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<\/a>The S\u00e9tois have made their living from the sea from time immemorial.\u00a0 When you visit, you can\u2019t avoid the sight of fishing boats along the quais in the main harbor.\u00a0 Nor can you miss all the restaurants that line the street facing the docks.\u00a0 Each one has a placard out front advertising the fresh fish and seafood that is available within.\u00a0 Sometimes we choose a cold meal of shellfish pulled from local waters.\u00a0 S\u00e8te is famous for its oysters.\u00a0 Of course, a warm meal such as a coquille St. Jacques is quite delicious too.<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a>You\u2019ll want to wash all that marine life down with a white wine. No, they don\u2019t make wine in S\u00e8te. You\u2019d have to drive a mile or two inland to see the vines. A local picpoul<\/em> is not very expensive but tastes just great on a sunny day in the south of France. And it seems as though every day is sunny in S\u00e8te.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u00e8te was established when the Canal du Midi was built in the 17th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Yes, there was a village there in Roman times, but the canal terminates in S\u00e8te, so commercial traffic reached the Mediterranean there.\u00a0 The canal is only used by pleasure boaters these days, but the port remains.\u00a0 It was a bombing target in World War II.\u00a0 The famous ship the Exodus left from S\u00e8te for Palestine with its weary Jewish survivors as passengers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, smaller cruise ships make it a port of call. In part, that\u2019s because of the attractiveness of the town itself. But also, it\u2019s an entryway into the Languedoc<\/a>. The medieval village of P\u00e9zenas<\/a> is less than an hour\u2019s drive away, as is the bustling city of B\u00e9ziers<\/a>. And, oh yes, there is wine tasting nearly everywhere inland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For fans of French popular music, S\u00e8te has a particular attraction. The singer-songwriter Georges Brassens was born and lived his life there. His songs express humor, a little sexiness and the heart and soul of France at a difficult time in its history. Brassen\u2019s love of S\u00e8te comes through in many of his songs as well. Just a bit away from the port there\u2019s a museum dedicated to his life. It\u2019s a worthwhile visit even if you don\u2019t know Brassens or even like French popular music. His biography is so intertwined with the village that to know one is to know the other. At the museum there are many examples of the lives the S\u00e9tois lived and of how they think of themselves to the current day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u00e8te is a good base for exploring the Languedoc. If somewhere else in the Languedoc is one\u2019s home base, then S\u00e8te makes a fine day trip. Either way, it\u2019s a small treasure to be cherished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nestled on the Mediterranean coast between Marseille and France’s Spanish border is a tiny village called S\u00e8te.\u00a0 It is a port for some cruise ships these days, but for the most part it is a simple fishing village with a lot of charm and history. The S\u00e9tois have made their living from the sea from … Continue reading S\u00e8te, France<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}