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Along the customs path, discover Saint-Aygulf’s various creeks. These small coves will reveal all the hidden secrets of the Frejus Gulf seabed.

The Nature Base – a real green lung on the Côte d’Azur – has a public beach open all year round. With its large car park it is one of the most popular beaches with both Fréjus residents and tourists.

When the markets open in the historic town centre or on the seafront, all the colours, scents and flavours explode under the sun.

After strolling between the stalls and taking a break on the terrace, a burst of laughter, the warmth of the Fréjus accent. Then comes the moment to think about Provencal gastronomy, to share a special moment at the table, with family or friends.

The episcopal group in Fréjus is a set of four exceptional monuments.

The cathedral marks the entry of the bishopric in the region in the year 374, gradually changing over the years. The baptistery, an important witness to the expansion of Christianity, marked many souls with its blessing and the eyes fixed on its marble and granite columns still admire its beauty and its era.

The cloister is an open book that represents the world in the 14th century: its decorated woodwork is unique in France. The Episcopal Palace, now the town hall, proudly displays its medieval façade and secretly preserves the treasures of its past.

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Designed by the Greeks and then copied by the Romans, the Roman theatre in Fréjus is a space dedicated to art where actors, poets and musicians of antiquity performed. A popular gathering place, the Roman theatre in Fréjus is still with us 2000 years later, bruised by being abandoned, emaciated by the passage of time, but ennobled by the history it reveals and safeguards. Refurbished to allow it to return to its original function, the Roman theatre today boasts a contemporary structure combining iron with the vestiges of a great civilization.

Warm and contemporary, the Notre Dame de Jérusalem chapel otherwise known as Chapelle Cocteau is among the range of eclectic monuments around the heart of the city.

There are sensual curves drawn by Cocteau, dancing and hugging  the rhythm of sunbeams tinged with stained glass. Between the drawings of a poet soon swept away by disease and the works of the artists who succeed him, visitors can explore a world peopled with naive and delicate looking holy characters.

A large model of the Roman city of Forum Iulii, realized in 2006, welcomes you in the entrance hall of the museum. The collections are presented in four rooms of the 13th and 16th century of the Episcopal Group in Fréjus. In each of them, through objects from archaeological digs carried out from the 17th to the 20th century,  aspects of the history, urban planning, economy and  daily life of the city during the Roman era is covered.

The museum of local history is a return to the beginning: it is about respecting ancestral traditions, farm work, and the people that loved the land which they shaped in their image. Provence offers you everything authentic and you want more! Discover or rediscover the small and great histories of Provence and Fréjus in the 19th and 20th centuries at the Musée d’histoire locale. You will get a feel for the day to day lives of our elders, with all its toil, sorrows and shared happiness.

You are in happy Fréjus. Yet crossing a beautiful park the Hông Hiên Tu pagoda invites you on a spiritual Buddhist journey. Respecting the traditional architecture of Vietnamese Buddhism and adorned everywhere with sacred statues, its shimmering colours add to its exoticism.

Built at the request of Indochinese soldiers based in Fréjus in 1915, the pagoda allowed them to practice their religion with dignity. The oldest pagoda in Europe, it still remains active today.

The outskirts of the city are home to the heavy toll of past wars in Indochina. The Memorial is a place for contemplation, dedicated to soldiers and civilians that died for France and were brought back home. There are a total of 24 thousand graves in the adjoining necropolis, in a perfect circle with modern and solemn architecture. Imbued with the patriotic sacrifice, once you enter the circle you will be overcome with emotion .

Monument to the glory of the African army that died for France in the First World War, the Black Army Memorial sculpture pays homage to the contingents from the French colonies that were in Fréjus from 1915. The work is immersive:  solemn setting, serious faces. Full of symbols, it is the sense of the sacrifice that is perceived through the stylized bodies andthe faces looking to the sky. The epitaph, by Léopold Sédar Senghor, says: “Passersby, they fell fraternally united so that you could stay French”.

The arch and pillars still standing, Porte d’Orée is adorned with its finest shades of sandstone that lightens and darkens in rhythm with the sun, coexisting with brick, the Roman’s favourite building material. Unique testimony  of the presence of ancient baths in Fréjus, its misleading name does not make it a door, even less a gilded one, but one of the arches in the large cold bath room.

The Roman rampart in Fréjus is a “beautiful ruin” as Victor Hugo wrote. Remains trapped in a smothering of intertwined branches, it is still visible right in the middle of a garden. Follow the path in the park and your discovery will be punctuated by walls, towers, and arches, all from this Roman wall. This stone colossus which encircled and protected Forum Iuli (Fréjus) was the first testimony to the grandeur of the city that a stranger saw upon arrival.