Cap Juby, Aéropostale Stopover
In October 1927, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry arrived at Cap Juby — present-day Tarfaya — to take charge of the Aéropostale stopover. He was 27. He would remain fourteen months in this remote outpost between the Sahara and the Atlantic.
"I have been at Cap Juby for a few days. Here the desert is admirable. It is a fantastic land, all red and gold."
The Seeds of The Little Prince
Historians and biographers agree: it is in Tarfaya that the first intuitions are born that would lead, fifteen years later, to The Little Prince. The Sahara stars he observes from the Spanish fort terrace, the encounters with nomadic children, the solitude that leads to the essential — all of this would crystallize in his 1943 masterpiece.
The Memorial Today
A restored hangar now houses the Aéropostale Museum, with navigation charts, period photographs and documents on the legendary line. In front of the museum, a rusted metal statue depicts the Little Prince sitting on his asteroid, gazing toward the Atlantic.