Sights in St Tropez
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Cimitière Marin
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Place des Lices
St-Tropez’s legendary and very charming central square is studded with plane trees, cafes and pétanque players. Simply sitting on a cafe terrace watching the world go by or jostling with the crowds at its extravaganza of a twice-weekly market, which is jam-packed with everything from fruit and veggies to antique mirrors and flip-flops, are integral parts of the St-Tropez experience.
Artists and intellectuals have met for decades in the famous Café des Arts, now simply called Le Café (not to be confused with the newer, green-canopied Café des Arts on the corner of the square). Aspiring pétanque players can borrow a set of boules from the bar or buy their own at La…
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Vieux Port
Yachts line the harbour and chic visitors stroll the quays at the picturesque old port. In front of the sable-coloured town houses, the Bailli de Suffren statue, cast from a 19th-century cannon, peers out to sea. The bailiff (1729–88) was a sailor who fought with a Tropezien crew against Britain and Prussia during the Seven Years War. As much of an institution as the bailiff is portside cafe Sénéquier.
Duck beneath the archway, next to the tourist office, to uncover St-Tropez’s daily morning fish market, on place aux Herbes.
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Plage de Tahiti
A magnificent sandy beach.
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Chapelle du Couvent
Chapelle du Couvent, dates from 1757.
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Tour du Portalet
The Tour du Portalet was built in the 15th-century.
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Plage de la Moutte
Bathers can swim in the buff on Plage de la Moutte on Cap des Salins.
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Pointe du Capon
Pointe du Capon is a beautiful cape crisscrossed with walking trails.
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Lavoir Vasserot
Summer art exhibitions fill the 19th-century Lavoir Vasserot, the former communal washhouse.
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Chapelle de la Miséricorde
Chapelle de la Miséricorde was built in 1645 with a pretty bell tower and colourful tiled dome.
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Plage de l'Escalet
Bathers can swim in the buff on the secluded Plage de l'Escalet on the southern side of Cap Camarat.
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Citadelle de St-Tropez
Built in 1602 to defend the coast against Spain, the citadel dominates the hillside overlooking St-Tropez to the east. The views (and peacocks!) are fantastic. Its dungeons shelter a Musée Naval, dedicated to the town's maritime history and the Allied landings in August 1944.
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Plage de la Liberté
Bathers can swim in the buff on aptly named Plage de la Liberté, a nudist beach on Pampelonne's northern end.
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Plage des Salins
Plage des Salins is a long, wide sandy beach, 4.5km east of St Tropez at the foot of Cap des Salins. To get here, follow rte des Salins to its end.
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Pampelonne Beach
Welcome to the golden sand of France's most chic beach. Pampelonne stretches for 9km from Cap du Pinet to Cap Camarat, a rocky cape dominated by France's second-tallest lighthouse.
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Bailli de Suffren Statue
Here a cast from a 19th-century cannon peers out to sea. The bailiff (1729-88) was a sailor who fought with a Tropezien crew against Britain and Prussia during the Seven Years' War.
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Église de St-Tropez
Sweet-chiming Église de St-Tropez is a quintessential St-Trop landmark built in 1785 in Italian baroque style. Inside is the bust of St Torpes, honoured during Les Bravades des Espagnols.
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Chapelle Ste-Anne
Chapelle Ste-Anne was built in 1618. The marvellous collection of ex-votive paintings and centuries-old miniature boats inside can be viewed just once a year - on St Anne's feast day (26 July).
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Musée Naval
The Musée Naval is dedicated to the town's maritime history and the Allied landings in August 1944. It is located in a dungeon in the St-Tropez Citadel which overlooks St-Tropez to the east.
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Musée de l'Annonciade
In a gracefully converted 16th-century chapel, this small but famous art museum showcases an impressive collection of modern art infused with that legendary Côte d'Azur light. Pointillist Paul Signac bought a house in St-Tropez in 1892 and introduced others to the area. The museum's collection includes his St-Tropez, Le Quai (1899) and Vue de St-Tropez, Coucher de Soleil au Bois de Pins (1896), which hangs juxtaposed with a window-view of contemporary St-Tropez.
Vuillard, Bonnard and Maurice Denis (the self-named 'Nabis' group) have a room to themselves. Fauvist collections include Derain and Matisse, who spent the summer of 1904 here. Cubists George Braque and Picasso…
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Citadel
A 17th-century citadel dominates the hillside overlooking St-Tropez to the east. The views (and peacocks!) are great, and its dungeons shelter a Musée Naval, dedicated to the town's maritime history and the Allied landings in August 1944.
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Pampelonne Lighthouse
This rocky cape, Cap Camarat, is dominated by France's second-tallest lighthouse, operational since 1831, electrified in 1946 and automated from 1977. The hike up its 84 steps rewards with fabulous views of St-Tropez, this rich green peninsula and the Med.
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Château La Moutte
The Château La Moutte's unmarked entrance is on chemin de la Moutte. In summer musical concerts are held. The library here holds Émile Olivier's 17-volume L'Empire Libéral. Olivier served as first minister to Napoleon III until his exile in 1870. This used to be his home on Cap des Salins.
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La Maison des Papillons
Around 4500 butterflies collected by Dany Lartigue, son of Riviera photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), are pinned to the walls in La Maison des Papillons. Find the House of Butterflies in the former home of Madeleine 'Bibi' Messager, the first wife of Jacques Lartigue (he had three) who remained in St-Tropez after the couple split.
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Plage de Pampelonne
The golden sands of Plage de Tahiti, 4km southeast of St Tropez, morph into the 5km-long, celebrity-studded Plage de Pampelonne, which sports a line-up of exclusive beach restaurants and clubs in summer.
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