Saint-Tropez

Saint-Tropez is a commune in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in southern France, on the French Riviera, about 68 kilometres west of Nice and 100 kilometres east of Marseille. It sits on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, a narrow body of water that runs north toward Sainte-Maxime beneath the Massif des Maures. The town was a military stronghold and fishing village until the early twentieth century, and it was the first town on its coast to be liberated in the Second World War during Operation Dragoon in August 1944. From the late 1950s it became an internationally known seaside resort, drawing artists of the French New Wave and the Ye-ye music movement, followed by jet setters and tourists. Its resident population was recorded as 3,582 in 2023. The name comes from the early Christian martyr Saint Torpes, and the local festival Les Bravades commemorates the town's militia.