history. Marie Antoinette was known for her fondness with the lime à ongles, which was a nail file-like tool made of pumice stone. When her perfectly shaped...

Haute-Provence. Furnus Calcarius was the Latin name, from the lime kilns used in Roman times. (A Roman bridge still stands in the valley to the south of the...

consists of a half hectare around the castle adorned with plantations of plane trees, lime trees, chestnut trees, and cypress trees has been a World Heritage...

people. It is also the nearest via ferrata to Marseille. The town's old lime plaster mill was declared an historic monument in 1996. Communes of the...

average: the walls are made of pebbles and the mortar is simple lime. The Romans built a temple to Sylvanus whose altar was reused in the church as the...