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Les Lecques and St-Cyr-sur-Mer West of Bandol, Les Lecques is an unassuming family resort with a long,fine sand beach, set in front of the old Bandol AOC town of St-Cyr-sur-Mer, which has something in common with New York -a Statue of Liberty, a scale model of Bartholdi'sgra/idedame in Place Portalis.just cleaned up and looking splendid. It's a bustling little place, with a popular market and a formai rose garden, created after France won the football World Cup in 1998. In the middle ofitis a life-size poster of locai hero Frane LeBceufwho comes from the town, arms spread in victory. It also offers the cool, wet delights of Aqualand.<br />
Les Lecques itself isoneof several placesthat claim to be ancient Tauroentum,a colony of Greek Marseille where Caesar defeated Pompey in afamous naval battleand gained control of Marseille.<br />
But most of the finds in Les Lecques so far have been Roman, asdisplayed in theMusee de Tauroentum on the road to La Madrague.The museum proteets the remainsoftwo Roman villas built around the year adi, with mosaicsand bits of fresco, vases and jewellery, and outside, an unusual two-storey tomb of a child. Ancient Tauroentum itself issupposed to besome where just offshore, lost under the sea.Youcan look for traces ofit along a lonely coastal path (marked with yellow signs) that begins near the museum and continues to Bandol; along the way are little calanques for quiet swims.