“The valleys of Menton used to be covered with lemon groves, there were trees everywhere,” Ciabaud said. Now, he said, "The land is sold to developers and all you see are buildings.

The Lemon Festival in Menton is left to the free imagination ... with exotic and edible plants including specimens of toromiro, a tree native to Easter Island, but now extinct on the island ...

Menton's traditional Lemon Festival is an annual event, but this year's edition is all about the Olympics. About 140 tonnes of citrus fruit - nearly 500,000 fruits - were used to build the floats ...