The harbour, the Place des Lices and the beaches of the peninsula – the tables, the hotels and the summer of Saint-Tropez, in one guide.
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In this guide
Every table and hotel the MICHELIN inspectors have chosen in Saint-Tropez – 4 starred, 13 more restaurants and 16 hotels – on one map, with our own stories as we write them.
For Halloween only, the shutters stay closed and a guide's torch reveals Émile Ollivier's house room by room; free, ten people per tour, tours from 13:15 to 17:30 – book at chateaudelamoutte@ville-sainttropez.fr or 04 94 55 90 26.
Back in town, walk out past the 15th-century Tour Vieille at La Ponche, where the yellow-marked coastal path begins, towards the seaside cemetery and the Plage des Graniers; the cemetery is open until 17:30 from September to April.
Up to the first floor of the Hôtel Sube on quai Suffren: an English bar with a fireplace and ship models, looking down on the yachts; open daily until 31 December.
Chef Simon Pinault's Mediterranean cooking of local vegetables and the day's fish, by candlelight in the hotel where Sagan and Bardot stayed; open daily until 3 January 2027, evening menu €120 (Gault&Millau listed).
The Provençal market fills the square under the plane trees every Tuesday and Saturday morning all year: fruit and vegetables, fish, clothes and things for the house.
The covered fish market is open Thursday to Saturday, 08:00–13:00; next door, today is the last morning of the season for the Place aux Herbes fruit, vegetable and flower stalls (07:00–12:45).
Family cooking in a pedestrian street of the old town – Mediterranean dishes and fresh homemade pasta, with a €25 lunch and dinner menu; open daily all year.
Drive out to the Plage des Canoubiers and follow the yellow-marked coastal path past La Madrague towards the Pointe du Rabiou and La Moutte; the full loop is 12 km and 3h45–4h, so turn back whenever you like.
On the Bouillabaisse beach at the entrance to town, which the tourist office calls the best spot to watch the sun go down behind the Maures; the family-run beach restaurant is open all year.
The gendarmerie of the Louis de Funès films, with the rebuilt brigade offices, film clips and Bardot's dressing room; open daily 10:00–17:00 from 1 November, free under 12.
Nearly 35,000 butterflies and Dany Lartigue's studio in a village house on rue Etienne Berny; open 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–17:00 today, its last day before the winter closure – €2, free under 12.
The little boat leaves from in front of the Café de Paris at 14:00 and 15:15, weather permitting, for a tour of Saint-Tropez from the water; adults €14, children 5–12 €8 – call +33 (0)6 07 09 21 27 to check out of season.
✱ MICHELIN star · Bib Gourmand: good cooking at a fair price · ◆ selected in the Guide · € to €€€€: the Guide's own price bands, from «on a budget» to «spare no expense».
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Sunset and drinks
Where to drink
A red terrace on the port, an English bar with a fireplace, a piano bar on the Place des Lices and the sunset at La Bouillabaisse.
A family-run beach restaurant of more than 25 years facing a 270° sunset over the gulf – the tourist office calls the Bouillabaisse beach the best spot to watch the sun go down behind the Maures.
Up on the first floor of the Hôtel Sube: a mahogany English bar with a fireplace and ship models recalling Les Voiles, and a view over the endless dance of yachts in the port.
Sources: the Saint-Tropez tourist office and the bars' and hotels' own pages, read 27 October 2026.
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Where to stay
The hotels worth the trip
The MICHELIN Guide's Keys first – its mark for hotels with character, service and a sense of place – then the rest of its selection and the ones we would book ourselves.
The wildest side of Saint-Tropez: villa walls give way to rocky points, coves and the long sandy bays of La Moutte and Les Salins.
Past Plage des Canoubiers and La Madrague, Pointe du Rabiou and the Cap Saint-Pierre, with its Napoleonic battery, The beaches of La Moutte and Les Salins
Open all year, free (tourist office; Côte d'Azur France).
Yellow waymarks; mostly by the sea, with rocky stretches.
Start: Parking along the Plage des Canoubiers (Canebiers), about 2.5 km from the village, before the sailing school
Straight out of the old town and along the sea, without a car in sight, to a protected dune beach at the tip of the peninsula.
Past La Ponche and the Tour Vieille, The seaside cemetery below the Citadelle and the Plage des Graniers, Coves and pines along the shore to the Plage des Salins
Open all year, free (tourist office).
