The origins of ST-TROPEZ are unremarkable: a little fishing village that grew up around a port founded by the Greeks of Marseille, which was destroyed by the Saracens in 739 and finally fortified in the late Middle Ages. Its sole distinction from the myriad other fishing villages along this coast was its inaccessibility. Stuck out on the southern shores of the Golfe de St-Tropez, away from the main coastal routes on a wide peninsula that never warranted real roads, St-Tropez could only easily be reached by boat. This held true as late as the 1880s, when the novelist Guy de Maupassant sailed his yacht into the port … more »
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St Tropez: The seaside resort town Saint Tropez is still very popular... more »
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St Tropez has long held the reputation of being the black sheep of the... more »
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Saint-Tropez is a commune of the Var dpartement in southern France, located... more »
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Though its beach is far from the best on the French Riviera, the village of St. Tropez has great... more »