VLOG# Fréjus by Night Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur France - HD 1080p
Fréjus (pronounced [fʁeʒys] Listen) is a French commune located in the Var in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Capital of Fréjurès [What?], It is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, at the mouth of the Argens and Reyran, it is the chief town of the canton of Fréjus, the associated seat of the diocese, a seaside resort and tourist of the Côte d'Azur, a city of Art and History and co-founder of the association of Cities and Crafts of Art.
Originally named Forum Julii, the (public) place of Julius (implied Caesar) 2, Roman city founded in 49 BC. AD to oppose the omnipotence of Massilia, then colony wanted by Auguste in 27 BC. BC under the name of Colonia Octavanorum to welcome the veterans of the Legio VIII Augusta. Equipped under Tiberius, it declined until the fourth century, the date of the constitution of the bishopric, second in France after Lyon. City home of the triumph of Charles V in 1536, Var agricultural pole since the Middle Ages, garrison town since the sixteenth century, naval air base of Roland Garros in 1913, hit in 1959 by the cataclysm dam Malpasset, Fréjus is with the commune of Saint-Raphaël, the economic pole, cultural and tourist of the east Var and the site of the greatest concentration French of ancient vestiges after Arles.
Its inhabitants are called Fréjusiens3 or Forojuliens in French, Frejulencs in Provençal according to the classical norm and Frejulen according to the Mistralian norm.
Fréjus is the 4th city of the Var with a population of 52,532 inhabitants (2012) 4, in the heart of the Var Estérel Mediterranean agglomeration community, 2nd department with 107,547 inhabitants (2011) 5.