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The Best Attractions In La Turbie

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The Best Attractions In La Turbie

  • 2. Tete de Chien La Turbie
    The Tête de Chien is a 550 m high rock promontory near the village of La Turbie in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It overlooks the Principality of Monaco, and is the highest point on the Grande Corniche road.The American diplomat Samuel S. Cox, in his 1870 travel book Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers and Spain wrote that the Tête de Chien more resembled a tortoise than a dog's head, and believed that 'Tête de Chien' was a corruption of 'Tête de Camp', as it was where Caesar stationed his troops after the conquest of Gaul. Vere Herbert, the heroine of Ouida's 1880 novel Moths is described as living under the Tête de Chien, ...within a few miles of the brilliant Hell [Monaco]. In 1944, Leopold Bohm, a German defence company commander, was stationed ...
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  • 5. Monte-Carlo Golf Club La Turbie
    The Monte Carlo Invitational was a senior men's professional golf tournament on the European Senior Tour. It was played from 1998 to 2002 at the Monte Carlo Golf Club, La Turbie, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The course is near Mont Agel, in France, as there are no golf courses in Monaco. The Monte Carlo Open was played at the same venue from 1984 to 1992. The 2001 event, scheduled for 14–16 September, was cancelled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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