The Blackcurrant Creeks in Marseilles

Most of the Creeks are located in the municipality of the city of Marseille (8th and 9th districts). Only the creek of Port Miou is the territory of the town of Cassis.

The Calanques and the Riou archipelago form a classified site for the land since 1975, and since 1976 for the marine band of 500 meters. The surface of the entire site is approximately 7200 hectares land and 5585 marine 2207 [5].

In the course of 2007, the NFB and the French Federation of the mountain and rock climbing (Departmental Committee 13) have developed a new method of access to climbing routes Candelle the site, in order to "reconcile the practice of climbing to the protection of outstanding natural environments"