Èze Village

This guide to Èze Village near Nice follows Friedrich Nietzsche, who arrived on the Riviera in the 1880s in poor health and was told by doctors to walk, up the goat path from the sea to this hilltop most days that winter. It traces how the climb became part of his writing routine, feeding pages of Thus Spoke Zarathustra that he composed stride by stride and wrote down once he reached the top. The trail below still carries his name, the Chemin de Nietzsche, for anyone willing to climb it the hard way.