Details About Toulon

This fortress and modern town is the principal naval base of France: the headquarters of the Mediterranean fleet, with hundreds of sailors wandering the streets. With its beautiful harbor, it's surrounded by hills and crowned by forts. A large breakwater protects it on the east, and the great peninsula of Cap Sici is on the west. Separated by the breakwater, the outer roads are known as the Grande Rade and the inner roads the Petite Rade. On the outskirts is a winter resort colony. Like Marseille, the population of Toulon has grown because of the large influx of people from North Africa, especially French-speaking Algeria which was once a part of France before it broke away.