PAYS DES PAILLONS - PAYS DES PAILLONS

Pays des Paillons

This is the former Comté de Nice. The hills are the setting of old villages brimming with traditions, legends and pilgrimages that remain very much alive. In this landscape of farming terraces, olive groves, chestnut groves, the villages of Peille, Peillon, L'Escarène, Lucéram and others are all popular stopovers with strollers (breathtaking panoramas) and visitors looking for cultural interest.

Villages & resorts Pays des Paillons

- the Chapelle des pénitents blancs in Peillon and its frescos

- the poly-triptych by Bréa in the Église Ste-Marie-Madeleine in Contes

- the view from the mountain village of Berre-les-Alpes

- the medieval site of Lucéram and its church, with a host of precious silverwork

- le musée du terroir à Peille

- the Musée de la Crèche in Lucéram

- the remains of the medieval village of Châteauneuf-Villevieille

- a thirteenth century tower, "fendue à la gorge" in Lucéram, in an almost perfect state of preservation

- the station of Touët-de-L'Escarène, where the interior has gone unchanged since the day of its inauguration in the nineteenth century

- the "Martinet" iron mill in Contes

- the site of the village of Peillon, which appears to have been stuck in aspic for centuries

- the Route du Sel between Nice and Piedmont, notably passing the villages of Drap, l'Escarène and Touët-de-l'Escarène

- the forest of Le Paillon in Blausasc

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