Blue Guide Provence and Cote D'Azur, Second Edition

Rating:
Summary: useful but biased
Review: Generally I find the Blue Guides to be the most intelligent guide books around. While I did find much useful information in this book there was an attitude that got on my nerves. Perhaps it was the frequent and disdainful references to the "wars of religion", just a bit too superior for my tastes. Also Marseilles conatains some very important examples of 19th and 20th architecture that receive little if any attention. Similarly the buildings by Le Corbusier and Norman Foster are not discussed. In short a quaint, conservative, waspy view of Provence.