St Honorat
About 700m/765yds from Ste-Marguerite, and linked by ferry, lies the Ile St-Honorat, 1.5km/1mi long and up to 400m/438yds wide, and also covered with pine woods. On a tongue of land in the south lie the monastery buildings which were once fortified and, it is believed, were a foundation of St Honoratus, Bishop of Arles, who died in 429.
In the south by the sea stands the impressive Château St-Honorat, the tower built in the 11th C as a refuge against pirates and later altered; there are beautiful cloisters on the ground floor and on the first floor, and extensive views.
In the south by the sea stands the impressive Château St-Honorat, the tower built in the 11th C as a refuge against pirates and later altered; there are beautiful cloisters on the ground floor and on the first floor, and extensive views.
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There were formerly seven chapels scattered about the island, but today the only two remaining are the Chapelle St-Sauveur, an Early Christian smooth-walled building, with a diameter of almost 10m/33ft, and the Chapelle de la Trinité, an early medieval cemetery chapel.
