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Route de Sel

The Ancient Salt Road

The main area of salt production in the region is the Camargue where Salines have produced salt since RomVentimiglia in modern Italy.

Two routes

In fact, Emperor Augustus created the route from Ventimiglia up the Roya Valley and over the Col de Tende. The other road went from Nice up the Valley of the Vésubie to St-Martin-Vésubie and beyond. These routes avoided the main roads and consequently the bandits who patrolled them. Both passed through some of the settlements featured in my Vésubie route such as Utelle and St-Martin-Vésubie or Sospel, Breil, Saorge and Tende in the Vallée de la Roya.

The Dark Ages and after

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Nice Beyond (L'Arrière Pays Niçois)

Text © Paul Shawcross

Image by Paul Shawcross