Culture & History on the Côte d'Azur
Culture & History
Monaco
Grimaldi family at the Côte d’Azur
The Grimaldi family name has unmistakable associations with Italian ancestry, appearing in an astonishing number of geographical place names, historic buildings and famous events on the French Riviera.
Vence
Villa Alexandrine in Vence
La Villa Alexandrine, in Vence, is a unique Belle Époque architecture, which today houses the local tourist office and the museum of the Polish writer, Witold Gombrowicz.
Historie
The Mistral – southern France’s wild wind with deadly force
The mistral is as fundamental a part of Provence as the sunny weather, and it affects most of the ...
Historie, History
The story behind the the wash-houses
Almost every French city has a washhouse, but what’s their history in French culture and what started the mass-construction of these in the mid-19th century?