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, Southeastern
France
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Immediately to the west of Saint-Raphaël lies a larger and older town,
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the Co ...
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and his forces arrived by ship from
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'' in Paris, and landed at a fishing village that was the ''commune'' of Saint-Raphaël.
The coastal double-track rail link between Saint-Raphaël and
Nice
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, on August 15, 1944, it was one of the sites of a beach landing in
France
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St. Raphaël is located on the Côte d'Azur and enjoys a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters. The Mistral wind occurs, although sometimes the town is sheltered from this by the Massif des Maures and the Esterel. It is perhaps more exposed to the Levant (strong, easterly, wet) or the Sirocco (very strong, southerly, hot) air flows, but these occur rarely. The wind velocity record was established on 30 January 1986, with gusts of per hour.
Travel
Rail
The town's modern rail station is named Saint-Raphaël-Valescure and offers national, regional, and local train services:
* High-speed TGV and Ouigo trains - from Paris-Gare de Lyon (destination Nice)
* Night trains - from Paris-Gare d'Austerlitz (destination Nice)
* Lines 03 and 06 of TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - from Marseille-Gare Saint-Charles (destination Nice)
* TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - local stopping service to Cannes from Les Arcs
Air
International scheduled air passenger services are available at:
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Armenia
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Ghent
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, since 1972
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Tiberias
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, since 2007
Gallery
file:Saint_Raphael_Notre_Dame_de_la_Victoire.jpg, The Church ''Notre Dame de la Victoire''.
file:Saint_Raphael_Tour_1.jpg, The tower built into the old church San Rafeu.
file:Saint_Raphael_Tour_2.jpg, The medieval tower.
file:Saint_Raphael_Gare_routiere.jpg, The new central bus station adjacent to the railway station (Gare SNCF).
file:LIleDOrEnOr.JPG, L'Ile d'Or
See also
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Communes of the Var department
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The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025 ...