Secret French Riviera Guide

Let Secret French Riviera guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.Step off the beaten track with this fascinating French Riviera guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in its third edition, Secret French Riviera features 200 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret French Riviera:Play a game of petanque with square boulesVist an astonishing aerial wellView stained-plastic windowsSit on a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England's haemophiliac sonDiscover the instruments of the Passion of ChristWitness a cannon that fires cherry stonesSee an entire village that 'moved house'Marvel at a chapel showing the dead rising from their tombsVisit a trapdoor in the nave of a church that opens onto a rushing torrentEat in a restaurant in an Orient Express railway carEnjoy Babar's beach, Tintin's Black Island, and Sleeping Beauty's chateauAdmire the Riviera's first pair of naked breastsSpend the night sleeping in a treeThe French Riviera is not limited to the clichés of its beaches, private yachts and luxury hotels. Discover more and get off the beaten track with the indispensible Secret French Riviera guide.

Jean-Pierre Cassely spent ten years spent ten years working for the French television network, France 3, before becoming an independent in the field of television, video and sound (together with his long-time partner Philippe Carrese).His commentaries concerning his discoveries, broadcast daily on France Bleue Provence radio, under the apt title of 'Unusual Provence', took a humorous and sometimes provocative 'popular-historical' approach. Further information on these astonishing accounts can be found at: www.provence-insolite.org