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On a score of km of coast, are succedent splits, beaches of sand, small ports and forest. The fabulous forest of Janas with a hundred km of paths for the walkers, the riders, the cyclists and runners. The famous spot of board with veil: Brutal Beach and Coudoulière. Polynesian dugouts in Brusc, and boats for the island of Embiez with its marine museum.
The visits and sites to be discovered are varied: dispersed hamlets, monticules or tops to benefit from splendid panoramas and many churches : The Vault Our Lady of Pepiole of VIeme, the Collegial one of St Pierre which is next to the Fort of Six-Fours, Our Lady of May in the summit meeting of the Cape Sicié which culminates with 360meters of altitude and which makes it possible to discover at the same time Blackcurrant cliffs in the west, the buttresses of the Alps in north, Toulon, St Mandrier, and the islands of Hyères in the east.
A little HISTORY
Human occupation of Six-Fours goes back to 40 000 years before J Christ. Vestiges were found in 1955 in a cave of the Cape Sicié.
The people of Phocée, originating in Asia Mineure colonized the principal points of the Mediterranean towards 600 before J.C. come from Massilia, they unloaded with Tauroentum (Le Brusc) and were established there with the shelter of the Embers islands (Embiez). Worried soon by the barbarians of the neighbourhoods, they had to be strengthened on the principal eminence of the region and to establish a defensive system based on a whole of six positions or stations strengthened (in Latin "Sex Fur, Sex Furni") from which the name would come from our city "Six-Fours".
These six stations ensured Phocéens then with the Romans the complete domination of a counter of 5350 hectares, including the solid mass of the Cape Sicié, the islands of Saint-Mandrier and Embiez. They could then be delivered to the trade on sea as with the culture of the grounds without fearing the incursions of the tribes close cut off into the mountains from Evenos or tapies at the bottom to the roads from Saint-Nazaire (Sanary).
Agricultural units (mansus) were installation, defended by country houses (braceria) who gave their name to many current districts. The victory of Malogineste, gained over Buckwheats by Six-Fournais in year 950 made it possible to find an excellent labour at a cheap rate .
The Community of Six-Furnaces, known starting from the Early middle ages under the name of Six Fors, was separate in the north of the Community of 0llioules (Oloes/Huile ) by a East-West line on the basis of the end of the roads of Toulon (Telo Martius) with Lagoubran , and leading to the river Reppe which it skirted to its mouth close to the small hamlet of Sinners of Saint-Nazaire, occupied a long time by Buckwheats. The community belonged then to the Abbots of Saint-Victor of Marseille. The village, at the top of the hill, was girds of two, then three solids ramparts with the shelter of which the neighbouring populations at the time of the multiple invasions of the barbarians took refuge coming from North, or of Buckwheats coming from the sea never this frightening citadel, protected by nature and the value from its inhabitants, was not taken by storm.
From 1486, date of the fastening of Provence in France, leaving mainly their wives and their children the care of the cultures, Six-Fournais had a maritime vocation and directed themselves towards the naval building work in Seyne (Segno, plain marshy where grew in abundance a called watery plant "Siagno" ) who separated from the metropolis of Six-Furnaces in 1657. The community then counted 4800 inhabitants for 12000 in Toulon.
In XVIlleme century, the inhabitants went down gradually in the plain and one can say that the village is established definitively where one fished "rana" ( la rainette ) n Raynier or Reynier, since 1800. It was little after the upheavals brought by the Revolution during which the Bonaparte captain was wounded on the soil of Six-Furnaces by leading the victorious attack of the fortress crowning the peninsula of Balaguier.
In 1859, the railroad arrived to Toulon. In 1875, the construction of a strong important soldier gave the blow of thanks to the old village. Only the Collegial one is saved with the part known as "the Village" on the slope is strengthened of 1578 to 1633 (Door of Ollioules). But the church Sainte-Marie de Cortine and the highest part of the city will disappear forever, with its castle, called "Cortina" of Latin cortina, tripod on which one returned oracles of the gods .