THE SOUTHERN ALPS

Mission preservation

An episode from the series FRENCH HERITAGE JOURNEYS (52MNS)

Synopsis

Francine Brondex creates a map of the area from the air.

Historian Philippe Thomassin is scouting out the two most astonishing valleys in the Nice hinterland: the Cians and Daluis gorges, a canyon of red rock.

The Var Valley is home to one of the region's most emblematic railroad lines: the Train des Pignes. Its construction was an epic story.