Beaulieu was just as idyllic in pre-history as it is today . Traces of humanity have been found by archaeologists in the shelters of Cap- Roux , the coastal rocky outcrops of the Esterel region . Beaulieu would have been valued in its role as a small Port called Anao . It was later inhabited by the Ligurian tribes and the Greeks who established a flourishing civilization there , on a small scale , well before the arrival of the Romans . Enter Emperor Augustus and Pax Romana ruled over the area from the beginnings of Christianity . 145 graves from Gallo-Roman times with important funerary artefacts bear

Beaulieu was just as idyllic in pre-history as it is today .

witness . Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire with the invasion of the Barbarians fast forward to the Middle Ages where we see inhabitants gathering around the old church Sancta Maria de Olivo . Fast forward again to Napoleon who recognized a beautiful place when he saw it and we have a very French town with the Italian name Belloloco ( beautiful place ).

Rather than Barbarian invaders , a decidedly more peaceful and exotic tribe took reign

A typical street in Beaulieu-sur-Mer British Queen Victoria

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