VOYAGE AUTOUR DE NICE

Voyage around the Nice: Visit out of Nice is another charm!

photo 1 Rochetta Nervina

To visit Nice, it is not only just to see Nice, in fact, the region is so many too see. Nice is the last big city next to the border of Italy and France, also Monaco. It is a great advantage to visit 3 countries together.

1. Villages perchés de la Cote d’Azur

Old highland villages

Near Nice, there are several small villages that you can visit within an half day, or one day’s trip, so called highland villages, like EZE, Tourrette-Levens, Carros, Saint –Jeannet,le Broc- etc.

Photo 2 Valley de Valliage Perché

2. Villages typiques de la Roya

Photo 3 Tende

In the summer, there is a special train "Le train des merveilles", from which road, you could visit several villages which are on the ancient road from Nice to Torino, the direct way,in the past,from Provence to Piemont, Italy. The road is climbing the mountain, up to 1000 meters altitude. You can visit many beautiful villages, like Peille, Sospel,la Brigue, Breil sur Roya, and arrive at Tende where you can visit an prehistorical museum dedicated to the civilization of human peoples painters on stone in the high valley of the merveilles photo 4 painting of cave

3. Villages Medievaux en Ligurie Medieval Village in Liguria Italy

photo 5 Dolceacqua

One advantage of Nice, so close to Italy, is,within an hour's drive, you passed 3 countries, France, Monaco, then Italy. Many people know the Friday's market in Ventimiglia, as wel as the Casino of San Remo, but we discovered several mountain roads to reach some very unique medieval villages, like, Dolceàcqua, Apricale, Bajado, Pigna, or Rochetta Nerviana.

The village of the photo 1, 6 and 7, is called Rochetta Nerviana, a non well-known one in the travel guide, but it is magnificient, if you visit there, you feel surroundingly by an extremely romantic valley,with a very nice resturant where you could eat very hearty family food, so called "casa lingua" in Italien . The Ligurian villages are so charming, but so hided, we spent year after year to discover them one by one, and decide to edit a blog for Highroad Alta Via of Liguria.

Photo 6, & 7 Rochetta Nervina

If you want to read more detail, please visit our another blog especially for Italy, "Voyage the Backdoor of Italy", address is lelavoyage.blogspot.com.

Of course, we have prepared all the document, maps, and detail which is based on our yearly adventures for the guest of LA SOURCE.

Photo 3 and photo 4 are from the official site de Tende, please refer http://www.merveillestende.com/
Others photos are from our voyages