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La Croix Valmer
A LYON’S CLUB OR A BEAUJOLAIS COLONY
There is no port here but there is an anchorage which is sheltered from the north and north-western winds in front of the Gigaro beach. It is particularly accessible during calm days but should never be attempted when the Marin wind is blowing.
The “La Croix” vill
age, which was recently renamed “La Croix Valmer”, does not owe its prosperity to the Greeks, or the Romans or the Ligurians. At the turn of the 20th century investors from Lyons chose this site as an ideal setting to develop a stylish resort where the middle class from the silk city could come and keep warm and dry during the winter. Villas were constructed and the luxurious hotels piled up rooms with a view over the bay and the îles d’Or (the Golden Islands): Hôtel d’Angleterre, Hôtel des Missions Africaines, Grand Hôtel… there is even a Hotel Avenue! There would also be the Sylvabelle sanatorium which healed using the “good air”.
But the very same people from Lyons also healed through good “wine-drinking”. Boosted by their experience in the Rhone and Beaujolais vineyards, they created their own wine-growing estate – La Société Lyonnaise du Domaine de la Croix de Cavalaire. Pray my lungs never know the hell I am putting my liver through…
