Beautiful bay, and the slightly more challenging path means you really deserve a break here. The small island offshore makes the view even more beautiful.
Unfortunately, the fortress cannot be visited. But you can at least walk around most of it. There is still a bunker from the last century on the next summit.
Carry le Rouet is the last of the semi-official Blue Coast calanques; the craggy landscape is beginning to flatten into the open plains that will eventually become the Camargue.
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