The Riviera
Where to stay 15
Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic – the art deco palace facing the steps
Le Majestic on the Croisette, opposite the Palais des Festivals: the art deco hotel of 1926, its 349 rooms and suites, Beefbar Cannes, the Ciro's…
Le Mas Candille in Mougins – a Provençal farmhouse in Hugo Toro's rendition
Le Mas Candille above Cannes: an 18th-century farmhouse reopened in 2024 with Hugo Toro's interiors, the Clarins spa The Glow House and 47 rooms and…
Royal-Riviera in Cap-Ferrat – a Belle Époque hotel from 1904
The Royal-Riviera on Cap-Ferrat: a 1904 Belle Époque hotel with 94 rooms, a private sandy beach, Villa l'Orangerie and La Table du Royal.
The Riviera's small hotels – seven hideaways with history
Seven small Riviera hotels with a story: La Colombe d'Or, Hôtel Welcome, Château Eza, La Chèvre d'Or, La Ponche, La Réserve Ramatuelle and Belles…
Hôtel Byblos in Saint-Tropez – a village of pastel houses since 1967
Hôtel Byblos in Saint-Tropez, opened in 1967 with Brigitte Bardot as godmother: Les Caves du Roy, the Floirat family, Laura Gonzalez's new rooms and…
Hôtel Martinez – art deco on the Croisette and Cannes' first Palace
Hôtel Martinez on La Croisette: opened in 1929 by Emmanuel Martinez, renovated for €150 million and in June 2026 the first hotel in Cannes with…
Château Saint-Martin in Vence – the Knights Templar's hill became a palace
Château Saint-Martin & Spa above Vence: a Templar hill, a hotel since 1954 and today an Oetker Collection Palace with a La Prairie spa and sea views.
La Colombe d'Or – the inn where artists paid with paintings
La Colombe d'Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, opened in 1920 by Paul Roux, where Léger, Braque, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso paid with art that still hangs…
Carlton Cannes – the domes on La Croisette and the hotel after 2023
Carlton Cannes on La Croisette: Grace Kelly, Hitchcock and Elton John, the domes of La Belle Otero and a €300 million renovation that reopened it in…
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat – the palace at the very tip of the headland
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat's palace hotel since 1908: Eiffel's rotunda, the 1939 saltwater pool, Club Dauphin, Le Cap's Michelin star and three Michelin…
Belles Rives in Juan-les-Pins – Fitzgerald's summer by the sea
Hôtel Belles Rives in Juan-les-Pins: the villa where Fitzgerald began Tender is the Night, a 1930 Art Deco hotel with 43 rooms, a private beach and a…
The Negresco in Nice – the pink dome on the Promenade des Anglais
Le Negresco in Nice since 1913: Niermans' palace, the Baccarat chandelier made for the Tsar, Jeanne Augier's art and Le Chantecler's Michelin star.
Le Cap Estel in Èze – a private headland between Nice and Monaco
Le Cap Estel in Èze-bord-de-mer: a 19th-century manor on a private two-hectare headland, 20 rooms, its own beach and a Michelin-starred restaurant.
La Réserve de Beaulieu – from fish pond to Belle Époque palace
La Réserve de Beaulieu began as a fish restaurant in 1880 and won three Michelin stars in 1933. The story of the pink palace and its 2026 reopening.
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc – the hotel that invented the Riviera summer
From a writers' villa in 1870 to the Riviera's most famous palace: Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on Cap d'Antibes, its 1914 rock pool and the Fitzgeralds.
