Sainte-Marguerite Island

The Sainte-Marguerite is the biggest of the Lerins Islands, about a large portion of a mile seaward from the French Riviera town of Cannes. The island is roughly 3 kilometers 1.9 miles long East to West and 900 meters 3,000 feet over.

The island is most well known for its post jail the Fort Royal, in which the alleged Man in the Iron Mask was held in the seventeenth century. The island is first known to have been possessed amid Roman circumstances, when it was known by the name Lero. The island was likely renamed in medieval circumstances by crusaders, who manufactured a house of prayer to Saint Margaret of Antioch on the island.