Vence (Vence)

 interesting place, historic city center

Vence is a small French town and commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes département, between Nice and Antibes.

Vence is famous for being home to artists, sculptors and painters. D. H. Lawrence died in Vence, March 1930. His remains were later exhumed and taken to a ranch in New Mexico.

The town has a small chapel, up above the historique Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse.

Within the historique village, there is a chapel that has a mosaic by Chagall on an outside wall, dated 1911.

There is a section of the old Roman road still in the village, and it can be walked on.

The town has a thriving community of artists and is a better choice than the neighboring Saint Paul if a traveller wants a unique work of art, as well as a better place to windowshop than the crowded, steep walks of St Paul.

Vence is famous for its spring water, which can be collected from numerous fountains throughout the town.

Vence is twinned with the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire.