Étang du Batéguier
Island pond and bird reserve where terns, gulls and herons gather against a backdrop of distant hills.
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This guide to the Batéguier pond on Île Sainte-Marguerite, off Cannes, starts with a small clay camel and the tenth-century Saracen merchant ship from al-Andalus that carried it. It is a story about freight, profit and a sea contested by Christian and Muslim powers. Best heard at the water's edge, where herons and terns feed, looking west toward open water.
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