Porquerolles information

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The Ile de Porquerolles is the largest island of the archipelago of Hyères (or Îles d'Hyères Îles d'or). It lies off the French Mediterranean coast in the Cote d'Azur, near Toulon. Porquerolles is available from the Giens Peninsula and other nearby ports in just a few minutes by boat. The island has a size of 1254 hectares and is located on the same latitude as Cap Corse. This results in a particularly southern climate. The island is about 7.5 kilometers long and about 3 km wide. The coast is about 30 km long. The highest peak measuring 142 meters above sea level. On the north side of the island is a small harbor and Inselort (about 350 inhabitants) with restaurants and shops. The church dates from the years 1849-1851. Also on the north side of the island has some beautiful sandy beaches: the Plage d'Argent in the West, the Plage de la Courtade on the east side of the village and the Plage de Notre-Dame in the east the island. The south coast is not really suitable for swimming because the shore drops steeply. At the southern tip, the Cap d'Arme, there is an old lighthouse, which can also be mounted. Colonized the island was first beginning of the 19th Century by former soldiers of Napoleon. In the 20th Century until the late 1930s, the island then belonged to the Belgian engineer Jean-Francois-Joseph Fournier, who reigned like a prince. In 1971 Madame Pompidou persuaded her husband, French president Georges Pompidou, the island on behalf of the State purchase. She was placed under the protection of the Parc National de Port-Cros and the State Institute for Marine Botany (Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen de Porquerolles). The island has therefore especially in the summer, despite the onslaught of tourist flows to them daily (on each of the island residents are kept up to 30 mainland visitors) to their original charm. (...)

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