While the village has been preserved in its original condition, nearby is
the high tech centre of Sophia Antipolis, constructed in the 1970s along the
same lines as La Défense near Paris. The name was adopted from the ancient
Greek colony of Antipolis which resided in the nearby village of Antibes. This
plateau was one of the few remaining vast sections of land that had remained
untouched in the French Riviera. Initially, investors interested in Sophia
Antipolis were mainly oil and mining companies. The park, however, took a
different turn when the University of Nice decided to move parts of its campus
to the
