Îles de Lérins

The Île Sainte-Marguerite is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the Cannes. The island is approximately 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) in length (east to west) and 900 meters (0.56 miles) across. It was occupied, at least, from the V Century BC

The ancient name of Sainte-Marguerite Island is Léro . This name must have come from a local deity, Leron, whose sanctuary is dedicated to him on the island.

You can get more pretty fascinating history of the island at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Île_Sainte-Marg…, but I can tell you that my initial interest of going there was the fact, that the island's Fort Royal owes its notoriety to its most famous prisoner, the Man in the Iron Mask, incarcerated there for eleven years when the fort housed a state prison.

..and that's where "misfortune #2 happened. Due to the fact that the overall number of people that Riviera brought from Golfe-Juan was abysmal, they scrapped all the ongoing service and informed us that there will be only 1 boat back - at 5:00PM.
(We'll get to all of this a little bit later)

Fort Royal, as seen from our boat
Remnants of Tour de Saint Anne
More steps to climb
Forest with trails
Same Pines as we saw at Botanical GardensRead more