It is situated 2.5 km south-west of the Vieux-Port over the Corniche Kennedy, between the Catalans beach and Malmousque bay.

This small port / valley houses, on both sides of the bridge, about fifty fishermen's cabins and small traditional fishing boats, including some traditional pointu boats.

It takes its name from "l'auffe" ("auffo" in provençal dialect), or "alfa" (Stipa tenacissima), a sort of grass used to make rope, braids, and fishing nets.

In 1927, the President of France Gaston Doumergue inaugurated the monument to the dead of the East Army and the far lands, a 5 m tall bronze statue of a woman with arms raised to the sky, facing the Mediterranean Sea.

This portrait has in turn been replaced by an advert for a famous brand of sunglasses.