Island Saint Barthelemy- the pearl of the Caribbean islands. The small island of Saint Barth is located 30 km from Saint Martin, and its area is only 25 square meters. km. This small island is completely focused on VIP tourism. Here you can soak up the sun and enjoy all kinds of water sports. Saint Barthelemy has the most beautiful bays and conditions for yachting enthusiasts, as well as magnificent beaches. The island has 20 snow-white sandy beaches, about 60 restaurants, the dishes of which are equated by gourmets to the masterpieces of French and New York chefs. There are also about 30 hotels on the island, among which luxury villas predominate. Celebrities flock to the beaches of St. Barths in winter. The most significant social events on the island are the classical music festival in January, the world music festival in August and the film festival in April.
Location: Central America, Lesser Antilles, between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The island of volcanic origin is located 24 km southeast of the island. Saint Martin and 225 km north of the island. Guadeloupe.
Story- the island was discovered in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, who named it in honor of his brother Bartolomeo. The island's indigenous inhabitants, Caribbean Indians, successfully prevented European settlements from appearing on St. Barth for many years. However, already in 1673 the French took possession of the island, annexing Saint Barts to their possessions under the name Guadeloupe.
Gustavia- the main city of the island. The city was founded on the shores of a picturesque bay, in the harbor of which today there are exquisite yachts. Gustavia is famous for its first-class restaurants, which offer wonderful panoramic views; boozy bars right on the seashore and duty-free shops where you can buy Havana cigars, French perfumes, Italian designer clothes and fine wines. On the beaches and in restaurants of Gustavia you can meet Hollywood celebrities who invariably spend their holidays in St. Barths. There is a Historical Museum (documents and photographs, an exhibition of flora and fauna), an ancient church with a bell tower made of stone and wood. Morne du Vit is a kind of observation deck where you can view the entire island from a 300-meter height.
Climate Tropical marine, with a rainy season from July to October. The average air temperature is 26 C, from January to May the temperature rises to 32 C. The water temperature is about 25 C almost all year round. Precipitation ranges from 600 to 2000 mm per year. From February to April are the driest months, when it rains on average no more than seven days a month and air humidity is 77%. July and November are the wettest months, with rain often continuing for 10-14 days and humidity averaging 85%.
Official language- French.
Population- about 5 thousand people.
Currency: Euro.
Timezone minus 8 hours.
Flight to Saint Martin 1 hour.
Visa- Russian citizens require a visa.
Entertainment- snorkeling, boat trips and luxury yachts, fishing, scuba diving, horse riding, golf.
I never prepare thoroughly for trips. I don’t want to form any stereotypical expectations, so that later I don’t want to compare reality with them, but simply absorb it.
This time I was especially glad that I was flying completely unprepared. How do you like this phrase from your neighbor on the plane: “Did you know that St. Barts airport is the most dangerous in the world?” And seeing my widened eyes, she added: “What, you really haven’t watched the video on YouTube?”
Already at the hotel I looked. And look.
But at that moment I was not ready for such impressions.
A twenty-seater plane with pilots sitting almost next to you, after several turns, sharply gains altitude absolutely vertically in front of the mountain, goes around it and also vertically begins to fall down. It is impossible to fall, because it smoothly lands on a short strip that runs straight into the snow-white beach and ocean. I had to close my eyes, but my natural curiosity didn’t let me. It was the most exotic landing of my life. Then I found out that every day hundreds of vacationers specially come to this beach to watch the landing show of a regular flight. I came too.
The first person to arrive in St. Barts by plane was the Dutch smuggler Remy de Haenen, the future mayor of the island's capital, Gustavia. It was he who invited the first VIP guests - David Rockefeller, Greta Garbo and Rudolf Nureyev. They became the first of a series of world celebrities to fall in love with St. Barts.
Breakfast in the port of the capital of the island of Gustavia in the circle of the local elite - the governor, ministers. Yes, they are having fun with government management there. All the attributes of elitism are also present: a motorcade that is impossible to deploy on three two-hundred-meter streets, a state yacht, a state dacha and much more.
By the way, about yachts. You can spend hours watching how a team of tanned young sailors, millimeter by millimeter, scrub all four decks of multimillion-dollar ocean beauties. At this moment you understand that it is better to have a friend with a yacht than a yacht. An excellent option, for example, is to have Roma Abramovich as a friend.
