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Eze Village
- AN EAGLE NEST PERCHED ON ITS ROCKY PEAK
Magic place in the azure, Eze seduces. The atmosphere is authentic and Eze has kept the traditions even now that it has become an
international touristic site.
- AN HISTORICAL SITE
Eze's history is typified in its topography. Occupied from the end of the bronze period, the eagle nest perched up to 400 m above the sea,
has been fit up by the Celto Ligurian, then reorganized by Romans, Lombards in 578 and Saracens in 900. Part of the earldom of Nice and
"Provence" until 1388, Eze went under the authority of the count of Savoy. Eze suffered French invasions from 6th century to 18th
century. In 1792, before the creation of the Alpes Maritimes, Eze was a part of Monaco district, and was united to France in 1860.
- EZE, VILLAGE CHOOSEN BY FAMOUS PERSONALITIES...
Known or unknown, Eze charms all visitors. Some just passed, others, seduced by its characteristics and its landscapes, stopped definitively
or adopted it as a vacation place...
In 1780, the Countess of Genlis recalling her journey from Nice to Genoa on the high road cliff described the "enormous rocks as a sort
of a wall rising up to heaven" and "precipices of five hundred feet" around the village
- In 1868, Georges Sand after the evocation of the "enchantment" of the panorama, described
"the ruins of Eze, planted on a cone of rocks, with a typical village as a sugar loaf, stop the people. It is the most beautiful panorama
of the road, the most complete and wonderfully composed".
- 20 years later, Frederic Nietzsche took the path from the station at Eze on the Sea to the village and composed the draught of
his "third Zarathoustra" on his way to this "marvelous moorish village called Eza built in between rocks".
- In 1887, Stephen Liegeard, the inventor of the expression "Côte d'Azur" compared the
shape of the village to a woman : "The grooves of the path seem to be the gold laces of her black blouse. The sun has tanned her forehead,
the storm and the cannon when they explode have jagged a ruined diadem".
Victorien Sardou, the academician prefers to admire the nuances of the green vegetation, describing "the almond and peach trees, the
thick and luxuriant foliage of the carob trees, the grey silvery of the olive trees".
Brassai, the famous photographer, took his last photography in Eze.
Other personalities coming from different horizons stayed a few times in Eze. For example, the Prince Guillaume from Sweden, the imperial
Altesse Anastasie Michailowna from Russia, Prince Stragonov or the president of the French republic Raymond Poincaré.
Princess Antoinette Grimaldi, the sister of Prince Rainier of Monaco is living in Eze for many years. One of the most famous philosopher,
Maurice Blanchot, as well as the members of the rock group U2 have a vacancy residence.
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