After ten years of existence, the institution limits access to two of its most famous sites to stop its overfreaching.
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Created on April 18, 2012, the Callan National Park between, ten years later, in a new era. On the institution side, his historical director, François Bland, leaves his duties and see a designated successor by the summer. As for its president, the departmental advisor The Republicans Didier Réault, he will be forced to leave an armchair he has been occupying since 2013, if he is – as he has the ambition – elected deputy in the e / sup> District of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Public side, the summer of 2022 will be that of an even more prominent revolution. That of the end of free access to the terrestrial sites of this park of 53,000 hectares, located on the edge of the Mediterranean on the municipalities of Marseille, Cassis and the Ciotat.
Saturday, April 9, as every year, the classics Access to motor vehicle access properly come into effect. First for weekends and holidays, then, from Wednesday 1 e July for every day of the week. But from the end of June, the only peri-urban national park of France will innovate with the establishment of a bought bought and a quota of visitors on two of its emblematic Calanques: Sugiton and its neighbor of the fallen stones. The weekends of June 25 and 26 as well as July 2 and 3 will test this unpublished device. Which will become daily from July 9th to August 21th.
Three million visitors a year
The creation of this “Visit Permit”, free but unavoidable, is the culmination of a long process of reflection of the park bodies, which seek, through a “bouquet of measures” to initiate the decree of Estimated attendance at three million visitors a year.
In December 2020, after a summer season marked by an unprecedented tourist explosion – explained in particular by the travel restrictions abroad due to COVID-19 – the institution launched a so-called “starting” policy. touching his communication.
Although it remained under the 2020 records, the summer of 2021 was still marked by attendance peaks, close to the 10,000 daily visitors on the coast. The Calanques de Sormiou, Morgiou or sugiton, seeing an average of two thousand people a day. “At these levels, visitors are forced to settle on the seaside coast, to overflow on natural environments, creating major trampling and erosion problems, destroying soils, natural habitats and their natural regeneration capacity “Emphasizes the park.
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