Access to the beaches of Marseille, as well as their immediate environment, will be limited to 400 visitors per day, Sunday June 26 and July 3 then every day from July 10 to August 21.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a first. Reservations to access two coves in Marseille on Sunday, on Sunday, June 23, on the Calanques National Park site, which limits this summer the frequentation of these weakened Mediterranean spaces this summer.
“The Calanque de Sugiton and the fallen stones is the victim of a very marked soil erosion phenomenon due to surfrequents. This phenomenon threatens the landscapes that we love so much and biodiversity”, indicates the national park of the national park of Calanques
To “protect the creeks”, access to the tiny Sugiton beaches and the fallen stones as well as their immediate environment will therefore be limited to 400 visitors per day, against 2,500 usually at the heart of summer, the Sundays June 26 and July 3 then every day from July 10 to August 21.
Reservations, free and limited to five people per file, can be made from three days before the desired date and until 6 p.m. the day before, on the site or the application of the Calanques National Park. Children under 3 do not need reservation. They are impossible on site and the same day.
fine of 68 euros
The park has hired since mid-May a large communication campaign, by display but also on social networks, to inform the public of these new reservation methods, a first in a French national park.
Agents will be present all summer along the access path to the Calanque, which winds in the garrigue, to inform visitors of the need to have a visit permit, before these n ‘Reach the control points of the QR Codes.
The reservation system, tested for the first time this summer by the Calanques National Park, may be required to evolve. “We want to believe that a large part of the public is sensitive to the fact that we want to preserve the environment,” said one of the park managers in mid-May.
The objective is to “limit the erosion of the pine forest, protect the soil and maintain the renewal capacity of this legendary landscape”, he added. And thus avoid “an irreversible process”, while “rebirth can take several centuries”. In the event of control in the reservation area, people who do not have a ticket will be sentenced to a fine of 68 euros.