Where to eat 38
L'Oursin in Le Lavandou – a new star above the Aiguebelle rocks
L'Oursin at Hôtel Les Roches in Le Lavandou: a first MICHELIN star in 2026, Antoine Gras and Benoît Gornard's Face au Levant menu at €180, season and…
La Palmeraie in La Croix-Valmer – a star among century-old palms
La Palmeraie at the Château de Valmer in La Croix-Valmer: one MICHELIN star, Thomas Pezeril's six-course Terroir and Végétal menus at €190 and €140…
Louis Vuitton in Saint-Tropez – Donckele and Frédéric's summer star
Louis Vuitton's seasonal restaurant at the White 1921 hotel in Saint-Tropez: one MICHELIN star, Arnaud Donckele and Maxime Frédéric, a €200 menu…
La Terrasse at Cheval Blanc St-Tropez – Donckele's starred lunch
La Terrasse at Cheval Blanc St-Tropez: one MICHELIN star, Arnaud Donckele's Provençal lunch menu Sous les Pins at €190, Wednesday Soirées Riviera…
Colette in Saint-Tropez – a star beside the writer's summer house
Colette at the Hôtel Sezz Saint-Tropez: one MICHELIN star since 2021, Philippe Colinet's plant-led menus at €165 and €205, the May–October season and…
La Voile in Ramatuelle – two stars and a garden menu above the sea
La Voile at La Réserve Ramatuelle: two MICHELIN stars, Eric Canino's light Mediterranean cooking, menus from €195 to €350, the April–October season…
La Table de Pierre in Saint-Paul-de-Vence – a first star in the garden
La Table de Pierre at the Domaine du Mas de Pierre: a first MICHELIN star in 2026, garden-led Provençal menus from €99 to €175, the conservatory…
L'Or Bleu in Théoule-sur-Mer – Alain Montigny above the red rocks
L'Or Bleu at the Tiara Miramar Beach Resort: one MICHELIN star, Alain Montigny's surprise menus at €165 and €195, a terrace over the Estérel, season…
Mareluna in Théoule-sur-Mer – an Italian chef in a 1630 soap factory
Mareluna at the Château de Théoule: one MICHELIN star, Francesco Fezza's Mediterranean tasting menus from €145 to €210, a sea-view terrace, hours and…
Bessem in Mandelieu-la-Napoule – surprise menus under the plane trees
Bessem in Mandelieu-la-Napoule: one MICHELIN star, Bessem Ben Abdallah's Mediterranean surprise menus at €125 and €175, a garden terrace, hours and…
Alain Llorca in La Colle-sur-Loup – facing Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Alain Llorca in La Colle-sur-Loup: one MICHELIN star, a terrace facing Saint-Paul-de-Vence, lunch menu €75 and La Collection menus €150–240. Hours…
L'Auberge de la Roche in Valdeblore – natural wine and a first star
L'Auberge de la Roche in Valdeblore: Louis-Philippe Riel's one-star carte blanche menu at €95, natural wines, rooms with outdoor baths, opening days…
Auberge Quintessence in Roubion – a starred refuge at 1,700 metres
Auberge Quintessence at the Col de la Couillole: Christophe and Pauline Billau's one-star mountain menu, seven rooms, opening days and how to book…
Épicentre in Nice – Sélim M'Nasri's first star, built on spices
Épicentre near the port of Nice: Sélim M'Nasri's spice-led cooking, a first MICHELIN star in 2026, Seven and Nine Spices menus from €99, opening days…
JAN in Nice – a South African chef's table near the old port
JAN near the port of Nice: Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen's one-star South African-inspired cooking, menus from €165, the MARIA cheese room, dress…
Les Agitateurs in Nice – Samuel Victori's playful star by the port
Les Agitateurs near the port of Nice: Samuel Victori's creative one-MICHELIN-star cooking, dinner menus from €135, weekend lunch from €95, opening…
L'Aromate in Nice – Mickaël Gracieux's star by Place Masséna
L'Aromate near Place Masséna in Nice: Mickaël Gracieux's one-MICHELIN-star cooking, the Persil and Basilic menus from €130, opening days and how to…
ONICE in Nice – an Italo-Argentine couple in the antiques quarter
ONICE in Nice's antiques quarter: Florencia Montes and Lorenzo Ragni's one-star tasting menus, prices from €125, opening days, how to book and what…
Le Chantecler in Nice – Virginie Basselot's star at the Negresco
Le Chantecler at Le Negresco: Virginie Basselot's one-star cooking in an 18th-century dining room on the Promenade des Anglais, menus from €210…
Racines in Nice – Bruno Cirino's vegetable table, closed for 2026
Racines in Nice: Bruno Cirino's one-star vegetable restaurant near the Libération market. Closed for the 2026 season. The story, the cooking, the…
Le Cap in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat – Provence under the Aleppo pines
Le Cap at Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat: Yoric Tièche's one-star Provençal cooking under the Aleppo pines, tasting menus from €185, La Table Krug and the…
Le Restaurant des Rois in Beaulieu – La Réserve's table since 1880
Le Restaurant des Rois at La Réserve de Beaulieu: Julien Roucheteau's one-star cooking on the sea, the hotel's story since 1880, menus from €195 and…
La Table du Cap Estel in Èze – a new star on a private headland
La Table du Cap Estel at Èze-Bord-de-Mer: Kévin Garcia's first MICHELIN star, menus of seafood and garden herbs from €215, the private headland's…
Château Eza in Èze – a Swedish prince's eyrie with a MICHELIN star
La Table Gastronomique at Château Eza: a Swedish prince's former winter home above the sea, Justin Schmitt's one-star cooking, tasting menu €200…
Les Terraillers in Biot – Michaël Fulci in a 16th-century pottery
Les Terraillers in Biot: one MICHELIN star, Michaël Fulci's cooking in a 16th-century pottery, menus from €69 at lunch to €175, opening hours and…
Les Pêcheurs on Cap d'Antibes – Nicolas Rondelli's sea menu
Les Pêcheurs at the Cap d'Antibes Beach Hotel: one MICHELIN star, Nicolas Rondelli's sea menus at €145–210, opening days, season and booking.
