Secret French Riviera Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides) - Softcover

Jean-Pierre Cassely

 
9782361958695: Secret French Riviera Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides)

Synopsis

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Let Secret French Riviera guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating French Riviera guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in its third edition, Secret French Riviera features 200 secret and unusual locations.

Inside Secret French Riviera:

  • Play a game of petanque with square boules
  • Vist an astonishing aerial well
  • View stained-plastic windows
  • Sit on a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England's haemophiliac son
  • Discover the instruments of the Passion of Christ
  • Witness a cannon that fires cherry stones
  • See an entire village that 'moved house'
  • Marvel at a chapel showing the dead rising from their tombs
  • Visit a trapdoor in the nave of a church that opens onto a rushing torrent
  • Eat in a restaurant in an Orient Express railway car
  • Enjoy Babar's beach, Tintin's Black Island, and Sleeping Beauty's chateau
  • Admire the Riviera's first pair of naked breasts
  • Spend the night sleeping in a tree

The French Riviera is not limited to the clichés of its beaches, private yachts and luxury hotels. Discover more and get off the beaten track with the indispensible Secret French Riviera guide.

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About the Author

Jean-Pierre Cassely spent ten years spent ten years working for the French television network, France 3, before becoming an independent in the field of television, video and sound (together with his long-time partner Philippe Carrese).His commentaries concerning his discoveries, broadcast daily on France Bleue Provence radio, under the apt title of 'Unusual Provence', took a humorous and sometimes provocative 'popular-historical' approach. Further information on these astonishing accounts can be found at: www.provence-insolite.org

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