Île Sainte-Marguerite
Pine-forested island with a star fort, Roman cisterns and a museum of ancient shipwreck cargoes.
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This guide to Île Sainte-Marguerite, off Cannes, sets aside the island's famous prisoner for its appetite: the cargoes of food and wine that Roman-era merchant ships carried past these reefs. It follows one ship loaded some two thousand years ago with Greek wine, dates and hazelnuts, and the divers who went looking for it in the nineteen seventies. Best heard facing the fort, where the old Roman cisterns hold the museum.
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