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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 111

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86 ROMAN PERIOD. presented to the town by the city of Marseilles (seePart VI.) Crossing the wide and dangerous channel of the Var(formerly the boundary between France and Savoy) wearrive at Nice. Nice (or Nizza), although now the most importanttown on the Riviera, possesses no ancient buildings.In… … FIG. 31. ciMiEZ (Locking- S. IV.) This ancient city has almost entirely disappeared, its onlyrelics being the ruins of a small amphitheatre (Figs. 30and 31), through the centre of which the public road nowpasses, and some excavated hypocausts in the garden of avilla adjoining. The amphitheatre…

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