He and his Russian gang of oligarchs took a fancy to St. Barts, bought some land and, according to rumors and even bright notes in a local Russian-language glamor magazine, periodically throws noisy parties on his yacht or villa. They say that they are not at all difficult to get to. You just need to refer to the name of a common nodding acquaintance. And the doors to the Great Gatsby-themed party are open.
Why is everyone in white pajamas? No, well, not exactly pajamas, but the dress code is very specific - thin, translucent cotton or linen tunics that barely cover the very beginning of the legs of ladies, mostly of model appearance, and loose trousers or Bermuda shorts with shirts, respectively, also snow-white for Hollywood type men. They probably don’t want to spoil the harmony of colors with other colors.
Turquoise ocean, ivory sand, emerald greenery, red roofs of villas and hotels, boiling white clothes. But if the color does not allow the designers’ creativity to play out, then the finishing completely compensates for this: lace, embossing, pearl threads. In general, everything that can reflect the individuality of the owner in this “simple village” for billionaires. Tags with big designer names “accidentally” displayed are also welcome.
I decided to immerse myself in island life. The choice between an open jeep and a retro bicycle with a picnic basket in front is difficult, but having learned the distances between attractions (from 500 meters to three kilometers), I decided on a two-wheeled friend.
As you know, a woman cannot be forced to make a choice. And for me it arose at every step. For example, which of the 22 luxurious beaches should you go to? I decided to conquer a few that I would meet along the way and attract attention. I wasn't the only one who did this. On the third beach, I saw one couple who were also wandering around in search of their favorite place on the ocean. Having recognized each other on the third beach, we couldn’t resist introducing ourselves. A couple, about 40, French and Parisians of such a generation that I think their great-great-grandmother observed the actions of Napoleon. He is a shoe designer, she is a swimming pool architect. She had just been given an order to design a swimming pool for one of the villas in St. Barts, and the guys decided to combine work with vacation. I think a lot of people here do this.
The third day on the island, and they are already talking about selling some of their Parisian real estate and settling on this “cute island”. Well, work remotely or fly to clients. Many people here do the same. Many of those who have visited and can afford it.
The island administration is very critical of the origin, status and financial condition of the new settlers. They are very careful that there is only cream. Those who have moved to the island are not idle. Someone opens a restaurant. As a result, there are more than a hundred of them on such a tiny island.
Some people make handmade jewelry from shells starting from 100 euros per bracelet.
Walking in the evening, around 10 o’clock, along one of the central streets, I looked into the slightly open blinds of one of the boutiques. There, a tanned man with a very aristocratic appearance was sewing suede moccasins. They were displayed in the window without even a price. I am sure that moccasins sewn in St. Barts by the hands of a tenth-generation aristocrat are simply priceless... You don’t see such hard work everywhere.
On the fourth beach I stopped near the famous Eden Rock hotel. The Rock Stars villa, which belongs to this hotel and is equipped with a full-fledged recording studio, was once the birthplace of The Beetles' hits.
I stopped not because of Beatlemania, but for the magnificent restaurant on the cliff. You know, this is when you look at a certain view and already realize that years will pass, but the picture will be alive in your memory. The kitchen didn't disappoint either. True, at first I was surprised that I was alone in the restaurant. But the smiling waiter explained to me that there would be no free seats until closer to eight in the evening.
And in general, the nightlife on the island is active. In one of the nightclubs, eighty-year-old Americans, again in white pajamas, danced provocatively on tables, often sipping on the neck of five-liter bottles of champagne. Models flew through the dance floor in flocks, and fireworks continuously exploded in the street. It was even difficult to imagine that during the day this island was half-asleep and sparsely populated.
In general, I found my formula for an ideal village: clean ocean, ideal weather, magical beaches, unobtrusive hotels and the same service, open people who clearly understand the word “tact”. Oh yes. I almost forgot about the white pajamas made of the finest linen.
Island in the Caribbean Sea, French overseas territory: Saint Barths Island
Saint Barts or completely Saint Barthelemy| Saint Barthelemy - who makes fun of French: Saint Barthelemy
Saint Barth Island in the Caribbean Sea.
Beaches in St. Barths.
Photos of Saint Barts.
Review of St. Barths separated from topic
A small islet 28 km south of the island Saint Martin(Saint Martin), which is the gateway to this island paradise as there is a small airport Gustavia(capital of St. Barths) accepts only light propeller-driven aircraft.
Another way to get to Saint Barth is by ferry from Marigot, the capital of the French part of the island of Saint Martin. The capital of the French part of Saint Martin is Marigot.
