Sanary-on-sea

Sanary-on-Sea (in Occitan Of Provence: Sant Nari de Mar according to the traditional standard or Sant Nàri de Mar according to the Norme mistralienne) is a Seaside resort of Provence, located in the VAr at 13 km of Toulon and 49 km of Marseilles.

Its name of origin was into of Provence Sant Nazari then Sant Nari . Into French, one had translated this name by Saint-Nazaire , then by Sanary in 1890 (according to of Provence the Sant Nari ), and finally by Sanary-on-Sea in 1923 (from there, Sant Nari de Mar into of Provence).

Raising in the beginning of the territory of Ollioules, the lord created there at the beginning of the 16th century a hamlet under the name of " Sanct Nazari ", by authorizing some families to be established close to an old still visible medieval tower. It is about the middle of the same century that the port was built to offer an outlet to the trade ollioulais; it had to be dug to allow the damping of the ships. It is only in 1688, at the end of long procedures, that Sanary obtained Louis XIV his separation of with Ollioules. The city knows a strong growth since the years 1980-1990 on the tourist level.

Sanary is affirmed like a place pleasant and snuffed in the West VAr, while always refusing its bringing together with the Urban community of Toulon but by accepting all the same an essential inter-commune collaboration in the form of SIVU near the commune of Bandol.

The mayor in exercise in 2007 is Ferdinand Bernhard, dentist (UDF).

Places and monuments

Vault Our-Lady-of-Pity: of this vault, built in 1560 on a hillock, in the West of the city, one discovers a pretty sight on bay of Sanary, with the background the hills of Toulon, and the coast until the archipelago of Embiez, behind which the heights of the Cape Sicié are drawn up. It is in this vault that Nicolas Vimar was baptized.
Church Saint Nazaire : built at the end of the 19th century by Michel Pasha, to replace the old church of Romance style of the 16th century, in a néo-medieval style.

Turn " romane" : actually later, it remains, enclosed in a group of buildings which surround it.

Sanary-the-Germans

After 1933 and the arrival of Hitler to the capacity it is per tens that German intellectuals took refuge in what was then a small deadened fishing port, where the life was much less expensive than in Paris. Bertolt Brecht, Egon Erwin Kisch, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Joseph Roth, Franz Werfel, Arnold Zweig was found there. “If one lives in the exile, wrote Hermann Kesten, the coffee becomes at the same time the house of family, the fatherland, the church and the Parliament, a desert and a place of pilgrimage, the cradle of the illusions and the cemetery… In the exile, the coffee is the only place where the life continues. ”

After the declaration of war of 1939 the French government pushed the nonsense until making intern these refugees in camps: one wanted to see in them only Germans. After the Release the small town, which had been called “Sanary-the-Germans” wanted all to forget and it is only in the Nineties that German and Austrian tourism tried to find the traces of the large artists who had lived there. One ended up revealing a plate and arranging tourist routes.

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