Nice — Sights
Where the waves rattle the pebbles all day long.
- Promenade des Anglais — Seven kilometres of seafront, blue chairs and a pebble beach
- Castle Hill (Colline du Château) — Free hilltop park with the whole bay on one side and the port on the other
- Vieux Nice (Old Town) — Ochre lanes with laundry overhead, a Baroque cathedral, gelato on the square
- Cours Saleya Market — Flowers and fruit every morning, antiques on Mondays
- Place Masséna — Red façades, a chequerboard floor and glowing figures on poles
- Port Lympia & Rauba Capeu — Round the cliff memorial to a harbour of pastel houses and boats
- Matisse Museum & Cimiez — Matisse's Nice years in a red villa among olive trees
- Marc Chagall National Museum — A museum Chagall helped design for his Bible paintings
- Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Nicholas — Five green-and-gold onion domes rising among the palms
- Villefranche-sur-Mer — A pastel harbour village on a deep bay, 10 minutes from Nice
- Èze Village & Exotic Garden — A stone village on a cliff, and the sea from a cactus garden at the top
- Monaco (Monte-Carlo) — Palace guard change, the casino and a harbour of superyachts in a day
- Saint-Paul-de-Vence — Galleries in a walled hill village where Chagall is buried
- Cannes & Antibes day trip — Antibes ramparts and Picasso in the morning, Cannes' film-festival seafront after
- Coco Beach & Mont Boron walk — A rocky swimming cove locals use, with a pine-forest lookout above
- Cimiez Monastery Gardens — Rose arbours and a long look down on Nice
- Musée Masséna — Old Nice and the Riviera inside a Belle Epoque villa
- Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate — A tiled Baroque dome over a sunny square
- Palais Lascaris — A painted-ceiling palace with an old pharmacy
- Promenade du Paillon — A long city park of fountains and a misting mirror pool
- Parc du Mont Boron — Pine-forest trails with views over the bay
- Cascade du Château (Castle Hill waterfall) — A 30-metre artificial waterfall on Castle Hill
- Église Saint-Jacques (Gésu) — A gilded Baroque Jesuit church in the old town
- Cap de Nice and Plage de la Réserve — A rocky coastal path with swimming spots