La Passagère in Juan-les-Pins – fish and Art Deco at Belles Rives
La Passagère at Hôtel Belles Rives in Juan-les-Pins: Aurélien Véquaud's one-star MICHELIN cooking, menus from €175, opening days, season and booking.
La Palme d'Or in Cannes – Jean Imbert's film set on the Croisette
La Palme d'Or at the Hôtel Martinez in Cannes: Jean Imbert's one-star MICHELIN restaurant, menus at €160 and €240, opening days, season, dress code…
Socca, pissaladière and Bellet – how to eat like a nissart
Nice's cuisine, French intangible heritage since 2019: socca, pissaladière, pan bagnat and daube, the Cuisine Nissarde label, the addresses and…
A morning at Cours Saleya – flowers and baroque in old Nice
A morning on Cours Saleya in old Nice: the flower market since 1861, Monday's antiques market, the Chapelle de la Miséricorde and the view from…
The Riviera's star restaurants 2026 – from Le Louis XV to La Vague d'Or
Guide Michelin 2026 on the Riviera: three stars for Le Louis XV, Mirazur, La Vague d'Or and La Table du Castellet, plus every new star from Monaco to…
Mougins – the village where Picasso stayed and the chefs followed
A guide to Mougins above Cannes: the spiral old village, Picasso's final years at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, the FAMM museum of women artists and the…
La Villa Archange in Le Cannet – Bruno Oger's bastide above Cannes
La Villa Archange in Le Cannet: Bruno Oger's two-star restaurant in an 18th-century bastide above Cannes, with a garden, a bistro and Breton touches.
La Chèvre d'Or in Èze – two stars in an eagle's nest above the sea
Château de la Chèvre d'Or sits at the top of Èze above the sea: a restaurant since 1953, two Michelin stars since 2000 and chef Tom Meyer since 2024.
Flaveur in Nice – the Tourteaux brothers, the spices and two stars
Flaveur in Nice: Gaël and Mickaël Tourteaux blend vadouvan and garam masala with Mediterranean fish – two Michelin stars, the only pair in Nice.
Louroc at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc – dinner in the room of the waves
Louroc at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on Cap d'Antibes: a Michelin star, Patricia Anastassiadis's wave-panelled room and Sébastien Broda's Provençal…
La Vague d'Or in Saint-Tropez – Arnaud Donckele's kitchen by the beach
La Vague d'Or at Cheval Blanc St-Tropez has held three Michelin stars since 2013. Arnaud Donckele's Provençal cuisine on La Bouillabaisse beach.
Mirazur in Menton – where the moon decides what ends up on the plate
Mauro Colagreco's Mirazur in Menton cooks by the lunar calendar – roots, leaves, flowers or fruit. Three Michelin stars; world's best restaurant 2019.
Itineraries 8
Nice to Menton by train – the Riviera, one stop at a time
Take the TER from Nice to Menton: Villefranche, Èze and the Nietzsche path, Cap-d'Ail, Monaco's underground station, Cap Martin and E-1027, stop by…
Sainte-Agnès and Gorbio – two eyries above Menton
A winding drive up from the lemon groves, two villages perch in the mountains behind Menton. One calls itself the highest coastal village in Europe…
Gourdon and the Gorges du Loup – an eagle's nest above the gorge
Perched on a sheer pinnacle 760 metres up, Gourdon looks down on a river that has cut a canyon through the hills behind Grasse. Come for the view…
The Esterel and the Corniche d'Or – where the Riviera turns red
Between Saint-Raphaël and Mandelieu, the remains of volcanoes active 250 million years ago drop into a blue sea. The road along their edge, opened in…
Castle Hill and Port Lympia – Nice from above and from the water
There is no castle on Nice's Castle Hill: Louis XIV had it blown up in 1706. What remains is a park with a waterfall, panoramas from sunrise over the…
The three Corniche roads – the drive from Nice to Menton
The Basse, Moyenne and Grande Corniche from Nice to Menton: which road goes where, Èze and La Turbie, Roquebrune where they meet, and E-1027 on Cap…
48 hours in Saint-Paul-de-Vence – Maeght, Chagall and La Colombe d'Or
Two days in Saint-Paul-de-Vence: the 16th-century ramparts, Chagall's grave, dinner at La Colombe d'Or, the Fondation Maeght and Matisse's chapel in…
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in a day – villas, coastal paths and Paloma
A day on Cap-Ferrat: Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild's nine gardens, lunch at the harbour, the coastal path to the lighthouse and a swim at Paloma beach.
