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Title: Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker, London :b
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of which are built up. The dooris ornamented with Renaissance sculptures, which are covered byboards but shown by the sacristan (at the entrance to the cloisters).In the interior are some wood-carvings of the 16th and an altar-piece of the 15th century. Fine view from the tower (50 c). In the line Nationale, the continuation of the Route de Cannes,is a small Museum of Antiijuities (apply at the Hotel de Ville), con-taining a well-preserved antique head of Jupiter (nose renewed)and various sculptures, terracottas, bronzes, etc. The Roman Bridge, where I.epidus encamped his troops, lies about1 31. to the E. of the Amphitheatre, near the railway, but on the otherside. The canal which it crossed is now diverted. From Frejus to JJijeres and to St. Kaphael by the Ligne du Sud, seepp. 470, 471. — Omnibus to St. Raphael, 25 c. The railway traverses the site of the old harbour of Frejus, witha view of the Porte Doree and the aqueduct, to the left, and of theLantern of Augustus, to the right.
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to Ymlhuhjlia. ST. RAPHAEL. V. Route. 111. 461 100 M. St. Raphael. — Hotels. Grand-Hotel, at some distance fromthe. sea, R. from 5V2, B. ll/2, dej. 31/2, D. 5, pens, from 10, omn. 1-2 fr. ;Continental Hot. den Bains, on the beach, R. & A. 3-10, L. 3/4i B. ll/3,dej. 3, D. 4, pens, from 9, omn. 1 fr.; Beau-Hivage, on the beach, R. 5-8,B. I1/2, dej. 4, D. 5, pens. 9-12, omn. 1 fr.; de la Poste et des Negociants,near the station, R. 3-5, B. 8/4-!, dej. 2l/2, D. 3 (incl. wine), pens. 6-12 fr.;Hot. de France. — Sea Bat/is, opposite the Hotel Continental. — EnglishChurch Service in winter. St. Raphael (4270 inhab.), a thriving seaport on the Gulf ofFrejus, is frequented as a sea-bathing place and as a winter-resortowing to its favourable situation, which is well sheltered towardsthe E., though exposed to the Mistral. Here Napoleon I. landed onhis return from Egypt in 1799, and embarked for Elba in 1814. Thestrangers quarter is in the new or winter town, with numerousvillas and boul

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