Saint-mandrier-sur-mer

This circuit alternates portions in balcony with many pines suspended on the top of the shore, the points of view privileged on the rock of the Two Brothers and the Cape Sicié, and of the routes in forest. It will lead you point of Marégau, astonishing geological landscape with its ochre sandstone escarpments, its view-points, a surface of picnic… jusqu' with the beaches of Coudoulière and Cavalas.

This path profits from some built and natural patrimonial elements, of which the fort of Saint-Elme, extremely of the Large Beam, the fort of Coudoulière and the beautiful pine forest Saint-Asile.

1 the path begins at the end of the small wearing of Saint-Elme, at the end of the nautical base " Méduse".
2 You will borrow staircases on the right of a blockhouse, then you will walk on on an exceptional course of rollers ochres polished by the sea. Caution! When the mistral blows, the sea comes to beat the rocks and this section becomes slipping. It is strongly recommended of equipping with shoes of excursion. This course escarpés' stretch on 300 m and offers to you reflections between the red of the sandstones and the black of volcanic repercussions. Perhaps you will see beautiful sea anemones and coloured algae.

3 Beyond you will borrow staircases on your left. You will arrive known R a surface of picnic made up of beautiful umbrella pines before reaching the beach of Saint-Asile.

4 Skirt the beach and follow the direction " Extremely of the renardière, beach of Coudoulière". You will walk on then among the sisal plants and the salsepareille. The American sisal plant is particularly present on this path.

5 You will go down in a split from rollers then you will take again staircases to join the avenue of Languedoc.
6 at the end of this avenue you will take a dead end on your line and you will arrive at a barrier that you will circumvent. After a a little hard rise you will arrive at the point of Marégau. A small pause to admire the landscape thanks to a table of the orientation impose. A full panorama of the rocks of the Two Brothers while passing by the course Sicié and the islands of Hyères is revealed.

7 Chemin making you will continue to arrive on a road which you will cross. Take on your line. You will pass in front of the fort of the Large Beam, going back to 1882 to arrive on a slope where the various species of the scrubland are found. Develop then the telegraphic one, the arborescent heather, all the species of cistuses, the cane-apple bush, the cade and chèvrefeuille.

8 You will reach a barrier, circumvent. You will leave a center of shooting on your line. You will borrow a vegetable raidillon. On the left you will be able to see the pier carrying out jusqu' with the Royal Tower, some military ships, and the wearing of Saint-Mandrier, " the Saint-Georges" Hollow.

9 maritime pines raise then above vertiginous cliffs, the prickly peartrees recover the slopes which descend towards the sea. The passage is narrow and sloping, take care not too to approach you cliffs. You will walk on in overhang before d' to reach the small beach of Coudoulière.

10 do not miss the turning by the fort of Coudoulière (external visit only) dissimulated behind a small hill above the shore. This work was intended to cover two of small which borders the peninsula. In summer, do not miss the festival of professional theatre which occurs in terrace. Terrace of the fort you will appreciate the splendid points of view on the broad one and the rocks of the Two Brothers.

11 At the end of the beach of Coudoulière, pebble beach (coudoulets into of Provence) which accomodates a rescue station at the beautiful season, to take again the path which borders the shore after having to borrow staircases to arrive at the beach of Cavalas.

The return can to carry out by the same route or l' interior. Beach of Cavalas you will be able is: 

• To join the port of the village and to take the maritime shuttle towards Toulon,
• If you have time you will be able to continue towards the Franco-italien cemetery and to admire the pyramid Latouche Treville, then to join the port of the village,
• To turn over towards the Pine Roland by taking the footpath which crosses the forest (Ardissone way) and to follow the tracks arranged for a sporting crapa.

 Between the maritime hospital and the Cross of the Signals, they built the national cemetery where deaths of the First World War were buried. The Franco-Italian cemetery until 1958, you could read the names of the soldiers of various countries: Greeks, Serb, Russian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Indochinese having fought to defend France at the time of the war of 14-18.

In 1958, the ministry for the War veterans dealt with the cemetery and decided, in agreement with the Italian government, they joined together the bodies of all the dead soldiers during the last war, not claimed by the families. Thus nearly 900 bodies were collected and deposited in the caveaux individual ones in part of the cemetery exclusively reserved to the soldiers and to sailors of the peninsula. Today, the Franco-Italian cemetery made the admiration of the many visitors who come there to collect.

• The admiral Latouche-Treville

At the entry of the cemetery, on a hillock, raising a 7,25 m height pyramid which contains the mortal remains of the admiral Latouche-Treville considered as the terror of the English the monument of l' admiral Latouche-Tréville our hereditary enemies. Deceased on August 17, 1804, the death of this famous sailor was held secret, so she was ignored of Nelson, like her burial in the cemetery of Toulon.

This is six years later that they built with his memory a mausoleum in the shape of pyramid, near the Semaphore of the Cross of the Signals. This place was selected because this highly skilled combatant would have expressed the desire to be buried of mani era to see arriving English of the four cardinal points.

On October 14, 1902, the military authority decided the displacement of this mausoleum. Dislocked stone by stone, the monument was rebuilt in the military cemetery of the hospital of Saint-Mandrier. The transfer of the body was made on April 29, 1903 and given place to a manifestation of the memory which proceeded out of Pr gasoline of the civil authorities and military.

Saint Mandrier has 4 sand beaches end (the beach of the old woman, the beach of Touring, the beach of the gun and the beach of Sainte-Asile) and two pebble beaches (the beach of the coudoulière and the beach of Cavalas, known under the name of " Grave" by the mandréens).

Differently directed, they allow swimming some of them is the prevailing wind.

Beaches of Coudoulière, Touring, and Sainte-Asile, profit from the blue house and are supervised from July 1 to August 31 by the firemen rescuers.

With the exception of the beach of Cavalas, all the beaches are equipped with showers the fresh water allowing to rinse itself after its day of beach.

More wild, the beach of Cavalas, is equipped by a terminal of urgency call.

The beaches of Touring and Sainte Asile are equipped with armchairs to facilitate the accesses of handicapped to the sea.

 The visit of the Roads is the only means to approach the arsenal and to admire the buildings of the National marine. and why not the nuclear carry-plane Charles-of-Gaulle. All year the boatmen of the port propose the visit with accompanying notes of the most beautiful roads of Europe. You go along the military arsenal and buildings of the National marine, the marine cemetery, last damping of the ships at the end of the road, the port of the Seyne-sur-Mer and old shipyards, the balneal cornice of Tamaris, the bay of the Lazaret and its mussel beds, Sablettes, the presqu' island of St Mandrier, the long dam which closes the roads in the east of the fortifications (Eyguillette, Balaguier, St Louis, Lamalgue, Tour Royal, Cape Brun). Roads of Toulon - more beautiful roads of EuropeToulon, the maritime one, is blottie at the bottom of the most beautiful roads of Europe, surrounded by high crowned wooded hills of forts. Here sea and mountain are supplemented harmoniously. Of course Toulon, powerful military port, saw since centuries at the rhythm of the National marine, but its roads are not limited to the arsenal. Its east coast bordered of shaded deep splits of umbrella pines, creeks to water turquoises, great sand beaches fair and picturesque small fishing ports. It includes Toulon, anything of such as to approach by the sea! To supplement this visit, do not fail especially the National museum of the Navy which will make you sail through four hundred years d' maritime history! Then with the boarding and good wind in Toulon!