes away , 1 hour from Marseille International Airport

- To see: The Saint-Quinis chapel, the felt factories, the Sainte Marie church, the wine cooperative today disused but important for the department because it is here the first cooperative created in the Var, the various fountains erected in the 19th century and, of course, the most characteristic element of the village: the source of Camps which forms a basin in the heart of a shady square and which supplied the felt and hat factories.

-Why buy in Camps-la-source: Camps-la-source is a pleasant village where the serenity preserved from yesteryear reigns, while accepting a certain modernism which nevertheless respects the memory and conservation of old stones.

You will have the choice between lounging on a fine sandy beach near Toulon, a cultural day in Aix en Provence or why not a day of shopping. Camps la source is a village that has remained rural but the discovery of this village and its surroundings is still to be done.

As you walk through the village, the smells of rosemary, broom and thyme will invade you!