I took a walking tour around La Ciotat a couple of days ago to get a feel for the town. As you'll see, it's quite a cute little area, right on the Mediterranean.
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| beach at sunrise |
It is still warm enough to go to the beach. I went on Thursday. Well, it's pushing it to go for a swim (none of the locals are going in) but I went in with E., the British assistant. I guess since we're from colder climates, we're not so picky temperature-wise.
Here are a few pictures of La Ciotat:
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| Jardin de Ville |
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Cinema Lumière
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La Ciotat is known as the "birthplace of cinema" because th
e Lumière brothers filmed here in the 1890s. The "original" cinema is downtown, and one of the very first films, Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (Arrival of a train in La Ciotat) was shown here. It was such a new and amazing technology that, according to legend, the audience thought the train was coming right at them (live) and jumped out of their seats.
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| church |
La Ciotat is also a resort town, and most of the downtown is either beach or harbor. There are rocky coves you can visit on a ferry, a little island off the coast (
l'Ile Verte) and a hiking trail between La Ciotat and other towns, Cassis and Toulon, and Marseille. The area reminds me a bit of the
Cinque Terre in Italy, which
I visited in 2011.
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