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Le Nouveau port
Un bassin de près de cinq hectares En 1963, face au développement croissant de la plaisance, le maire Louis Fabre, ancien capitaine au long cours, fait voter par son conseil municipal l’agrandissement du port et la construction d’un nouveau bassin. Son financement est estimé à 8 millions de francs. Deux ans plus tard, sous la municipalité de Jean Lescudier, les travaux commencent. Ils dureront quatre ans. Les terre-pleins en arrière des anciens chantiers sont aménagés en quai. Depuis le rivage, est bâti un môle de 342 m comprenant un quai, une chaussée et un mur abri de 4,15 m de haut au bout duquel est installé un phare vert. A l’intérieur de ce bassin de près de cinq hectares, plusieurs appontements sont réalisés portant ainsi la longueur des quais à près de 1539 m avec une capacité à recevoir des unités de 21 m. En 2009, le nouveau port est baptisé. Il s’appelle désormais “ bassin Jean Lescudier ”. A la même époque que la construction du Nouveau port, le môle Jean Réveille est allongé sur près de 212 m. Son extrémité est courbée en direction du Sud-ouest avec un rayon de 58 m. Un feu “provisoire” sur croisillon de bois y est installé. Il sera remplacé en 1999 par un feu maçonné, réplique du feu du XIXe siècle. En 2009, le nouveau port est baptisé. Il s’appellera “Jean Lescudier”, du nom du maire qui fit réaliser ces travaux.
Nouveau port en construction The Nouveau Port under construction
ever wider quays served to make the harbour the very heart of town. It is where the locals socialise and meet people passing through: visiting sailors, tourists who cannot come to SaintTropez without seeing the harbour, and locals working or coming here to have fun in their free time.
and lasted four years. The areas behind the old boatyards were made into a quay. From the shore, a 342 m jetty including a wharf, causeway and 4.15 m high wall was built, at the end of which was installed a green light. Inside this nearly fivehectare basin several landing stages were created bringing the total length of the wharf to nearly 1539 m with capacity to take vessels of 21 m. In 2009, the Nouveau Port was christened. From now on it would be called the “Jean Lescudier” basin.
A legend as famous as the Statue of Liberty The old harbour is a wonderful place to be. “Today one can walk on this pretty quay,” writes the learned Darluc in 1783, “without fear of storms and angry waves.” In 1832, Eugène Sue in his novel “La Salamandre” [The Salamander] was more nostalgic: “Peaceful and old port of Saint-Tropez, homeland of a brave admiral, all that remains of your former glory are two towers, reddened by the burning sun, cracked and ruined, wreathed in ivy and garlands of blue convolvulus flowers…” More recently, a tourist guide stated: “All over the world, this commercial and fishing port, for which nothing had prepared it for its new vocation as the jet-set capital, has become a legend as famous as the Statue of Liberty – or the pyramids of Giza.”
In the same period as the construction of the New Port, the Jean Réveille jetty was extended by nearly 212 m, the end curving round in a south-west direction with a radius of 58 m. A “temporary” light on a wooden crosspiece was installed there. It was to be replaced in 1999 by a more solid structure, a replica of the 19th century light. In 2009, the new harbour was named “Jean Lescudier” after the mayor who pushed this project through.
Quai Gabriel Péri Formerly Quai Marron, then Quai Saint-Raphaël, then Quai du Sud!
Le Nouveau Port
Before the 18th century, houses along this part of the harbour had their foundations very close to the water. From the 18th century, they built a quay then a harbour wall which served as a landing stage and a “palisade for the port”. However the quay did not take up the entire space. A section remained untouched and was used to maintain small boats; this was the Annonciade slipway, a beach which disappeared in 1842 as the boatyards encroached. On 15 August 1944 during the Provence landings, this quay
A basin of nearly five hectares In 1963, faced with the increasing popularity of pleasure boats, the Mayor Louis Fabre, a former Master Mariner, and his council voted in favour of expanding the harbour by building a new basin. The budget was estimated at 8 million francs. Two years later, under Jean Lescudier’s town council, work began
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