Some passages cross granite slabs that are slippery after rain (Ryo guide).
Start: The end of the La Ponche quarter, where the road stops at the first coastal-path waymark
Saint-Tropez on foot: fishermen's houses, defensive towers, a cemetery with one of the finest views on the coast and the Citadelle above it all.
Past The Tour Vieille (15th century) and the Tour du Portalet guarding La Ponche, The seaside cemetery facing the gulf, with the graves of Émile Ollivier's wife Blandine Liszt, Roger Vadim and, since 2025, Brigitte Bardot, The 17th-century Citadelle and its ramparts
All year. Seaside cemetery: September–April 08:00–17:30, May–August 08:00–19:30.
Pavements and steps in the old town; the Citadelle museum is open until 1 November, then again from 19 December.
A short climb from the hill village to the windmills on the ridge, with the whole Gulf of Saint-Tropez below.
Past Ramatuelle cemetery, where the actor Gérard Philipe is buried, Wooded hills above the village, The Moulins de Paillas and a panorama over the Saint-Tropez coast
All year. The Moulin de Paillas itself opens for free visits on Saturdays and Sundays 10:30–12:30 until 1 November 2026 (cancelled in bad weather).
Recommended by Côte d'Azur France as a first walk with children or for a picnic with a view of the gulf.
Sources: the Saint-Tropez tourist office, Côte d'Azur France, the Grimaud tourist office, Provence 7, Visorando and the Ryo walking guide, read 27 October 2026. Coastal paths close in rough seas – check before you set off.
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With kids
Saint-Tropez for children
Beaches, museums, boats and markets in town – and karting, bowling, mini-golf and a garden by the sea a short drive away.
A small sandy cove at the foot of the Citadelle's southern slopes, with clear, shaded water and the coastal path running past – the closest proper beach to the old town.
The 17th-century hexagonal keep holds a lively maritime museum about Tropezian sailors who travelled the world, and the ramparts give one of the best views over the bay.
1 October–1 November and 19–31 December 2026: 10:00–17:30 (last admission 30 minutes before closing); closed in between.
The real gendarmerie from the Louis de Funès films, with the brigade's offices rebuilt as they were, a life-size bronze of de Funès, film clips and the dressing rooms of Brigitte Bardot and Romy Schneider.
Daily: 1 September–31 October 10:00–18:00; 1 November–31 December 10:00–17:00 (closed 25 December); 2 January–31 March 10:00–17:00.
Nearly 35,000 butterflies in a village house – among them the rare Mercantour Black Apollo and exotic species from Amazonia and the Solomon Islands – plus a garden and Dany Lartigue's studio.
8 October–1 November 2026: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–17:00.
Play equipment for small children in the shade of the hundred-year-old plane trees on the Place des Lices – handy between the market and a game of pétanque.
Émile Ollivier's four-hectare park of eucalyptus, Phoenix and coconut palms, where woodpeckers and bats are protected; the château offers small-group guided tours every afternoon and a children's library.
The shutters stay closed and the guide's torch is the only light, revealing Émile Ollivier's house room by room – a spooky, small-group way into a real Second Empire home.
Friday 30 October 2026; tours at 13:15, 13:30, 14:15, 14:30, 15:15, 15:30, 16:15, 16:30, 17:15 and 17:30, ten people per tour.
Boat trip · Ages Child fare 5–12; free under 5Le Brigantin II
Saint-Tropez seen from the sea on a short trip from the old port, on a boat refitted for its 20th anniversary with plush cushions and a collector's boarding pass – plus sunset cruises.
Departures daily except in bad weather at 11:00, 12:15, 14:00, 15:15 and 16:30 (extra 17:30 sailing in July and August).
Christophe, a born Tropezian, gives a funny live commentary in French, English and German past the celebrities' villas and film locations of the Baie des Canoubiers.
The green boats of the gulf: a year-round cruise past the villas of the Baie des Canoubiers, or simply the ferry across to Sainte-Maxime – the town seen from the water.
The Baie des Canoubiers 'celebrity villas' cruise runs all year; Sainte-Maxime–Saint-Tropez shuttles run all year.
The recently renovated covered fish market, where fishermen lay out the night's catch on marble slabs – sea bream, bass, red mullet, scorpion fish, octopus and moray eel.
All year, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 08:00–13:00; free.
A small daily market of fruit, vegetables and flowers, with a cheese producer and a wine merchant, in a picturesque square beside the covered fish hall.
