An explosion of scarlet rocks, Oporto with Galeria, a landscape born of the rocks, water and life.
In 1975, its double vocation made a pionnière of it: the natural reserve of Scandola was the first of France to cover the fields maritime and terrestrial. It with step ceased since, to illustrate itself. The Council of Europe to him with decreed the diploma of catégoris A of the natural reserves of Europe, for its exemplary management.
The managers of the reserve it are fixed three objectives: a role of academy of the natural environment, observatory for the animals and the plants, of laboratory to study the species, balances and their evolutions. Those which are likely to embark aboard high-speed motorboat of the reserve, will inevitably share the enthusiasm of the men who work there. Four times per day, one two come to be ensured of the respect from the regulation of damping and fishing, and if need be, to inform the yachtmen on these 24 kms of coasts, true natural monument, red cathedral and pink built by sheaves of fire and lava incandescent, here are two hundred and fifty million D " years.
The crested cormorants fly over the high-speed motorboat, the dolphins approach some. The seal-monks, who were numerous in the caves, did not return yet, but the reserve hopes well to reintroduce the species. With its rhyolithe red, its marbled rocks, its air of mineral palate, its “pavement” of algae limestones, the reserve of Scandola is undoubtedly one of most beautiful in the world, can be most beautiful, it is registered besides with the world inheritance of UNESCO.