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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 115

An illustration from The architecture of Provence and the Riviera, 1888, leaf 115 — arches. Between Frejus and Cannes, the Roman Via Aureliapasses inland through the chain of the Esterelle mountains,whence the Romans obtained much of the granite andporphyry found in their monuments. At Cannes andneighbourhood there are a few Roman relics. A bridgeover one of the small streams… … FIG. 2g. AQUKDUCT OF CLAUSONNE. where the wxll preserved remains of the Roman aqueduct(Fig. 29) which conveyed the water supply to Antibes arestill to be seen. At Antibes, the ancient Roman Antipolis, there areno Roman remains ; but according to M. Lentheric, astone has been found here with a Greek…

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