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Where to Stay in Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Hyères is the oldest resort of the French Riviera, a palm-shaded town on the Var coast below a medieval hill town.
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Where to stay in Hyères
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Where you stay in Hyères turns on the old town or the sea. The lanes around the medieval quarter keep the castle, the shops, and the palm avenues within a walk, and staying in the old town suits anyone here for the history. The old streets climb to the ruins.
Rooms sit near the walls. Down toward the beaches and the Giens peninsula, the town runs down to the sea and the islands. A room by the shore trades the old lanes for the sand, the salt pans, and the boats to the Îles d'Or.
The blue sea opens past the edge. If you want the old town, stay on the hill; if you want the beach, take a room by the sea. Neither choice puts the medieval quarter of Hyères far away.
About Hyères
Hyères is the palm city of the Riviera.
What is Hyères known for?
On the coast of the Var below its old hilltop town, it was the first winter resort of the Côte d'Azur, drawing writers and royalty to its mild air, and it keeps a medieval old town under a ruined castle, avenues of tall palms, a modernist villa, and the golden Îles d'Or offshore. The blue sea spreads to the south. Palms and sun mark the town.
What are the main landmarks in Hyères?
The medieval old town climbs the hill above Hyères. Its steep lanes of old houses and gateways rise to the ruined castle over the sea, the emblem of the town, below the walls. A modernist villa crowns the slope.
The Villa Noailles, a landmark of new architecture, stands among the gardens, while the palm avenues, the salt pans, and the Îles d'Or mark the coast around Hyères.
What is the history of Hyères?
Hyères looks back to a Greek and medieval past. The Greeks and Romans held the coast here, and in the middle ages a walled town grew on the hill under the castle of the lords of Fos, guarding the shore and the salt pans below. Then the winter visitors came.
In the nineteenth century Hyères became the first winter resort of the Riviera, where the English and the sick came for the mild air, and villas and palm-lined avenues rose below the old town. Writers and royalty followed the sun. Queen Victoria and Robert Louis Stevenson stayed among its palms, and in the last century a modernist villa rose above the town for the patrons of new art.
The islands drew their own visitors. Offshore the Îles d'Or, green and wild, became a haven for sailors and walkers, and Port-Cros grew into a park of the sea. The old town still climbs to the castle.
Hyères keeps its palms and its islands on the Riviera.
Where is Hyères?
Hyères lies on the coast of the Var in southern France, at the eastern end of the Toulon roads. The town spreads from a hill crowned by its old quarter down to the sea, past salt pans and palm groves, out to the Giens peninsula and the Îles d'Or. Low hills rise inland.
The sea spreads south past the islands.
What is the climate of Hyères?
Warm Mediterranean weather settles over Hyères, palms and mimosa included. Hot, dry summers and mild, bright winters cross the coast, and the town is one of the sunniest in France, with palms and mimosa in flower much of the year. Sea winds cool the shore in summer.
The gardens stay green through the winter.
How do you get to Hyères?
Hyères lies on the Var coast, east of Toulon. Trains and the motorway run to it from Toulon and Marseille along the coast, and an airport lies by the town, while boats sail out to the Îles d'Or. Buses link Hyères with the other towns along the Var shore.
Most arrive by road from Toulon.
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Updated September 2026