The peninsula of Saint-Tropez is part of the Massif des Maures, along with the peninsula of Giens and the islands offshore of Hyères ; Porquerolles, Port-Cros, and île du Levant.

It also contains the seaside resorts of Cap-d ' Ail, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Cannes, Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus, Sainte Maxime and Saint-Tropez, It is also home to a high-tech / science park or technopole at Sophia-Antipolis ( north of Antibes ) and a research and technology center at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

The party is also strong in every election in very wealthy suburban or coastal ( and, in some cases, urban ) areas such as Neuilly-sur-Seine ( 72. 6 % for Sarkozy in the first round ), Saint-Tropez ( 54. 79 %), Cannes ( 48. 19 %) or Marcq-en-Barœul ( 47. 35 %).

The third, shown at the Annonciade museum at Saint-Tropez, is called “ The Port of Marseilles in fog ”; the basilica emerges from a misty landscape where the purification of form is extended.

Saint-Tropez (; Sant Tropetz in Occitan ) is a town, 104 km ( 65 mi ) to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur region of southeastern France.

It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez.

The inhabitants of Saint-Tropez are called Tropéziens (), and the town is familiarly called " St-Trop " ().

The Japanese samurai, Hasekura Tsunenaga, and his retainers, en route to Rome, visited Saint-Tropez in September 1615, in what is believed to be the earliest instance of contact between the French and the Japanese.

* 1615: Saint-Tropez welcomes some time during the expedition Tsunenaga Hasekura, which went to Rome but is forced to stop due to bad weather.

The main economic resource of Saint-Tropez is tourism.

Each year, at the end of September, a regatta is held in the bay of Saint-Tropez ( Les Voiles de St. Tropez ).

Topless sunbathing is now a usual way of sunbathing for both men and women, from Pampelonne beaches to yachts in centre of Saint-Tropez port.

On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez (" Let's calm down and drink fresh in Saint-Tropez ") ( 1987 ) is the last movie made by French film-maker Max Pécas.

It is also the last one of his " Saint-Tropez " trilogy.

Tropezien beaches are located along the coast in the Baie de Pampelonne, also known by the residents as Grania ( pronounced granny-ay ), which lies south of Saint-Tropez and east of Ramatuelle.

France-Japan relations started under Louis XIII in 1615 when Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by Date Masamune, landed at Saint-Tropez for a few days.

Sitges has been referred to as the Saint-Tropez of Spain, with property prices approaching those of the most expensive European cities, the main reason for this being the setting by the sea and the surrounding Parc Natural del Garraf.

A record combination of distance and speed of 207 km in 5h 30m was set by Raphaël Salles, Marc Blanc and Sylvain Maurain on July 24, 2007, between Saint-Tropez and Calvi, beating Manu Bertin's previous record of 6h 30m for the same journey.

The release of the French film Et Dieu … créa la femme ( And God Created Woman ) in November 1956 was a major event for the Riviera, making an international star of Brigitte Bardot, and making an international tourist destination of Saint-Tropez, particularly for the new class of wealthy international travellers called the ' jet set.

Now a successful and wealthy architect, Mark Wallace ( Albert Finney ) and his wife Joanna ( Jo ) Wallace ( Audrey Hepburn ) fly their white Mercedes 230SL roadster to Northern France, in order to continue driving to Saint-Tropez to celebrate the completion of a building project for a client, Maurice.

Also for the next generation of painters Saint-Tropez rests an interesting attraction.

His trademark was a white suit, and his Saint-Tropez parties at which all the guests wore white became huge events for the French media.

Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by Date Masamune, lands at Saint-Tropez for a few days, initiating the first contacts between France and Japan.

Probably the least remembered of Les Six, Louis Durey died at Saint-Tropez, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur, France in 1979.

* 1983: Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez with Xavier Deluc, Ticky Holgado, Olivia Dutron

* Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez ( 1983 )

The Massalians also established a series of small colonies and trading posts along the coast ; which later became towns ; they founded Citharista ( La Ciotat ); Tauroeis ( Le Brusc ); Olbia ( near Hyeres ); Pergantion ( Breganson ); Caccabaria ( Cavalaire ); Athenopolis ( Saint-Tropez ); Antipolis ( Antibes ); Nikaia ( Nice ), and Monoicos ( Monaco ).

* Colette ( Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette ) ( 1873 – 1954 ), although she was not from Provence, became particularly attached to Saint-Tropez.

The 3rd Infantry Division landed on the left at Alpha Beach ( Cavalaire-sur-Mer ), the 45th Infantry Division landed in the centre at Delta Beach ( Saint-Tropez ), and the 36th Infantry Division landed on the right at Camel Beach ( Saint-Raphaël ).

The famous admiral, Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez ( 1729 – 1788 ), was the third son of the marquis de Saint-Tropez.

" While with Paradis, Depp divided his time between their home in Meudon, located in the suburbs of Paris, 2 homes in Los Angeles, an island he bought in The Bahamas, and their villa in Le Plan-de-la-Tour, a small town 20 km from Saint-Tropez, in the south of France.

During July and August 1967, the promoter and manager Giorgio Gomelsky booked shows all along the Côte d ' Azur with the band's most notorious early gig taking place in the village square of Saint-Tropez.

At the age of 49, De Funès unexpectedly became a major star of international celebrity with the success of Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez.

Aerial view of Saint-Tropez, with marked Pampelonne beach in background, the citadel and the port in the foreground.

In Saint-Tropez destroyed by the war of the late, Raphael Garezzio built walls of speakers with two large towers are still standing: one to the end of the large mole and the other at the entrance to the " Ponche ".

The " clothing fights " between the gendarmerie and nudists become the main topic of famous French comedy film series Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez ( The policeman from Saint-Tropez ) with Louis de Funès.

* 1987: On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez with Luq Hamet, Brigitte Lahaie

* 1986: Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez with Philippe Caroit, Caroline Tresca

Rock has been referred to as ' Britain's Saint-Tropez ' and the ' Kensington of Cornwall ' due to its popularity with affluent holidaymakers ( including Prince Harry, the actor Hugh Grant, the Rothschilds, the Sainsburys, and the Freuds ).

Brigitte BardotIn May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez.

Brigitte Bardot and Sami Frey in Saint-Tropez, 1963. On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot was married to director Roger Vadim.

In the 1950s, partly thanks to Brigitte Bardot, Saint-Tropez became renowned internationally.

At the beginning of the Eighties, recovering from cancer of the throat, which had been diagnosed in 1979, he sold 80 % of his label to Polygram, and retired to Saint-Tropez, where he had spent 25 years building a house since Brigitte Bardot persuaded him to buy land there in the late 1950s.