What to see 59
Cannes in 2027 – the festival and trade-fair calendar, month by month
The Cannes calendar for 2027, month by month: Canneseries, the games festival, MIPIM, the 80th Festival de Cannes, Cannes Lions, the summer…
La Malmaison – a Belle Époque villa for art on the Croisette
La Malmaison on the Croisette: built in 1863 as the Grand Hôtel's annex, a grand duke's golfers' club, now Cannes's art centre, reopened in 2025 with…
Pointe Croisette – Palm Beach, Port Canto and the end of the bay
The Pointe Croisette at the eastern end of the Croisette: the Palm Beach casino of 1929 and its rebirth, Port Pierre-Canto, Europe's first private…
Cannes Yachting Festival 2027 – 700 yachts in two harbours
The Cannes Yachting Festival 2027 runs from 7 to 12 September in the Vieux Port and Port Canto: around 700 boats from 5 to 55 metres, opening hours…
The English quarter of Cannes – Lord Brougham and the Villa Rothschild
How Lord Brougham made Cannes a resort in 1834, the British villas of La Croix-des-Gardes, the first Riviera tennis court and the Villa Rothschild of…
La Californie – Cannes' hill of Russian domes and royal villas
The hill of La Californie above Cannes: the villas of the Russian and British winter colonies, the Orthodox church of Saint-Michel-Archange, St…
The Cannes Film Festival explained – how the 80th edition works
The 80th Festival de Cannes runs from 11 to 22 May 2027. How the festival works – history, the Palais and its steps, the sections and the Palme d'Or…
Musée des Arts Asiatiques – Kenzo Tange's white pavilion in Nice
Nice's Museum of Asian Arts by Kenzo Tange: a marble and glass pavilion on a lake by the Promenade des Anglais, with India, China, Japan, South-East…
The baroque churches of Vieux Nice – gilt, stucco and painted domes
A morning among the baroque churches of Nice's old town: the cathedral of Sainte-Réparate, the Jesuit Gesù on rue Droite and Vittone's Miséricorde on…
Opéra de Nice – the 1885 theatre by the sea and its 2026–27 season
The Opéra de Nice, opened in 1885 with Aida: the house, its premieres and the 2026–2027 season with Bertrand Bonello's Tristan und Isolde, Unsuk…
Promenade du Paillon – Nice's green river, now 20 hectares
Nice's Promenade du Paillon: the 2013 park with its water mirror, the 8-hectare urban forest by Alexandre Chemetoff opened in October 2025, the art…
Mont Boron – Nice's forest hill, a Savoy fort and an English folly
Mont Boron above Nice: a free 57-hectare forest park with 11 km of trails, the 16th-century Fort du Mont Alban, the neo-Mughal Château de l'Anglais…
Palais Lascaris – a baroque palace of music in Vieux Nice
The Palais Lascaris in Vieux Nice: a 17th-century Genoese baroque palace with frescoed ceilings and about 500 historic instruments, from a 1581…
Musée Jules Chéret – four centuries of art in a princess's villa
Nice's fine art museum in the Villa Thomson on Les Baumettes: Bronzino, the Van Loos, Monet, Bonnard, Dufy and Jules Chéret. History, highlights, the…
Carnival of Nice 2027 – Vive l'Amour, flower battles and the King
Carnaval de Nice 2027, Vive l'Amour, 9–28 February: the corsos on Place Masséna, the flower battles on the Promenade des Anglais, history since 1294…
Saint-Nicolas in Nice – the tsars' cathedral and its five green domes
Nice's Russian Orthodox cathedral, inaugurated in 1912: the tsarevich's chapel, five green domes, a Moscow-style façade on a concrete frame, and how…
Villa Masséna – a Belle Époque palace on the Promenade des Anglais
The Villa Masséna beside the Negresco: a prince's Belle Époque villa of 1898, now Nice's museum of art and history, with a public garden. History…
Grasse – a day in the perfume capital above Cannes
Grasse, the perfume capital above Cannes: its UNESCO-listed know-how, the Musée International de la Parfumerie, Fragonard's factory, the cathedral…
Hyères and the Villa Noailles – modernism among the palms
