The Daily Mail featured an article about one of our favourite places in Provence .... the walled medieval hilltop village of St Paul de Vence where Picasso and chums hung out at the Colombe D’Or.In his day this was a three-room auberge. Today it is a small luxury hotel that nonchalantly hangs Picassos and other priceless works on its walls. A good spot for a (wallet-busting) meal on a terrace sitting under vine leaves, it is besieged by the coach-loads of trippers who pass its doors walking up to the village, so you can’t just pop in to see the art. Outside St Paul on a hill among pine trees is the Maeght Foundation, a top-flight gallery set up by art dealing friends of Henri Matisse in the 1960s to show off their highly distinguished and sometimes wacky collection of pictures and sculptures. Read more: A day with Picasso, Matisse and a mud massage in pristine Provence
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