7/05/2009

Holidays guided tour - Saint Tropez France, 3 different ways to enjoy it

Saint-Tropez, France: holidays guided tour: three differnt ways to approach the town
Intro on Holidays guided tour - Saint Tropez France, the opencast vip party and more

Every year 5 millions tourists head to Saint Tropez a true pearl on the Cote d'Azure, France. Turists are attired there just because that many music and movie stars have elected that town as the most trendy place all over the world. But Saint Tropez is not all about vips and Vip Watching, it has many attractions : I'm trying to get the most out of it building for you 3 different ways to enjoy your holidays.
(Click here or on the map if you want to locate the places on the town)


Golden path - VIP TOUR.
This is probably the main goal that a one day turist has on mind. Sharing the same ballroom with Paris Hilton could have its thrill.

(main map)

1 - L'Escale Joseph: A dinner feet on sand. Jacques Chirac, Jean Paul Gautier and Bruce Willis among its customer

2 - The Port: 800 boats. Cost per day of a 20 mt. boat on the old port 270 euros, 125 on the new one. 30mt. 500/230 euros. 40 mt. 780/360 euros. 50mt 1280/514 euros. 60mt. 1500 euros per day.

3 - Vip Room: usual guest star Paris Hilton.

4- Place aux Herbes:
the market, go there if you want catch the boat people shopping fish and vegetables for their lunch onboard.

5 - Les Caves du Roi: so renowned that once Kathy Holmes and Tom Cruise weren't able to get in because of the overcrowded vip area

6 - Papagayo:
Corti is waiting for you with two bars, a big dancefloor, a VIP room booked for international Jet SetSaint-Tropez Pampelonne Beach 3 miles of vips

(Pampelonne map, aside)

13 - Tahiti: Known more for its restaurant than the beach, it takes its name from a movie whose scenes are still there.
14- Le Voile Rouge: both you've arrived on big yacht, there's a pier, and on board of a helicopter, there's also that convenience, you'll have to pay cash. Sly has appreciated it a lot.
15 - Club55
: a lot of time ago there was a beautiful girl (Brigitte Bardot) and a good director (Roger Vadim) they made the fortune of this place. It must be that: nothing has changed from then.
16 - Nikki Beach:
it's not easy to explain



Silver path- ARTISTIC TOUR
Not so edonistic like the golden path, it has been thought for people looking for smooth and refined sensations, relax, and a scenic site: the perfume of a coffee at sunrise, the bliss to be in the place where Picasso painted the "Odalisque"

(on the main map)

7 - Senequier: cafe au lait and croissants at sunrise and on the first raw on the port
8 - Hotel Sube:
coffee house on the first floor and a view on the port
9 - Le Gorille: give a chance to their Tartare

typical Tropezienne sandals10 - Rondini:
a master shoemaker . Here you can find the Tropezienne sandals
Mick and Bianca during the wedding in 1971
11 - Cafe des Arts:
vegetables and fruit of Provence on Places des Lices (tuesday and saturday), a cafe where men play cards, the favourite of Alain Delon, the place where, May 12 1971, Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez Morena had their wedding party.
12 - La Ponche :
the fishermen neighbourhood. Pablo Picasso, housed at the poet Paul Eluard's house drew the fomous L'Odalisque here.

Bronze path- Fanatic TOUR
Roger Vadim is buried in the Maritime cemetary and Brigitte Bardot his a well known resident. Existentialists elected the town as their Summer retreat and a master Pointillist like Paul Signac bought there a house that he named La Hune. There's enough stuff to make any manic tourist happy.

13 - Maritime Cemetery:
In front of the sea. The graves of Roger Vadim and Edd Barkley are only two of the many celebrities to visit.
14 - La Citadel:
the Musée de la Marine et de l'Histoire Locale (Museum of Shipping and Local History), good the reproduction of a Greek galley. From the battlements there is a good view of the Gulf of St-Tropez and the Massif des Maures.
15 -Musée de l'Annonciade: permanent exhibition of artists like Signac, Derain, van Dongen, Rouault, Braque, Bonnard, Matisse and Maillol.

La Madrague:
Brigitte Bardot moved from here leaving her properties to the Brigitte Bardot Fundation, a society for the defence of animals, still you could hear the echLa Madrague oes of the 70's faboulous parties.

Grande Bravade
: The event honors Saint Tropes, and includes a parade in which his statue is carried through the streets. (mid May).

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