The porte Saint-Antoine

Menton is a small isolated town, surrounded by walls pierced at the four cardinal points of doors jealously guarded. Streets and alleys are dark, crooked, often vaulted. They follow the level curves and are connected by ties that go down to the old Roman road, today Long Street. Piercing the rampart, the doors connect the city with the neighboring states. To the North, that of John II opens towards Castellar; to the South, a door delivers passage to the inhabitants who are heading towards...