The Riviera's oldest climatic resort hides one of the first modern houses in France on its castle hill. Below it lie a medieval old town, a Greek…
La Turbie – the Roman trophy that keeps watch over Monaco
High above the Principality on the ridge, Augustus raised a monument to the conquest of the Alps. Two thousand years, one gunpowder charge and an…
Roquebrune – the perched village with France's oldest keep
Between Monaco and Menton, a tangle of vaulted lanes climbs to a castle founded in the tenth century. Below it grows an olive tree older than the…
Porquerolles – pine beaches, island forts and an art villa underground
The largest of the Hyères islands has belonged to the French state since 1971 and lies within a national park. Come for the white beaches; stay for…
Biot – bubble glass, Templar stones and Fernand Léger's museum
Inland from Antibes, a perched village once made the Mediterranean's oil jars. Today its furnaces blow glass full of tiny bubbles, and at its foot…
Vallauris – where Picasso fell for clay
For seven years after the war, the most famous artist alive lived in a potters' town above Golfe-Juan. He left it a bronze shepherd, a vaulted chapel…
Port-Cros – the island one woman saved for the nation
The steepest and greenest of the Hyères islands has one small harbour, a handful of houses and waters full of groupers. It owes its wildness to the…
Peillon – the medieval village that never changed
In the hills behind Nice, a village of stone stairways and vaulted passages sits on a spur above a ravine, much as it has for centuries. In a small…
Théoule-sur-Mer – red coves, a soap château and Cardin's bubbles
Nine kilometres from the Croisette, the Esterel begins and Cannes falls silent. Théoule's coast is all red porphyry and hidden coves, guarded by a…
Beausoleil – the French balcony above Monte-Carlo
Cross a street in upper Monte-Carlo and you are in France. Beausoleil was meant to be called Monte-Carlo Supérieur; Monaco objected, and a Belle…
Tourrettes-sur-Loup – the cliff village that lives on violets
Its outer houses form a wall above the ravines, and since 1880 its terraces have been planted with violets. Five kilometres from Vence…
Bormes-les-Mimosas – the village that renamed itself after a flower
In 1968, Bormes added "mimosa" to its name, and every February the village proves why. Above the Var coast, its rose-tiled lanes look out to the…
Juan-les-Pins and Jazz à Juan – sixty summers of jazz under the pines
Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald all played beneath the same stone pines by the sea. Since 1960 Jazz à Juan has turned a seaside resort…
Cap-d'Ail – Monaco's French neighbour and its secret shore path
Step west out of Fontvieille and the towers give way to Belle Époque villas and a path cut along the rocks. Cap-d'Ail, where the Lumière brothers and…
Grimaud – the hilltop village above the Gulf of Saint-Tropez
Everyone knows the lagoon town of Port Grimaud. Fewer climb to the village that gave it its name: a ruined castle, a windmill and medieval lanes…
Vence – Matisse's chapel and a cathedral city in the hills
A bishopric until the Revolution, Vence kept its walls, its fountains and an ash tree said to be a gift from François I. Then, in his late seventies…
Fréjus – Julius Caesar's port on the Riviera
Before Nice or Cannes mattered, there was Forum Julii, home port of Rome's fleet in Gaul. Fréjus still holds the richest Roman remains in France…
Îles de Lérins – the monks' island and the Man in the Iron Mask's prison near Cannes
A day on the Lérins Islands off Cannes: Fort Royal and the Man in the Iron Mask's cell on Sainte-Marguerite, and the monks' wine on Saint-Honorat…
Villa Kérylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer – a Greek house by the sea
Théodore Reinach's Villa Kérylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, built 1902–1908 as a house from ancient Delos: peristyle, library, mosaics and how to visit.
