Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur
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Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur

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Publisher
Lonely Planet
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781788681735
Print ISBN
9781786572806

Côte d’Azur

The Three Corniches Road Trips

Nice

Arrière-Pays Niçois

Peillon

Peille

Villefranche-sur-Mer

St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Beaulieu-sur-Mer

Èze

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Menton

Gorbio

L’Arrière-Pays

St-Paul de Vence

Vence

Les Gorges du Loup

Tourrettes-sur-Loup

Grasse

Mougins

Antibes

Biot

Cannes

Îles de Lérins

Île Ste-Marguerite

Île St-Honorat

Corniche de l’Esterel

St-Raphaël

Fréjus

Presqu’île de St-Tropez

St-Tropez

Grimaud

Gassin

Ramatuelle

Gigaro

Côte d’Azur

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Why Go?

Once upon a time, everyone called this glamorous stretch of Mediterranean coast the French Riviera; then in 1888 author Stéphen Liégeard dubbed it La Côte d’Azur, the name stuck and the rest is history.
Whatever you prefer to call it, the seashore that extends from St-Tropez to the French-Italian border is one of the world’s great seaside destinations, packed with gorgeous beaches, luxury hotels, designer bars, belle-époque villas, coastal trails, red-rock headlands and offshore islands. From Monte Carlo’s casino to Nice’s Promenade des Anglais to the Cannes film festival and St-Tropez’s yacht harbour, the Côte d’Azur is home to some of the most iconic spots in Europe’s collective consciousness.
Beyond the coast, the region is also home to some spectacular hilltop villages and mountain scenery, along with vineyards, flower farms that feed the French perfume industry and more than its fair share of great art museums.

Driving Distances (km)

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Best Places to Eat

A Le Mirazur
A Peixes
A Bistrot Gourmand Clovis

Best Places to Stay

A Château de Valmer
A Les Rosées
A Hôtel La Pérouse

Côte d’Azur Highlights

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1 Tour du Cap-Ferrat Walking past billionaires’ mansions and dramatic rocky coves.
2 Nice Splitting your time between beaches, bistros, museums and festivals in the Côte d’Azur’s unofficial capital.
3 Sentier du Littoral Taking a dramatic cape-to-cape walk along Roquebrune-Cap Martin’s high.drama coastal path.
4 St-Tropez Sipping pastis and watching pétanque players under the pl...

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Welcome to Provence & the Côte d’Azur
  3. Provence & the Côte d’Azur Top 15
  4. Need to Know
  5. Accommodation
  6. First Time Provence & the Côte d’Azur
  7. What’s New
  8. If You Like…
  9. Month by Month
  10. Itineraries
  11. Activities
  12. Eat & Drink Like a Local
  13. Travel with Children
  14. Regions at a Glance
  15. Côte d’Azur
  16. Monaco
  17. Var
  18. Bouches-du-Rhône
  19. The Camargue
  20. Vaucluse
  21. The Luberon
  22. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
  23. Understand Provence & the Côte d’Azur
  24. Provence & the Côte d’Azur Today
  25. History
  26. Painters in Provence
  27. Cinema & the Arts
  28. Provençal Living
  29. Directory A–Z
  30. Transport
  31. Language
  32. Behind the Scenes
  33. Our Writers