The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 340
xistence to a rocky eminence in the middleof a bay, forming at once a naturally sheltered harbourand a suitable site for a fortification for its defence(Fig. 148). It is therefore probably a place of very ancientorigin, and was in all likelihood the primitive Liguriansettlement of yEgitna, where… … 310 MEDIEVAL PERIOD. Massiliorum during the Middle Ages. Sometime beforethe tenth century it became a fief of the powerful Abbeyof the Lerins, to which the whole of the adjacent countryhad gradually become subject. The ecclesiastical suzerainwas represented on the mainland by a chevalier,…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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