St Tropez hotels collection

Saint Torpes arrived by sea: legend has it that his body, laid in a boat at Pisa with a cockerel and a dog, drifted all the way to this gulf. The pointus, wooden boats with lateen sails, still keep their place in the harbour, and the Ponche, the old fishermen's quarter, runs down to the water through lanes of ochre and pink façades. Above the roofs, the citadel keeps its six-sided tower among the pines. On its hill facing the gulf, the chapel of Sainte-Anne holds on its walls the ex-votos of sailors who came home.