Vence

Vence is a small French town set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes region, between Nice and Antibes. The citizens of Vence proffesion's usually are artists, sculptors or painters. The town has a population of 2903.

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D H Lawrence died here in March 1930.His remains were later exhumed and taken to a ranch in New Mexico.

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There is a small chapel, Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse.

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Nice: Nice (pronounced ) (Provencal: Nica or Nissa; Italian: Nizza) is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa, with 933,080 inhabitants in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census. The city is a major tourist center and a leading resort on the French Rivi...

Antibes: Antibes is a small resort town of southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the C?te d'Azur, located between Cannes and Nice. It is 12-½ miles by rail southwest of Nice, and is situated on the east side of the Garoupe peninsula. The population at the 1999 census was 72412. The area of ...

D H Lawrence: David Herbert Lawrence (11 September, 1885 – 2 March, 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal lett...

Vence related Images and Photos (experimental)

Amoureux de Vence

Saint Paul de Vence Doorway with Foliage