Salins Beach, Hyères, France
This is the beach that has fuelled St Tropez’s fame since 1955. In high summer, it might welcome some 30,000 people a day. The three-mile stretch first came to 20th-century prominence as a key site of the Allied landings in August 1944. Subsequent landings by the great, the rich, the debauched and simply anonymous sun-seekers have been scarcely less hectic.
They do not, on the other hand, delight ecologically minded local authorities who reckon the premises are illegally installed and wrecking the balance of the coast.
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