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Mont Faron
Toulon looks better seen from a distance. Bus 40 will takeyou to Bd Amirai Vence in Super-Toulon (bus stop Telepherique), site of the terminus of the little bluefunicular that runs to the top of 1755ft Mont Faron (which means'lighthouse mountain'in Provenza). There's a narrow hairpin road circuit as well, beginning in Av Emile Fabre. Besides a tremendous view over the city and its harbours, there's theMusee Memorial du Debarquement, devoted to the Augusti944Allied landingin Provence, with models, uniforms and breathless 1944 newsreels. It shares the summit with a zoo, which i specializes in breeding wildcats, including jaguars, tigers and lions. In iggya'discovery path'was created amongthe wooded parks of the peak, with well-marked walkingtrails and picnic spots (the tourist office hasa booklet with a map) whereyou can escape the city stickiness in summer.<br />
Jules Verne, which includes 18th- and higth-century pieces from southeast Asia and Tibet (many from the collection of Baron de
Rothschild). Bus nos.3 and 13 from in front of the station oron Avdu Marechal Ledere will takeyou to the Plage du Mourillon, Toulon's largest beach and site of the city'soldest fort, Louis Xll's 1514 Grosse Tour or Tour Royale, which once guarded the eastern approaches toToulon with its rounded walls, 16-24ft thick. In later yearsthe lower part, excavated out of the rock, was used asa prison; it nowcontains an annexe of the Musee de la Marine, with morefigureheads in a baleful setting.Two beautiful coastal paths - the Sentier des Douaniers and the gentler Promenade Henri Fabre - leave from the Plage du Mourillon (both were damaged by severe storms in Septemberand Decembeng).They offer glimpes of tiny, hidden rocky coves shaded by umbrella pines and are about as near as you will get to an empty beach.<br />
The west shore of the Petite Rade is Toulon's business end: although theyards of La Seyne are nowclosed.there is a dense mass of factories and industry.To the south, at LAiguillette, stood little Gibraltar' near Fort Balaguier, another English stronghold that fell to Bonaparte; this now contains theMusee Naval Municipal du Fort Balaguier of Napoleana.<br />
Further south is the residential suburb of Tamaris, once the home of officers and their families, where George Sand wrote her novel Tamaris in 1861. In the 1880'S the mayor of nearby Sanary purchased much of Tamaris in the hope of turning it into a resort.This mayor had a more exciting career than most:born Michel Marius in Sanary in 1819, he wasemployed by the Ottoman Empire asa builder of light houses, a job he performed so well that the sultan