The city's calling card: the "sticky birds" fountain
This is a view of Marigot from the embankment.
There is a shopping center below, everything is very beautiful in style.
Tickets to St. Barths
A return ticket from Saint Martin to Saint Barth costs $80 when booked in advance by calling Voyager: http://www.voy12.com
Travel time is 1 hour 15 minutes.
Ferry: a brand new catamaran with two air-conditioned salons and two open decks (upper and lower).
The ferry makes several trips a day. The schedule is on the website
Saint Barts In the morning the first flight from St. Maarten is at 9:15
In the evening the last one from St. Barths is at 17:00 From Philipsburg Ferries also operate, but they are smaller, older and not catamarans.
The sea will rock harder.
Saint Barts There is another carrier company from Marigot: West Indian Co, but the ship is old and will flop around at sea - I’m sure.
Getting to Saint Barth is easy:
— we booked two tickets the day before the trip by phone.
— In the morning we arrived in Marigot and left the car in a free parking lot in the Marina Fort Louis area - there are several of them and there are always spaces.
— We bought tickets: I paid $80 in dollars for a round trip ticket (all taxes included)
— Then we went through passport control (the same overseas French visa is valid in Saint Barts as in Saint Martin) and boarded the catamaran.
The ferry departs from the shore and goes around the entire western part of the island, then goes in a straight line for 28 km and here we are - in the marina of the capital of Saint Barts, the city Gustavia. A small and cute town.
It is very similar to any town on the Cote d'Azur of France or the northern lakes of Italy: straight streets going uphill and three avenues parallel to the marina (mooring and parking place for expensive yachts).
I forgot about Gustavia: the island itself is miniature, like everything else here.
Gustavia is the capital of Saint Barths
The first thing that catches your eye is the abundance of shops and boutiques of expensive brands. Electric cars and buggies, Mini convertibles and good looking people.
Very few blacks.
The bulk of the inhabitants are Americans, Europeans and, as they say, Russians.
After Roman Abramovich built an orphanage here on a plot of several hectares in the area of Gouverneur Beach (more about it below) and restored the football stadium, small oligarchs of all stripes flocked here.
They say that the percentage of American and Russian land lords is 80 to 20. We are there.
We go a little lost, because there is no information about this island except idiotic essays from travel agencies and some ladies in search of glamor.
We walk along the road along the marina where there are beautiful and expensive yachts and come across Rent Car.
Car rental in Saint Barths
It's not difficult to find it:
After leaving the ferry and turning right, go along Rue de la Republique and then along Rue de General de Gaulle.
Past good shops with expensive watches, suits, jewelry...
After Rue de Lafayette crosses your path, you will see ATVs and buggies parked.
The Rent Car sign is not noticeable, but you won’t miss the office.
What can be rented: ATV or, in our case, an ATV. I even see bugs, like I have in my garage at the dacha, only in blue. You can take a scooter. Or maybe a car. Since it’s starting to rain, we decide to take a car. A small automatic Hyundai costs 48 euros for the day. To rent you need a driver's license and a bank card. A deposit of 1000 euros is frozen on it, which is immediately returned to the account when returning the car. We are on wheels.
We have a map of the island and notes made by the owner of the office: what to see in St. Barths.
Saint Barts Airport
Our first point is the airport: the highest point from which it is clearly visible and you can watch planes take off and land is located on the first roundabout after leaving the city to the north, towards the village of Flamands
We stop and I take a few shots: below us there is a green valley with a crossed out gray line of the landing strip resting on the yellow spot of the beach, and then... then the blue of the sea merging with the blue of the sky at that distant point called the horizon...
Very beautiful.
I recommend visiting.
Hotel on St. Barths
Then we drive down, past the tiny airport, the road turns right and on the right there will be a parking lot where you can park your car and then walk along the fence enclosing the territory of the runway to get to the beach. But we drive further and park in the parking lot of the hotel-restaurant Eden Rock
Well, just a very beautiful restaurant and hotel.
While I’m digging around, opening the car door with things that I need to take with me to the beach, a guy comes up:
- Have you come to eat?
- No, just look
- Then please do not lock the car and leave the keys in the ignition.
We go out along the path made of decking to the beach: beauty. White sand, shallow azure sea and sections of villas facing the sea. The sections are not limited in any way, just rattan chairs of different colors.
People are resting.
A little.
Europeans.
