St. Raphael, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A large resort and now one of the richest towns on the Côte, ST-RAPHAËL became fashionable at the turn of the twentieth century. Its seafront Belle Époque mansions and hotels, flattened by bombardments in World War II, have mostly been rebuilt, while the old town beyond place Carnot on the other side of the railway line has suffered years of neglect. On rue des Templiers a crumbling fortified Romanesque church, the Église St-Pierre , has fragments of the Roman aqueduct that brought water from Fréjus in its courtyard along with a local history and underwater archeology museum (daily: … more »