Gassin – the watchtower over the Bay of Saint-Tropez
Gassin, 200 m above the Bay of Saint-Tropez: ring-wall views to the islands, the 29 cm Androuno alley, a chapel from 1090 and dinner on Place deï…
Ramatuelle and Pampelonne – the hilltop village and the beach below
Ramatuelle and Pampelonne: the hill village that fought with beehives, the 4.5 km beach that is not in Saint-Tropez, Club 55, Cap Camarat and the…
Jean Cocteau's Menton – the wedding hall, the Bastion and a disputed collection
Jean Cocteau in Menton: the frescoed wedding hall in the town hall, the Bastion museum by the harbour, the Wunderman collection and how to visit…
Saint-Tropez out of season – the town when the yachts have gone
Saint-Tropez in November: the market on Place des Lices, the Musée de l'Annonciade and Signac's painters, La Ponche, the citadel and the town's real…
Musée Chagall in Nice – twelve biblical paintings in a house of light
The Musée national Marc Chagall in Nice: Chagall's gift to France, the twelve Message biblique paintings, the concert hall windows, the garden, hours…
Valbonne and Place des Arcades – a square to slow down at
Valbonne above Antibes: the grid village founded by the Lérins monks in 1519, the arcaded Place des Arcades, the Saint-Blaise church and the local…
Promenade des Anglais in Nice – the Englishmen's walkway along the Bay of Angels
A walk along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice: the 1820 charity project, the Art Deco Palais de la Méditerranée, the Negresco and the Quai des…
Musée Matisse in Nice – the red villa among the olive trees in Cimiez
The Musée Matisse in Nice: almost 600 works in a 17th-century Genoese villa in Cimiez, from the 1890s to the late cut-outs, plus hours, prices and…
La Croisette in Cannes – two kilometres from the Palais des Festivals to the Martinez
A walk along La Croisette in Cannes: Lord Brougham's fishing village, the Palais des Festivals from 1982, the Belle Époque Carlton and the Art Deco…
Le Suquet in Cannes – the old town on the hill, from Forville to the castle tower
A walk through Le Suquet, the old town of Cannes: Marché Forville, Rue Saint-Antoine, Notre-Dame-de-l'Espérance and the museum in the monks' castle.
Musée Picasso in Antibes – two autumn months in 1946 that became a museum
The Musée Picasso in Antibes: how two months in 1946 at the Château Grimaldi became the first Picasso museum, plus de Staël, the sea terrace and…
Domaine du Rayol – around the world in a garden by the sea
A garden of the world's Mediterranean climates on the Var coast: Gilles Clément's Domaine du Rayol, its history since 1908 and its snorkelling trail.
Château de la Napoule – the fairytale castle two Americans built by the sea
Château de la Napoule in Mandelieu: a medieval castle by the sea, rebuilt as a fairytale by Henry and Marie Clews, with a Jardin remarquable garden.
Haut-de-Cagnes and Les Collettes – Renoir's last garden
Haut-de-Cagnes above Cagnes-sur-Mer: the Grimaldi castle museum, the medieval lanes and Les Collettes, where Renoir painted his last eleven years.
The Coastal Path at Cap d'Antibes – everything you need to know about Tire-Poil
Walking the Sentier de Tire-Poil on Cap d'Antibes: where it starts, how long it takes, what you see along the way and when the coastal path is closed.
Val Rahmeh in Menton – the general's garden that became a botanical treasure
Val Rahmeh in Menton: from a lemon grove to General Radcliffe's villa and, since 1967, a botanical garden with lotus, daturas and the rare toromiro…
Old Antibes – from the Greek Antipolis to Picasso's castle
A historical walk through Vieil Antibes: Greek Antipolis, the Grimaldi castle where Picasso worked in 1946, the cathedral, Port Vauban and Fort Carré.
Serre de la Madone – the garden Hidcote's creator hid away in Menton
Serre de la Madone in Menton: the terraced garden Hidcote's Lawrence Johnston made from 1924, its decline, its rescue and the restoration under way…
Menton in winter light – lemons, gardens and Belle Époque
Menton in winter light: the old town and Saint-Michel basilica, Cocteau's museum and Bastion, the February lemon festival and the gardens of Garavan.
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild – nine gardens on the headland at Cap Ferrat
Visit Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: Béatrice de Rothschild's pink villa, its Sèvres porcelain and nine themed gardens.
From the sea to the summit at Èze – the Nietzsche Path, the garden and the village
Climb from the sea to Èze-Village on the Nietzsche Path: the exotic garden in the castle ruins, the medieval lanes, Château Eza and La Chèvre d'Or.
Villefranche-sur-Mer – a walk through the old town and the harbour
Walk Villefranche-sur-Mer from Quai Courbet: Cocteau's painted chapel, the Rue Obscure from 1260, Saint-Michel, the citadel and Plage des Marinières.