It immediately catches your eye: well-groomed, fit, not a gay old man.
We walk along the beach towards the airfield runway. It is limited symbolically: by buoys on the water, so that kiters do not wind their kites around the airplane propeller, and by a sign on the shore.
After the runway section on the beach, the wild part begins, where you can lie on a towel.
The place is good and beautiful: opposite there are two islands. The sea is clear, but the northern part was windy that day, so there was some grass on the shore. Small waves. I recommend visiting.
Airplanes fly with propellers.
They take off about 300 meters from the beach. This is not in St. Martin, but there is also some kind of thrill here: there are not so many tourists running after every plane with cameras, everything is smooth and lazy. Like in the village.
I was the only one running with a camera.
Beaches in St. Barths
Didn't note that the first beach is called Baie de St Jean. The beach is good.
Long, but somehow cozy and homey.
It’s hard to understand that this is the center of the island - the airport, the football field, which was restored by Abramovich (his house is nearby) ...
By the way, the second point of our stay on the island of St. Barts was precisely that same football field: the Frenchman who rented out the car in Gustavia talked a lot about Roman Abramovich.
In the end he offered to come visit him and knock on the gate...
We didn’t find the house, but here is the football field:
Once again I’ll mention the Edem Rock Hotel that I really liked – it’s very beautiful. The staff is well-trained.
There are not many hotels on the island of St. Barths. There are mainly dachas, villas and long-term rental properties.
The property is beautiful and adapted to the mountainous terrain. During my trip around the island, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was in the Lake Como region of Italy - the style of roads and terrain, as well as the estates, were very similar
We drive further east along the roads of the island.
Roads are of good quality. The movement is energetic, just like the people inhabiting this island. We didn’t meet any Negrils in the wrecks, like in Saint Martin, who like to stand in the middle of the road and talk out of the window with their buddies. There is no public transport or minibuses. Everyone drives smoothly and quickly. Small sedans, mini convertibles, small jeeps, ATVs and buggies.
The quality of the roads is excellent, I’m very pleased with the absence of speed bumps - an asshole invention, which is abundantly represented in neighboring Saint Martin.
Next beach on the way Anse de Grand Cul de Sac I did not like. Although it was recommended by a Frenchman. It is possible that the surf was to blame, as today the north wind blew and a lot of grass washed up on the shore, so the water turned brown.
But the restaurant on the beach was good, as was the maha-maha tartare. It’s strange, I thought it was a Tahitian fennec fish, or exported from other French territories or found in the Caribbean Sea, but the fish was not frozen. Fresh.
The list of my favorite beaches begins. After a trip to St. Barths, the beach in San Blas (Panama) became dark. But first we come to a place that is incomprehensible at first glance called Anse de Grande Saline. Saline is what estuaries are called in French Provence. There are a couple of salt lakes in this place. Next to the parking lot. I don’t understand the humor and I want to turn around and leave.
But.
Path and sign “to be afraid”. We walk along the path, climb up the stones and think out loud: what if there is homosexuality and naked ass like in Saint Martin?
What should we do, let's go back...
A piece of the picture with a turquoise sea is shown. People. There are people on the beach.
- Look, are there any naked ones?
- Hooray! Ordinary sunbathers on the beach
The beach is good.
It’s wild: everyone brings what they need: umbrellas, chairs...
But the bulk lies on towels. The beach is wide and there is enough space for everyone to enjoy the sea and sun
The sand is clean. Water... The water is so... Something special. She envelops your body. She caresses. It is so soft that it is simply pleasant to lie in it. The water is clear and turquoise. Rare and solid waves.
I call the waves solid when they don’t flicker and don’t hit you in the mug when you swim breaststroke from the shore. They allow you to climb on top of yourself and slide down. They cradle and rock so that you can just fall asleep in their arms
It reminds me of the early one in Thailand, until I wrote about it and this information was published in Lonely Planet and after that a massive invasion of the Chinese began and, accordingly, all the hippie-savage charm of this place disappeared...
Very good place. I highly recommend visiting.
Beach number 2 in my rating
Next clockwise in the direction of travel around the island of St. Barths, Gouverneur beach
This is a special beach. Small, homely, surrounded on all sides by mountains. There are about 10 villas on the mountain slopes, including Abramovich's estate, and that's it.
The water is so pure that I can easily compare it to the water in a swimming pool. Entering the water is pleasant, immediately deep. The bottom is visible to the naked eye: the water is so clear that when swimming you can see fish below, 7 meters below you. There are almost no waves.
