The Repentance fort is a buried defensive structure. Completed in 1893, this dreadful artillery battery, done in two different structure, allowed its occupants to cover the channel. Its function was essential to the island defence. Closed to the public.
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Since 1995 an orthodox monastic community settled by the national park restore the fort. Renamed “Sainte-Marie du Désert” monastery. Devoted to Mary of Egypt, this hermitage is a dependence of the monastery “Saint-Antoine-Le-Grand” (Drome). After 40 years of community life in this monastery, Father Séraphin settled in Porquerolles in what was once the fort of Repentance, to live there as a hermit according to the ideal proposed by Saint Cassian of Marseilles (5th century): "The perfection of...
Services
Not open to the public
Location
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Spoken languages
Environment
- Forest location
- Waterside
- On an island
