THE MOST INTERESTING POINTS

CIVIL HERITAGE

• relics of the ancient fortifications : forts Bérouard and saint-Antoine ;
• door dating of 1628;
• house of the "frères Lumière" (who shot several films there) and big living room (inscribed to Ancients Monuments) ;
• houses of XVIIth century, streets Fougasse and Abeille ;
• ancient hotel of Grimaldi-Régusse (inscribed to Ancients monuments) - this hotel was built in XVIIth century as for owners of a shipping company and merchants, the Grimaldi ; the pediment of the door is of type ornementaliste (epoch Louis XIV) ;
• ancient hall, staircase and roofing (inscribed to Ancients Monuments), 6, street Adolphe-Abeille;
• ancient hôtel-de-ville XIXth century, of style Renaissance, overcome by a bell tower: on the facade, memorial inscription of the stopover of Lamartine in La Ciotat (the ancient town hall accommodates now the museum of the city) ;
• octagonal tower, relic of the ancient nunnery of Ursulines ;
• the ancient Eden-concert, the most ancient cinema of the world (inscribed to Ancients Monuments);
• quarter of the Railway station: site of the filming of one of the first films in the world, " Entrance of the train in railway station of La Ciotat ", in 1895 by the Frères Lumière ;
• ruins of the Fort Saint-Pierre on the "Ile Verte" (La Ciotat) ;

ENVIRONMENTAL HERITAGE

• park of Mugel: 12 hectares of greenery and plantations at the foot of the "Bec de l'Aigle"
• Callanques of Mugel and Figuerolles
• Bec de l'Aigle
• The road of the Crests which links up La Ciotat to Cassis

CITY Of CREATIONS

The cinema

At the end of the XIXth century, industrialists of Lyon, the "Frères Lumière", are going to play a role of first plan in the history of the cinema with, in 1895 one of the first accomplished films, "The Arrival of a train in railway station of La Ciotat", followed by some others that have been accomplished in their house of La Ciotat, Le Château du Clos des Plages : "the watered Sprinkler", "Baby's Meal". Les Frères Lumière also accomplish the first photographs in colour in the gulf of La Ciotat.
In La Ciotat is also the oldest still existent cinema of the world, "L'Eden", facing the new harbour of the city. Its rehabilitation via a committee of support chaired by Bertrand Tavernier is under way, and the cinema should reopen shortly, as well as a museum Lumière-Michel Simon (the actor having finished its days in Ciotat). La Ciotat is one of the essential cities of the beginning of the cinema.

The pétanque

Ciotat also demands the creation of the pétanque : in 1910, in the ground of Provençal game of the brothers Pitiot, the chairs of the audience had been taken away. But a friend of the owners, Jules Lenoir, who was crippled of rheumatisms and found it difficult to stay standing, was authorized to play sat in a fixed post, " feet tanqués " in the middle of a circle drawn on the ground.

It was once 1720

" It was once 1720" a historical celebration which recalls the terrible period of the Pest of Marseilles which hit Provence in XVIIIth century.
The show, which took place for the first time in 2002, is the work of a non-profitmaking organization: " La Ciotat, it was once ", of volunteers, from the city or besides, who work all the year long to prepare this weekend of historical reconstitution.

CULTURAL HERITAGE

• Church Notre-Dame-De-L' Assomption XVIIth century ;
• Chapel of White Penitents XVIIth century;
• the Ancient chapel of the Blue Penitents 1598 and its esplanade (Ancienst monuments);
• Chapel Notre-Dame-De-La-Garde XVIIe (ex-votos) ;
• Chapels San José, Saint-Jean, Abeille.

PLACE OF HOLIDAYS

In XIXth and XXth centuries, the city is known as place of holiday. Lamartine, Stendhal stoped there, George Braque and Othon Friesz paint there several pictures, one is "La Calanque", grey time on the site of Figuerolles. The painter André Masson stays there in 1930s, the sculptor Baltasar Lobo around 1945.

Since, the city kept its power of attraction for summer tourism and offers numerous beaches, numerous possibilities of diving, as well as a starting point for visiting the Calanques.

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