Jardin du Monastere de Cimiez

This guide to the monastery garden of Cimiez in Nice starts at the well beneath its rose-covered pergolas, then goes back to the 1543 siege that burned the old town below, an act French and Spanish chroniclers still blame on each other. It follows the Franciscan friars who lost their convent in that fire and climbed this hill to take over a small Benedictine chapel, and traces the citrus trees and olive grove they planted as they turned exile into cultivation. Listen for how their kitchen garden is said to have produced one dish still served across Nice today.