Over the centuries, this place overlooking the surroundings would have hosted a whole lot of activities, characteristic of their times. In the Iron Age (between 500 and 300 BC) the space was used in the form of a fortified camp, to protect the natives from enemy attacks. It would have been occupied by peoples already present in the region, the Ligurians, mixed with other pacifist peasants from the north, the Celts. In the 1st century, the region having been conquered by the Romans, they established there two villas and a craft area, for the manufacture of oil and wine, Then in the Middle Ages, the ruins were used for the manufacture of lime. The limestone is heated to a very high temperature; the powder thus obtained was mainly used in construction: as a plaster or as a mortar for the walls. Like a budding archaeologist, go in search of traces of life since Antiquity. Find: - the base of an ancient fortified wall, large square stones well stacked - a lime kiln, a perfectly cylindrical walled hole - the door of the village of craftsmen, long flat semi-buried stones and their traces of hinges - the remains of small workshops adjacent to each other, with their tanks still clearly visible
Antibes, Grasse, Maritime Alps, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Metropolitan France, 06220, France