Colline du Château

This guide to the Colline du Château in Nice follows the Duke of Berwick, an exiled and illegitimate son of England's King James II turned French marshal, through the 1706 siege that finally took the citadel after fifty-four days of bombardment. It then turns to the order that came after victory, when Louis XIV overruled his own top military engineer, Vauban, who had once called this citadel one of the strongest in Europe. Walk the grass and pines here and picture the walls Vauban wanted to keep.