People relax on towels or sun loungers they brought with them. Very calm and quiet. There are no screaming children with their mothers, no crowds taking pictures. Very similar to earlier Koh Lipe, again. People read, sunbathe, swim
The beach is clean. Perhaps the reason for this is the message when entering the beaches of the southern part of the island of St. Barths not to shit at home. Empty soda cans hang on the board below the call. They are used as ashtrays on the beach, and when they leave, they are hung back. This is the first time I've seen this and I really like it. People here understand that they have been vacationing here for many years, as well as their children and grandchildren, so everything is in order with cleanliness here
The result of seven hours spent on St. Barths: during this time you can really explore the island and find your place on this beautiful and calm piece of land, which seems to be nothing special: bushes and cacti on the mountain slopes.
For this you will need a means of transportation because you can’t do anything on foot, although a taxi is possible, but I’m used to driving myself:
The rental is located at the end of the marina, on the second street from it. There's a car wrecking shop nearby, you can't go wrong. The island is small, everything is nearby and very compact. During the trip, 5 liters of gasoline were consumed, which was calculated at 1 euro. The total cost of the trip was 53 euros. I consider it a normal price to pay for the pleasure of exploring new lands and beaches.
I’m starting to think that it’s not such a bad option for independent travelers to explore new lands.
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And probably the most glamorous on our planet. There is only one city on the island (which is difficult to even call a city). Throughout the rest of the island you will find only comfortable hotels and fashionable villas. And of course, boutiques of the world's leading brands. It is no coincidence that St. Barts is called “a millionaire's paradise,” although it would be more accurate to call it “a millionaire's playground.” Everything is the best here. The richest and most famous vacationers. And their favorite toys: the most expensive villas, the most luxurious yachts and the most beautiful women. The restaurants have the best food, and St. Barth's beaches are, of course, the whitest and sandiest.
Getting here is not so easy. They usually fly from neighboring St. Maarten for a quarter of an hour in a small plane that provides beautiful, mesmerizing views during the flight out the window, or straight from the cockpit! As an option, from the same St. Maarten, a 45-minute boat ride. Or, like some, on your own yacht. Despite the fact that the island was discovered by Columbus already in 1493 (and named by the great navigator in honor of his brother Barthalomeo), due to its small size it remained unclaimed. Neither the Spaniards nor the pirates visited it. The shorter and simpler the story, the happier the people. This entire expression can be redirected to St. Barth. An amazing story for the Caribbean. No coffee or sugar cane plantations, no importation of black slaves from Africa, no major clashes between colonial powers. There is also a completely unique fragment for the region - the Swedish West Indies Campaign was based here.
Calmness, luxury, serenity... These words are just a small part of the praise that comes to mind for those who are planning to appreciate Saint Barthélemy. Everything around us is the embodiment of perfection, or at least as close to perfection as possible.
Being thus virtually neutral territory, the island served all other players on the map of the Caribbean as a place of resupply and trade, due to which its prosperity began. In reality, the history of Saint Barth, one might say, started only in the middle of the last century. The first to appreciate it and settle here was David Rockefeller, who built a villa on the inaccessible northwestern coast, just above Colombe Beach, which has since become known as Rockefeller Beach. Then, as if to keep up with Rockefeller, Edmond de Rothschild's property appeared on the opposite side of the island, in La Gouverneur Bay. Soon the Ford estates appeared, and then everyone else followed suit.
Of our compatriots, the first to settle on the island, who came all from France, was the famous choreographer and “defector” Rudolf Nureyev. Despite the fact that the outstanding choreographer died, and the owners of the house have long since changed, his home is still known in Saint-Barth as “La maison de Noureev”. The island is also unique in that it seems to be in the wrong place on the world map. In terms of its atmosphere and mood, Saint Barth most closely resembles the French Riviera, as if someone had cut out a piece of it and thrown it ten thousand kilometers to the other side of the ocean.
