Panoramic view of a typical hilltop village in the mid country above Nice: Gattières!
In the foreground, you can see the village of Gattières, with its bell tower towering above the village's old houses, narrow and tall, with their ochre and yellow tones and pitched roofs topped with round, golden-coloured tiles. The village has expanded in small steps, with buildings that are certainly more imposing but that retain the village's original colours and materials. Perched on a spur overlooking the Var plain, the village is built on an ovoid plan and, seen from the air, it appears to be rolled up like a snail. Set in a green setting, the village is surrounded by sloping woodland, covered in downy or holm oak, hornbeam, Aleppo pine and sometimes abandoned olive groves.
In the background, you can see the plain, the cultivated right bank where vegetables grow in greenhouses, then the river Var spanned by the Manda bridge. Finally, the left bank of the river is revealed, revealing wooded hillsides, olive orchards on terraces and the hilltop villages of Aspremont and Castagniers. The roads at the bottom of the valley come into view, as does the Provence railway.
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