😍 Sète is a major port city in the southeast French region of Occitanie. It's bordered by the Étang de Thau, a biodiverse saltwater lagoon. Across a narrow isthmus, Sète's Mediterranean coast is lined with sandy beaches. The top of Mont St Clair offers views of the city, known as "Venice of the Languedoc" for its canal network. The Musée Paul Valéry has displays on the history of Sète, plus an art collection.
Experience Sète with its canals lined by colorful buildings and crossed by drawbridges and swing bridges. Enjoy Watching the bustling trade port, old port, marina, colorful Catalan boats, La Pointe Courte, the real fishermen's neighborhood and the Quartier Haut which feels like Southern Italy.
In the 1850s, fishermen from Gaeta and Cetara, villages on the Amalfi coast near Naples, left Italy, driven by the need to find a better life: they settled in the South of France, particularly in Sète and Grau du Roi.
In Sète, water is everywhere. The activity linked to the sea is essential for the local economy, thanks to its port, the first for fishing in the Mediterranean, thanks to its fish auction, and its fleet of tuna boats and trawlers, and also thanks to small-scale fishing with nets, at sea and in the pond.
In Sète, the jousts were born with the port on July 29th 1666. An old maritime tradition, therefore, a living culture itself, which has its own codes, its own vocabulary, its rituals, its music. Perched on the tintaine at the top of the boats, equipped with a spear and a bulwark, the players all aspire to win the Saint-Louis, the most prestigious of tournaments. An extremely spectacular sport where family transmission is the order of the day. Seven societies and a school of jousting help to keep this tradition firmly rooted. From mid-June to early September, beyond folklore and tradition, the jousting reflects the soul of the Sète people.
FOODIE HERITAGE: Don't Forget to satisfy your tastebuds with fishermen's dishes😊
Sète's specialities come from local, Catalan, Italian and Spanish fishermen getting together at the port. Tielle is the most famous one! On the Quai de la Marine you'll find countless seafood restaurants where you can sample wonderful shellfish from Thau Lake. Mussels and stuffed squid, macaronade (meaty macaroni), cuttlefish in rouille and more..
Nuestra cocina es sobre todo una cocina de pescadores que se ha enriquecido con los conocimientos culinarios de los catalanes, genoveses, napolitanos, españoles y pieds-noirs que se han establecido en Sète a lo largo de los años.
00:00 Introduction
01:17 La Pointe Courte
08:48 Étang de Thau
10:08 Pont Maréchal Foch
10:31 Pont Sadi-Carnot (movable bridge)
10:58 Chemin du Mas Rousson
11:20 Mont Saint-Clair
15:13 Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette
19:22 Place du Pouffre (City Square)
20:06 Église Décanale Saint-Louis
24:25 Place Aristide Briand (City Park)
26:43 Pont de la Civette
29:32 Joutes Nautiques (water Jousting)
30:21 Rue de Tunis (Street-art Frescoes)
34:17 Pont de Pierre
35:02 Quai Philippe Régy
36:32 Quai Général Durand
39:15 Quai Maximin Licciardi
48:00 Gare de Séte (SNCF)
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Sète Location: goo.gl/maps/sGQyMDsKwx1M8Pgr5
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