The ancient stone steps descend among overflowing vegetation, under a canopy of flowering oaks and bougainvillae that barely allows glimpses of blue. In the silence, the gulls' garrits signal the proximity of the sea. Which shows up suddenly, at the bottom of the last descent, with a breathtaking sight: rocks emerging in front of a shore set between land and sea. beach that immediately becomes a passion. As it did for the British in the 1900s.