The Architecture of Provence and the Riviera

by David MacGibbon

be said to have left nearly all trace of French and Provençal architecture behind, and in our further progress eastwards we shall meet with almost nothing which is not entirely Italian in style. We shall therefore in concluding our journey give only a rapid sketch of some of the more important buildings between Mentone and Genoa.

FIG. 265. INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL, VENTIMIGLIA.

The railway eastwards from Mentone follows the coast line, and cuts through some lofty rocks at the mouth of the

FIG. 266. STREET IN DOLCE AQUA.

torrent of St Louis, famous from containing the caves in which have been discovered human remains, associated with the bones of extinct animals, such as the mammoth, the great bear, the elk, &c.