The big Provençal market under the plane trees: seasonal fruit and vegetables, fish and seafood, clothes, decorative things and souvenirs – and a playground right beside it.
Two small beaches one after the other below the old fishermen's houses, just past the Tour Vieille – the oldest corner of Saint-Tropez, a few minutes' walk from the port.
Leisure park · Ages Two-seater karts with an adult from age 4; children's and adult kartsGrimaud Karting Loisir
An 800-metre track with timing on a giant screen, karts for every age (including adapted handikarts), a children's play area and a terrace bar for the parents.
Open every day all year (January: Wednesdays and weekends only).
Gilles Clément's garden takes you through the Mediterranean-climate landscapes of the world – California, Chile, South Africa, Australia – down to the sea, with family activities, an underwater trail in summer and a garden café.
Open every day all year from 09:30 (closed 25 December); closes 17:30 in November–March, 18:30 in April–June and September–October, 19:30 in July–August.
Sources: the Saint-Tropez tourist office, the Golfe de Saint-Tropez and Grimaud tourist offices, Côte d'Azur France and the places' own pages, read 27 October 2026. Drive times from the town centre without traffic. Check seasons and ages with the place before you go.
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The atlas
Saint-Tropez at a glance
Every restaurant, hotel, sight, beach and shop we know of – 308 places, each with its own page. Choose a quartier, or a kind of place.
Photo: lukaszimilena/Adobe Stock
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The directory
Every place in Saint-Tropez
308 places, each with its own page – the six nearest the centre of each kind are here; every one of them is in the directory, A to Z.
Story · Metro Mode recommendsEvasion Riviera – the couple who make Old Antibes and Saint-Tropez feel like homeThomas and his wife run Evasion Riviera: homes in Old Antibes, a villa on the Cap and flats in Saint-Tropez. Metro Mode analysed the market and chose them.
EatLa Palmeraie – One MICHELIN Star Beneath Valmer's Centenary Palms
EatLa Petite Plage – Eric Frechon's beach hut on the Old Port
EatJardin Tropezina – Jean-François Piège's garden on Pampelonne sand
EatByblos Beach – lunch on Pampelonne, Saint-Tropez style
EatLa Part des Anges – Saint-Tropez's angels' share of bistronomy
EatIl Giardino – Byblos' Italian garden table in Saint-Tropez
✱✱✱Three MICHELIN StarsLa Vague d'OrCreative · Saint-TropezRead the story 
✱One MICHELIN StarColetteModern Cuisine · Saint-TropezRead the story 
✱One MICHELIN StarLa TerrasseMediterranean Cuisine · Saint-TropezRead the story ✱✱One MICHELIN StarArnaud Donckele & Maxime Frédéric at Louis VuittonMediterranean Cuisine · Saint-TropezThe address 
One MICHELIN KeyArev St. Tropez24 rooms · Saint-TropezRead the story 
One MICHELIN KeyLa Ponche21 rooms · Saint-Tropez
◆In the MICHELIN GuideAlthoff Villa Belrose40 rooms · Saint-Tropez
◆In the MICHELIN GuideByblos Saint-Tropez86 rooms · Saint-Tropez
◆In the MICHELIN GuideHôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez90 rooms · Saint-Tropez
◆In the MICHELIN GuideHôtel des Lices41 rooms · Saint-Tropez
◆In the MICHELIN GuideLa Tartane27 rooms · Saint-Tropez
No. 1Grimaud – the hilltop village above the Gulf of Saint-TropezEveryone knows the lagoon town of Port Grimaud. Fewer climb to the village that gave it its name: a ruined castle, a windmill and medieval lanes looking down over the gulf.Read 
No. 2Gassin – the watchtower over the Bay of Saint-TropezGassin, 200 m above the Bay of Saint-Tropez: ring-wall views to the islands, the 29 cm Androuno alley, a chapel from 1090 and dinner on Place deï Barri.Read 
No. 3Ramatuelle and Pampelonne – the hilltop village and the beach belowRamatuelle and Pampelonne: the hill village that fought with beehives, the 4.5 km beach that is not in Saint-Tropez, Club 55, Cap Camarat and the vineyards.Read 
No. 4Saint-Tropez out of season – the town when the yachts have goneSaint-Tropez in November: the market on Place des Lices, the Musée de l'Annonciade and Signac's painters, La Ponche, the citadel and the town's real history.Read 
