Lérins Islands
Pine-covered Mediterranean islands with a working abbey, a medieval sea tower and a coastal fort.
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This guide to the Lérins Islands off Cannes stands you on the southern shore of Saint-Honorat, before a square stone tower the abbot Aldebert began in the eleventh century. It is about building for a siege on a rock in the sea: water, walls, a way in that could vanish, and the Saracen raids that made the monks think this way. It also asks why a tower with one famous date took so many generations to finish. Best heard from the shoreline path, with the tower in front of you.
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