Saint Barth is a French territory, or rather an overseas community of France. Unlike other Antilles, the entire population here is descendants of Europeans, which can be considered an ethnographic curiosity for the region. The population of the island is constantly increasing, no one is emigrating towards the USA in search of a better life, as in many countries around. On the contrary, over the past couple of decades, the population of St. Barths has doubled. Basically, this addition is world celebrities, members of their families and simply rich people, usually from continental France. The level of literacy and welfare, respectively, is the same as in Europe, and, perhaps, even higher. After all, it’s absolutely impossible to meet even one poor person here! Well, it will probably be difficult for any other cuisine in the world to compete with French cooking, which has fallen under the beneficial Caribbean sauce! On a very small (21 square kilometer) island you will find about seven dozen of the most exquisite restaurants. Each of them will be a real discovery for gourmets, having their own dishes from the freshest ingredients and some gastronomic customs. And, of course, a stellar line-up of regular visitors. There are no special architectural and historical attractions here.
The only city and capital of Gustavia (whose name dates back to the era of the Swedish presence) can be walked around in half an hour, with all its churches and historical dilapidated forts. That is, unless, of course, you stay in one of the many boutiques. But the main attraction of the capital will be its Shell beach. As the name suggests, this is the only non-sandy beach on the island, consisting entirely of tiny white shells, although outwardly they are indistinguishable from the white sand. You don’t have to buy a souvenir here; you can, for example, weave your own beads directly from the paste material. However, it is the white beaches and their guests that are the main attraction not only of Gustavia, but of the entire island. Diving, snorkeling, surfing and fishing are actively developing, as elsewhere in the Caribbean. And of course, massage, water and spa treatments for those who came just to relax.
Saint Barth is without a doubt considered the most prestigious and expensive holiday destination in the Caribbean. From glamor magazines and similar news, almost everyone knows about the island, but very few people have actually been able to visit there. For a long time, due to the high cost and popularity with the powers that be, reserving a room in St. Barts hotels was not an easy task. Especially on the eve of Christmas and New Year holidays. All hotels had their regular customers. Basically, visitors try to rent a villa, but they are rented for no less than 6-7 days, and on holidays for no less than 10.
Instead of having to sort out the reservation every time, it’s easier to buy this villa! This is exactly what our compatriot Roman Abramovich did, who purchased a villa in the same area where the Rothschilds lived - next to La Gouverneur Bay. Roman Arkadyevich’s friends, as well as numerous representatives of domestic and world show business, flock here for the New Year holidays. With his purchase, our oligarch made a significant contribution to the tourist attractiveness of the island! Recently, the situation has become simpler, the number of hotels and rooms in them has increased, and for many it has become possible to fulfill their dream - to get to the fabulous glamorous island of Saint Barthelemy!
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The Isle of Saint-Barthelemy is a French overseas possession in the Caribbean. The total area of the island is only 25 square meters. km, about 9 thousand people live here. Saint Barthelemy lies near the island of Saint Martin and 200 kilometers from Guadeloupe. The capital, the city of Gustavia, was founded by settlers from Sweden back in the 18th century. The majority of the population are Europeans, with the exception of mestizos, blacks and mulattoes.
Saint Barthélemy on the world map
This small island is of volcanic origin and is surrounded by small reefs and small islets. The coast of the island is rocky, but there are areas with good beaches. There is no water on the island; there are no rivers or streams.
Saint Barthelemy lies in a tropical climate zone, where the weather is hot and sunny almost all year round. The climate is arid, most of the island is desert land overgrown with cacti. The island became famous only for its wonderful beaches.
The island is completely focused on tourism; oligarchs and celebrities from all over the world come here. All conditions for recreation and sports of the highest class are created here. This is a very expensive resort.
The main advantage of the island is its snow-white beaches, picturesque bays and excellent conditions for diving, golf, fishing and yachting. A wonderful beach holiday can be combined with horseback riding around the island and a comfortable stay in luxury hotels and villas.
Map of Saint Barthélemy in Russian
There are about 30 hotels on the island with excellent restaurants offering expensive gourmet dishes of Italian, French and Asian cuisine to suit every taste. This is a favorite holiday destination for millionaires and Hollywood stars; entertainment and cultural life on the island continues all year round.
Of the twenty-two beautiful beaches, you can choose any one according to your taste; in the coastal waters there are all conditions for diving, surfing, snorkeling and active sea recreation. Helicopter excursions are available. You can visit the colorful village of Colombier, visit the Montbar grotto, where, according to legend, pirate treasures are hidden.
The Ingenue Museum - Magras houses a unique collection of shells, and the Art Gallery will delight you with its exhibits. Many people visit the ancient estate of La Manor and climb the picturesque Mount Morne-Vitiers. Bright and colorful events, carnivals and festivals, fireworks shows and concerts with famous singers and musicians are held here all year round.
