Olympic Games 2024 in Paris: where and at what time to see the flame in Var and Toulon, route May 10

The Olympic torch relay in France will become very concrete this week after its scheduled arrival in Marseille on Wednesday 8 May. After a day in Marseille on Thursday 9 May, the torch will stop on Friday 10 May in Vars and Toulon. If you want to attend this defining moment of the 2024 Paris Olympics, here are the places you should go.

A total of 102 people will carry the flame on this day. It all starts at 8:10 am. Saint Raphaelwhere the flame will begin its journey through the department along the Corniche d’Or du Crepe de Boulourie to Grand Roux, where it will arrive at 9 am.

Then the flame will hang in the directionYer where from 10 am it will follow the Almanarra beach, famous for kitesurfing, before heading along the salt route and ending this sequence with the archaeological site of Olbia (10:25 am), an ancient city from the 4th century BC.

Then she will go to Brignoles (11:15 to 12:03), the city of the Counts of Provence, where it can be seen on the Boulevard Saint-Louis, the Pont Augustin, the Boulevard des Berges, before passing in front of the town hall and heading towards Jean-Jacques Marcel through the Avenue de Liberation and Avenue Marshal Foch.

The Olympic cauldron is lit at Place de la Liberté in Toulon.

Then head to Flassans-sur-Issoles (12:40 – 13:00), a city famous for its medieval past, where the relay will pass from the Louis the Great complex to the Bernard Gavoti Hall, passing in front of the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church.

The route will then go up La Seyne-sur-Mer (15:20-16:09), famous for its old shipyards, where the flame will run along the sea from Fort Balaguier to the Levant Bridge through the Fort de l’Aiguillette and the Philippe Giovannini embankment.

She will also make a stop at Salles-sur-Verdon (16:42-17:12), where Lake Sainte-Croix, the third largest lake in France, will be illuminated.

Finally the flames will unite Toulon with a one-and-a-half-hour stop (17:43 to 19:20) where it will depart from the 17th-century Chapel of Saint Margaret in the nearby town of La Garde before reaching Porte Saint-Louis, then the port and Place de la Liberté, where The celebration location will be free and open to everyone from 3:30 to 7:45 p.m. Entertainment will be provided before and after the arrival of the last torchbearer at 19:20 and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. A giant screen, host and DJ will be present.