Art Music & Culture Patrimoine
How far would you travel to look at a museum that specialises in old Roman pots? Well, we think it’s well worth the trip to a village near Béziers — a fair way from the Côte along the A8 and the A9, maybe, but no problem for a mini-break. The Romans used vast numbers of ceramic pots — jars ranging in size from carafes, to huge storage vessels called dolia, the size of a Californian hot tub — everywhere throughout their empire.
One Christmas Eve, long ago, when I was but a small child, my mother gave me a very special present: a tiny glass teddy bear with perfume inside his transparent tummy. With him came two small teddy bear-shaped white soaps fragranced with the scent of apricots. It was my first introduction to perfume.
Approximately 5,000 years ago man traveled all regions of France, including the Alpes Maritimes, and left vestiges of his presence which we can still find today in the forms of dolmens, menhirs, and tumuli. This time period is referred to as prehistoric or Neolithic (age of the polished stone) which covers the years from 8,500 to 2,500 before Christ.
