Welcome in LA CIOTAT

La Ciotat profits from an exceptional natural framework : A famous gulf, highest maritime cliffs of Europe, long sand beaches, creeks of Mugel and Figuerolles, the Green Island, the whole with a sunning record making of Ciotat a health resort of the four seasons. Antoine Lumière comes to settle in La Ciotat in 1891, allured by the softness of living of this small seaside resort. La Ciotat, known from antiquity, always had an activity turned towards the sea by sheltering important shipyards in particular. Its old port keeps the charm of the small fishing ports. Beyond the new marina, one of most important between Marseille and Toulon, the beaches of bay make station a pleasant vacation resort.

While going towards Cassis, the impressive crest road (crètes), long of 17 kilometers deserves one strolls for its splendid points of view top of the Cape Canaille. To 416 m of altitude, it is the climax of the cliffs of Soubeyran, which overhang the littoral between Ciotat and Cassis. View-points are arranged. Many natural curiosities all with the length of this road in particular the natural bridge close to the Large Head.

Crest Road

Further, with a few tens kilometers per motorway, one reaches in little time Marseille, Toulon or Aix-en-Provence.

Tourist sites and routes

Natural reserve of Mugel : The richness and the variety of the vegetation of the place are the consequence of a remarkable microclimate. A permanent center for initiation with the environment, the blue workshop of the Eagle cape, is installed within the framework of cliffs and makes it possible all to approach the beauties of the ciotat littoral and sea-beds which surround it. Handle of Mugel to the russet-red rollers (reddish conglomerate). The rock, near to the concrete by its composition but to an ochre color sharp, consists of an agglomerate of round rollers, bound between them by sand.

Green Island Sepulchral cave of Terrevaine: True marine cemetery in bay. Beaches of fine sand and rollers. Covered hills of Alep pines.

Creek of Figuerolles

Cultural circuits Vestiges of the old fortifications : Bérouard and Saint-Antoine Forts, carries 1628. Ruins of Saint-Pierre fort (Green Island). Palace of the Lumière Brothers (who made several films there) and large living room, The Lumière Alley. Old villas of the Lumière Brothers in Franklin-Roosevelt Avenue. Old Eden-Concert. District of the Station: Site of the turning of first film in the world "Entered of the train in station of La Ciotat" in 1895 by the Lumière brothers. Commemorative plate in the station. Houses of XVIIème century in Fougasse and Abeille streets. The city hall : XIXème century Of Renaissance style, surmounted of a bell-tower : on the frontage, inscription commemorative of the stopover of Lamartine to La Ciotat. Octagonal tower Vestige of the old Ursulines convent. Hospice of the XVIIIème century. Church "Notre Dame de l'Assomption" of the XVIIème Century. Vault of Penitent White XVIIème century. Old vault of Penitent Blue the 1598 and its esplanade. Vaults Saint-Joseph, St Jean, of the "Abeille". Ciotadin museum: Archaeology and local ethnography. Sport Excursion, VTT, Diving, Water skiing, Veil, Board with veil, Kayak, Drive out under navy.

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