Roosted over a verdant slope 15 minutes from the ocean, the medieval Town of Saint Paul de Vence appreciates an uncommon all encompassing perspective that extends from the drift to the pre-snow capped mountains.

The atmosphere is normally Mediterranean, warm and mild with loads of daylight. The winters can once in a while be frosty.

The town has a populace of 3,548 yet just 300 individuals live in the town itself. The others live in the houses and extravagant manors scattered all through the valley and on the statures.

A story told in stones could be its informal saying. Extremely all around protected old stones!

An ordinarily Provençal town, Saint-Paul is finished surrounded by its sixteenth century defenses worked by request of King Francis I.

Touching base in Saint Paul you initially go over the prestigious auberge La Colombe d'Or, which has had a pleiad of craftsmen as visitors, for example, Yves Montand, Chagall, Modigliani and Matisse, regardless it houses huge numbers of their works.

To one side soon after the Colombe is the 1850 washhouse where today, three times each week, a nearby rancher offers her foods grown from the ground. To one side, the renowned Café de la Place broadens its patio up and down the square where the townspeople play boules, another seal of Saint Paul.

The voyage through the medieval town starts once you have gone through the enormous and angled imperial entryway with its gun. From that point, the cobblestone road Rue Grande drives you through the town past shops, exhibitions and specialists' studios, all crushed together in the medieval houses.

At the old well, soak steps pave the way to the congregation, yet we suggest that you proceed with the Rue Grande to the Grande Fountain worked in 1615 by Melchior Martin, a stonecutter from the town, and recorded as a noteworthy landmark since 1850. To one side you would more be able to effectively get up to the Place du Château (of which the keep today houses the town lobby). On this square stands the Romanesque church, worked in the thirteenth century with gothic components included the 1600s and vaults modified in the 1800s. Its ringer tower ascends confoundingly high up to the sky and alongside it a bold palm tree tries to contend. Behind the congregation you will locate the seventeenth century White Penitents Chapel known as the Folon Chapel, named after the Belgian craftsman who designed it.

Despite the fact that you are at the most astounding point in the town, to get the best perspectives backtrack your means and proceed on the Rue Grande – going by the little square with its old wellspring that gives the town drinking water since 1611 – toward the South Gate. Dating from the fourteenth century, the door is more seasoned than the defenses. Also, there you will have wonderful perspectives over the drift.

After the entryway comes the graveyard where Marc Chagall, quite a while occupant of Saint Paul, is covered.

To end your visit, you can come back to the town's passage along the eastern defenses, with the fourteenth century Esperon Tower, or the western bulwarks with the machicolated door tower. Both ways offer outstanding perspectives.

Before leaving, why not stop off at the bistro, have a drink and watch the villagers participating, in some cases vocally, in a session of boules.

Likewise to find in Saint Paul de Vence:

- the Maeght Foundation

- the Saint Michel Chapel in the burial ground, worked before the twelfth century, the most established in the town

- the Sainte Claire Chapel, the town's benefactor holy person

- the Saint Charles and Saint Claude Chapel, the latest, dating from 1695 with frescoes painted in 2014, on the little street prompting the Maeght Foundation.

If you are looking for accomodation in Saint Paul de Vence, you have many fancy hotels and resorts to choose. One example of a beautiful country house is “Hotel Les Messugues”, located at only 5 minutes walk from “The Maeght Foundation”.

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