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Artists and intellectuals have met for decades in the famous Café des Arts, now simply
lunch/dinner menus €18/30; lunch & dinner daily)
- not to be confused with the new-
er, green-canopied Café des Arts on the corner of the square). Aspiring
pétanque
players
can borrow a set of boules from the bar or buy their own at
La Palanquée
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( 04 94 97 41 41; bd Louis Blanc)
. Locals tend to hang on the other side of
the square.
Musée de l'Annonciade
(place Grammont; adult/child €6/4; 10am-noon & 2-6pm Wed-Mon Oct & Dec-May,
10am-noon & 3-7pm Wed-Mon Jun-Sep)
In a gracefully converted 16th-century chapel,
this small but famous art museum showcases an impressive collection of modern art in-
fused with that legendary Côte d'Azur light. Pointillist Paul Signac bought a house in St-
Tropez in 1892 and introduced others to the area. The museum's collection includes his
St-Tropez, Le Quai
(1899) and
Vue de St-Tropez, Coucher de Soleil au Bois de Pins
(1896), which hangs juxtaposed with a window-view of contemporary St-Tropez.
Vuillard, Bonnard and Maurice Denis (the self-named 'Nabis' group) have a room to
themselves. Fauvist collections include Derain and Matisse, who spent the summer of
1904 here. Cubists George Braque and Picasso are also represented.
ART MUSEUM
La Ponche
Shrug off the hustle of the port in St-Tropez's ramshackle fishing quarter, La Ponche,
northeast of the Vieux Port. From the southern end of quai Frédéric Mistral, place Gar-
rezio sprawls east from 10th-century
Tour Suffren
to place de l'Hôtel de Ville. From
here, rue Guichard leads southeast to sweet-chiming
Église de St-Tropez
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(place de l'Ormeau)
, a St-Trop landmark built in 1785 in Italian baroque style.
Inside is the bust of St Torpes, honoured during Les Bravades des Espagnols.
Follow rue du Portail Neuf south to
Chapelle de la Miséricorde
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(rue de la Miséricorde)
, built in 1645 with a pretty bell tower and colourful tiled dome.
HISTORIC QUARTER
Citadelle de St-Tropez
(admission €2.50; 10am-6.30pm)
Built in 1602 to defend the coast against Spain, the
citadel dominates the hillside overlooking St-Tropez to the east. The views (and pea-
HISTORIC SITE
