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Moorea Beach, the Tahiti-Beach, the Club 55, the Nikki Beach, Les Jumeaux and La voile Rouge.
The best beach in the area is 4.5km (3 miles) out of town at the Plage de Tahiti. This sandy beach boasts plenty of bars, cafés and a range of watersports and is popular with everyone from jet set wannabes through to families.
Naturists prefer the string of beaches to the west of St Tropez where clothes are very much optional. Wherever you choose to soak up the sun’s rays you will be able to find operators offering everything from banana boat rides to waterskiing and wakeboarding.
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St. Tropez the best known name on the “Côte d’Azur” .
If Eze, Cap d’Antibes, Villefranche, Beaulieu, Cannes and others bring out the superlatives, then why is St. Tropez the best known name on the “Côte d’Azur”? St. Tropez is more and more glamorous than ever: The European Summer Must – holidays from the best ~ French, fancy and full of life.
First sensual impressions: orange, ocre & brown, all shades of blue, a fresh breeze, smells of flowers, a wide horizon, a glittering bay,and cheerful faces.
To be honest, I was expecting neon. A lot of Neon. I had assumed that because St Tropez has for so long been the playground of princesses, pop stars, gold diggers and sugar daddies that it would, by now, look inherently tacky. But I’d got it wrong. The wooded, winding, famously narrow road to Saint Tropez (they say that it hasn’t been widened to discourage riff-raff from turning up) eventually gives way, not to some glittering party strip, but to a beautiful tiny Provencal village, teetering on the edge of the Cote d’Azur, its buildings coloured like the inside of sea shells.
Arts and Stars
In 1956, a teenaged Bardot arrived with her lover (and later husband) French director Roger Vadim to film the ground-breaking And God Created Woman.
If God created woman, Bardot and her sex kitten persona could be said to have created St. Tropez – at least insofar as its reputation as the Riviera’s jet-set playground of choice is concerned.
Saint-Tropez, the stars’ and artists’ village
A bright Provencal village splendidly preserved an exceptional ambiance and enchanting nights. When you arrive here, it’s love on first sight.
Beyond The Beach
The waterfront around the Old Port is a fun place to hang out day and night with people watching the main activity amongst holidaymakers. Back from the sea, Place des Lices tempts with its relaxed bars. Take a seat at one of the square’s benches and watch old men playing petanque in a scene that has not changed for centuries or soak up the dramatic views from the 17th-century citadel.
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
The fleet that gathers in St Tropez each autumn comes as much for the competition as to soak up the atmosphere that over a hundred classic boats can easily provide.
St-Tropez Regatta
The fleet that gathers in St Tropez each autumn comes as much for the competition as to soak up the atmosphere that over a hundred classic boats can easily provide. While some of the yachts and sailors are experiencing Les Voiles for the first time, many have raced here before and have been frequent participants over the past three decades of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez (since 1999) or La Nioulargue before that.
It’s equally inspiring, whether you experience the fleet on the water – the Golfe de Saint Tropez chockablock with gaff schooners, Marconi cutters, sloops, ketches, and yawls for the race start – or ashore, where up to fifty yachts moor Med-style, stern-to the quay in the old port. At night, the yachts are lined up varnished caprail to caprail, with spreader and deck lights illuminating the wooden spars that tower above — presenting an enchanting setting for those strolling the old port, and spilling out of the popular Hotel Sube’s and other adjoining restaurants and bars.
One need not be a yachting historian, but just have an appreciative eye for beauty and design to notice the myriad details on the yachts on the quay: the exquisite and highly polished bronze hardware, efficient ropework, and perfect brightwork.
One of the most revered designers, whose boats grace St Tropez, is the Scotsman William Fife III (1857 – 1944), the third generation of a boatbuilding family. His first successful design was the Dragon class in the late 1800s, and by the turn of the century he had already designed the first of two America’s Cup challengers – Shamrock I & II – for the tea magnate, Sir Thomas Lipton. In the early 1900s, he turned his impeccable eye to metre boats, notably the 15m and 19m classes.
Some Fife-designed yachts exist today though some sort of divine serendipity – certainly that played a part in the 115-year old Nan of Fife’s survival.
The boat sails with a base crew of four, but for racing the numbers grow to 20 or so, many of them friends. For Axel Neils and his family, St Tropez is a special place. He said, “We’ve been coming here for generations, it’s a family place for us. There are a lot of friends who we’ve known for decades and we’re very happy to invite them on the boat for a race at Les Voiles. We’re also sporting the colours of La Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, so theoretically It’s our home base.”
“It’s fantastic to se these boats racing together, they are the four left in the world out of the series of 20. As they were named in Monaco, it is the “belle classe” – they really were the noble racing boats, it’s fantastic to see them together again.”
The Rolex Trophy is a competition within the Tradition division for all boats over 16 metres on deck. The winning boat receives the Rolex Trophy and a Rolex
timepiece. First awarded in 2006, this year over 50 boats are eligible for the Trophy. The winner from 2010, Yves-Marie Morault on the 12 metre Ikra, is back to defend.
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez is the traditional Club 55 Cup, a match race this year between Mariquita and Altair with a start at noon. Following that is the Centenary Trophy for yachts over 100 years old. Finally are the other Challenge Day match races set up between yachts, the list to be finalised tomorrow.
Racing continues for both Traditional and Modern classes. First warning signal is 1100 for the Moderns, 1200 for Traditional.
Author: Susan Maffei-Plowden
French Riviera Legendary St.Trop
Synonymous with luxury, glamour and celebrity.
See the world with those you love
An almost legendary location at the heart of the French Riviera that has become so embedded in popular culture as to be synonymous with luxury, glamour and celebrity. The fame of St Tropez is not just due to the celebrities, artists and actors that have resided in St Tropez, but the fusion of ancient charm, modern facilities and beautiful natural sea and landscapes that still exists to the present day.
Even the most casual observer will recall iconic images of Hollywood greats walking the sun-drenched boulevards, of open-topped sports cars touring the hillside roads.
Europe’s most glamorous
For five decades St Tropez has maintained its status as one of Europe’s most glamorous, sultry and sexy resorts.
Today’s jet set escape is a far cry from the sleepy Provençal fishing village that idled by the Mediterranean here until the 1950s when the massive success of Brigitte Bardot’s made St Tropez a household name around Europe. From the moment you see the array of millionaire yachts bobbing against the backdrop of the glittering Mediterranean along the waterfront you know that this is somewhere special, though behind the chic cafés, suave restaurants and buzzing clubs are swathes of unspoilt countryside.
