Porquerolles is largest of the three Gold islands of the gulf of Hyères. Long of 7km and broad of 3km, it is the most inhabited island and most visited. It is located on the same parallel that the Corsica Cape, it thus enjoys the same climatic privileges: an almost daily sunning (+ 300 days of sun per annum), rather soft winters (seldom below 0°) and of the hot summers délicieusement raffraîchis by the sea air.
A famous vineyard…
The village was creates since 1820, the headlight in 1837 and the church in 1850. After having passed between the hands of several successive owners, the island was bought in 1912 per Mr. Fournier and was offered, appears it, in wedding present to his wife. Great agricultural work was then undertaken and 200 hectares of vineyards gave rise to a wine of great fame which was one of the first to being classified "wines of the Coasts of Provence".
The Argent Beach
Today the three wine fields of Porquerolles produce excellent wine always such a famous. They joined the National Botanical Academy of Porquerolles to protect the natural inheritance from the island.
A preserved nature…
Repurchased to the 4/5 by the State in 1971, Porquerolles is a lovingly protected island that no anarchistic real program will be able to disfigure. The style and the architecture of the houses are integrated here harmoniously into the beauty of the site. Attached to the National park of Port-Cros (without having still the official statute of it), Porquerolles protects, cultivates, replants and studies the Méditerranéennes cultures thanks to its Botanical Academy and to the National park of Cros Port. Their plantations will not be able to escape to you.
A village full with charm…
The village
As of your arrival with the port, you will be approached by the charm concerning the island: behind the moored boats with quay, the first dwellings appear surrounded by a generous vegetation. After having exceeded the port, (where you will have been able to rent your bicycle and to request a plan of the island from the tourist bureau) you will arrive at the village with its great place and its beautiful church in the content, broadside of some trade and pleasant shaded coffee terraces and restaurants.
Landscapes sublimes…
To leave to discovered the island, you will have the choice between several courses and several wonders…
To north, three superb beaches offer fine sands, soft inclined shores and sea of an exceptional purity.
To the south, the cliffs fall à.pic in the sea, it is a escarpé relief where creeks, points, throats, courses and small mounts follow one another. You will be able to admire this decoration wild and imposing since the headlight, the sight extends on 360° on the island and the sea… is to be cut you the breath.
At the interior of the grounds, extend from the mosaics from vines, olive-trees, of fruit trees with, that and there, some lemon trees, orange trees or mandarin trees. The tracks are bordered of pines, eucalyptus and the multiple plantations of the Botanical Academy. The majority of the tracks are shaded and the "blows of heat save to you thus". In spring the flowering of the maquis with its cistuses, myrtles and heathers transforms the island into an immense bunch of flowers scented. The pine forest slack with the sun its ranges of green which will mix with the autumn with the white flowers and the red fruits of the cane-apple bushes.
The summer, the cicadas join these sumptuous landscapes to recall you that you are well in Provence and not in a paradisiac island with the other end of the world…
Historical vestiges to visit:
Strong Ste Agathe XIV° sheltering an exposure
of underwater archaeology, (from June to September).
Church (1850) and its way of cross. The headlight (1837).
Leisures:
Pedestrian excursions and VTT.
Deep-sea diving. Veil. Board with veil.
Hiring of boats. Fish. Night Club (in season)
Plantations of the National Botanical Academy.
Caution: camp-site, bivouac and fires are prohibited
