Port Cros
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| Waters | Mediterranean Sea | |
| Archipelago | Îles d'Hyères | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 0 ′ N , 6 ° 24 ′ E | |
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Port-Cros ( French Île de Port-Cros ) is one of the three main islands of the Mediterranean island group Îles d'Hyères (German: "Hyèrische Islands"). The islands belong to France and are only a few kilometers off the coast of southern France ( Côte d'Azur ). The entire island is part of the Port-Cros National Park .
history
When the beauty and nature of the island was threatened by intensive hotel development at the beginning of the 1920s, the owner family transferred the island to the French state on the condition that a national park be created here and that it be maintained for all time.
Artists like Paul Valéry and André Gide once spent their summer retreat here . Today the former manor house - Maison d'Hélène, now Manoir de Port-Cros - is one of the few hotels on the island. The former French President François Mitterrand came to this island again and again - once with the then incumbent Chancellor Helmut Kohl .
Port-Cros National Park
The harbor and the former fortress of Port-Cros
The beach “Plage de la Palud” and Rascas rocks
Rascas rocks
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hotel-lemanoirportcros.com/
- ↑ The Beloved in the Mediterranean. In: Spiegel Online. August 1, 2012, accessed December 4, 2014 .