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Vence, a postcard made for fantasies, great artists over the years have tried to capture the serenity and Tranquility of Vence in their canvas by their colour palette. When the dawn, searches for beatific peace it ambled down to Vence and illuminates the majestic mountains, the chaste beaches, the benign bays and ultimately reaches you then empowers you with austerity. The city is quintessentially romantic and radiates rich heritage, culture and glamour.

The art of Vence can be reflected in the grandeur of the 12th century medieval town, the fortifications is resplendent with columns of the Marseilles citizens, relics of a roman victory arch. Erected in the 12th century, the castle of Villeneuve dates back to the 17th century architecture.

You will be stupefied by the fact that a painter Henri Matisse designed the majestic edifice The Rosaire Chapel. The Rosaire Chapel is a sacred art monument, unique in the world. The Chapel is adorned with stain glass windows, ceramics, stalls, stoup, cult objects, and priestly ornaments. For Henry Matisse, “this work required me 4 years of an exclusive and entiring effort and it is the fruit of my whole working life. In spite of all its imperfections I consider it as my masterpiece”.

If you are counting the masterpieces then Vence has in her abundance of it. For example The XI century cathedral often called as our lady of nativity. Built in the 4th century on the site of an ancient Roman temple, the cathedral began in the 11th/12th centuries. Most of its furniture is registered on the list of the Historic Monuments.

You will be bewitched by the beauty of the cathedral like, on the right in the wall, a piece of a Carolingian sculpture illustrates a bird drinking in an amphora which is itself ornamented with a bird. Fragment of a Roman inscription. One should be there to appreciate the wonderful architecture.