Rocky, pine-covered Cap Morgiou plunges to meet the Med at the eponymous Calanque de Morgiou – a pretty little port bobbing with fishing boats and sheer rock faces spangled with thrill-seeking climbers. An evening spent at its one (seasonal) restaurant, Nautic Bar, is dreamy.
The hair-raisingly steep, narrow road (3.5km) is open to motorists weekdays only from mid-April to May, and it's closed from June to September (when a one-hour-distant car park is mandatory, although those with Nautic Bar reservations are allowed through). By public transport, take bus 22 from Marseilles’ Rond-Point du Prado metro to Les Baumettes stop, from where it is a 4km walk.
Thirty-seven meters below Morgiou's waters lies the entrance to the Grotte Cosquer, a miraculously preserved chamber daubed with 20,000-year old the Palaeolithic art.
