About Saint-Raphaël

Introduction

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Saint-Raphaël is a town in Provence at the Cotes d'Azur, between Cannes and St Tropez. This area has one of Europe's most pleasant climates and has for many years been attracting visitors.

Today Saint-Raphaël is very nice to visit. It is a beautiful town with kilometers of sandy beaches. In July and August you find many tourists in Saint-Raphaël, but it is not overwhelming. The rest of the year is very nice.

The nature

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Along the coast line of Saint-Raphaël you find the terrific red Esterel Mountains. Many small sand beaches is hiding between the cliffs(the "calanques").

The City

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Saint-Raphaël forms with Frejus a twin city with more than 70.000 inhabitants. It has life all around the year and tourism does not dominate. You'll recognize St. Raphaël on it's long promenade with marina, beaches og lots of fish restaurants, whith a relaxed atmosphere. In the countryside plenty magnifiscent golf courses and along the cost all kind of water sport is practised.

Distances

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Saint-Raphaël is situated 30 km west of Cannes and 60 km from Nice:

Many people from Europe drive in the own car for the vacation.
Here are some distances:

Route	Distance
Hamburg - Frankfurt	495 km
Frankfurt - Mulhouse	276 km
Mulhouse - Lyon	420 km
Lyon - Saint-Raphaël	404 km

A recommendation

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If you want to visit both Provence and the Mediterranean, Saint-Raphaël is a good place to start. The people are pleasant and relaxed, they are used to foreign visitors from ancient times.

The climate is perfect. Spring starts in February and in the winter the temperature seldom goes below 10 centigrade in the day. All together you have fine weather most of the time, hence people call the area Europe's California. Around July 15th the French vacation starts, and for the next six weeks the coast is pretty crowded.

As a visitor you find hotels (with prices starting from 120 FF per night for two persons) and plenty of camping sites and other resorts. it is to be recommended!

Links

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France has not as advanced as far with the net as one could expect, still there is a number of homepages relative to Saint-Raphaël:

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