The village is said to have been founded around 400 B.C. by the Bormani, a Ligurian tribe from Italy who lived off piracy until the Roman pacification. In the 9th century, the inhabitants migrated to the heights to escape the Saracen attacks. The village was dominated by the castle of the Lords of Fos who belonged to the same family as the Viscounts of Marseille. During the Ancien Régime, Bormes became the model of a village self-managed by a council made up of bourgeois, artisans and peasants. At the end of the 19th century, English explorers brought back from Mexico a perennial plant with tiny yellow flowers, the mimosa. This plant of the acacia family found an ideal microclimate in the rocky amphitheatre of the village of Bormes. There are about 1,200 species, of which more than 700 are native to Australia. In Bormes, there are 90 varieties. Mimosa absolute is used in perfumery and cosmetology to make soaps and Bormes water, as well as in cooking, where it is used to make sweets, mimosa jellies, syrups and mimosette... The name of Bormes-les-Mimosas was generalized in the 1920s and became official in 1968. The mimosa, which has become the symbol of the city, is celebrated every year in February with the flower parade. The city is proud today to have a collection of mimosas unique in the world in a municipal park, the park Gonzalez.

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IN*83. Bormes-les-Mimosas, vue g Jean-Luc Armand
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