Bouches-du-Rhône (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Last modified: 2004-07-17 by ivan sache
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• Yacht clubs in Marseilles
• Yacht clubs in La Ciotat
  • Neptune-Club
  • Société Nautique de la Ciotat
  • Société des Régates de la Ciotat
• Cercle Nautique de la Vesse (Le Rove)
• Club Nautique de Port-Miou (Cassis)
• Société Nautique de la Redonne (Ensuès-la-Redonne)

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• France
• Bouches-du-Rhône (Department, France)
• France: Yacht clubs

Cercle Nautique de la Vesse

by Ivan Sache

La Vesse is a tiny port located at the far end of a calanque on the Blue Coast. The best way to reach it is to go by train or car to the neighbouring village of Niolon, which is comparatively very big, and take a path going to the east and la Vesse via the limestone cliffs. There are about twenty houses in la Vesse, most of them being cabanons. Those cabanons are kinds of cabins in which the inhabitants of Marseilles moved on Sundays. The cabanon is an important part of the local culture, as a mark of individual freedom and a way to escape the big city. The rich merchants of Marseilles also had their cabanons, which were rather called châteaux (castles) and were much more comfo