toulon Toulon, Southern France walking tour, 4k Cinematic.

31 déc. 2022  #4k #france #cinematic
Toulon is a historic French city on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 miles southeast of Marseilles. It is the most important naval base in France, and is home to the French Mediterranean fleet.  It is also a ferry port with services to Corsica and to Sardinia.
   The anchorage of Toulon is one of the best protected natural harbours on the Mediterranean.
    Toulon has been a port city since Roman times. The Romans called the settlement Telo Martius, a name that with time turned into the modern name Toulon.
  Toulon became a naval port at the end of the 15th  century shortly after the death of King René of Provence, when Provence became part of France.  From then on, it played a capital role in French naval campaigns in the Mediterranean . As an important military base, the city had its fortifications rebuilt and strengthened by Vauban in  the seventeenth century.
  For two years during the Napoleonic wars, the port of Toulon was blockaded by Nelson and a British fleet. During the second world war, the French Mediterranean fleet was scuttled in the anchorage of Toulon, to prevent it from falling into German hands; later the the naval area and much of the city nearby was subjected to intense Allied bombardment.
   Today,  other than for activities relating to the naval dockyards, Toulon is no longer an industrial city; as capital of the Var department, which encompasses a good part of the French Riviera, it is an administrative centre, with a university set up in the 1970s.
   The Toulon suburbs of Six Fours les Plages and Saint Mandrier, both accessible by city buses, have some attractive coastline and small beaches. The nearest beaches to the centre of Toulon are located a mile south of the city centre, at Le Mourillon, and can also be reached by bus.

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