Things to do in Menton
Around Menton, Notrebellefrance lists 15 tourist sites within 18 km, including 4 villages, 3 museums, 2 gardens and 2 castles. Not to be missed: Palais princier de Monaco, Eze and Jardin botanique exotique de Menton.
Palais princier de Monaco
Official residence of the princes of Monaco since 1297, this palace perched on the Rock hosts the changing of the guard every noon, one of the most-watched attractions in the Principality.
Eze
Located just after Nice, going towards Menton, Èze stretches along the sea from Cap Roux to the Pointe de Cabuel. Perched like an eagle's nest at the top of an imposing and superb cliff, you will see the village and its pale ochre church from afar.
Jardin botanique exotique de Menton
Musée de la Préhistoire Régionale
The museum offers a journey into the heart of human history on the Mediterranean coast over the last million years: slide shows, frescoes, collections of objects discovered at the region's archaeological sites.
Sainte-Agnès
You reach this village by the hairpins of a narrow road crossing a terraced landscape planted with olive trees and mimosas.
Château de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
The castle once encompassed the whole village; in the fifteenth century, the village broke away and the keep alone took the name château.
Musée océanographique de Monaco
Grotte de l'Observatoire
Jardin exotique de Monaco
An Eden for succulent plants, this garden laid out on the side of rock walls offers an exceptional panoramic view over the Principality of Monaco and the French and Italian Rivieras.
Lucéram
Villa Grecque Kérylos
Between Nice and Monaco, the Villa Kérylos is the reconstruction, unique in the world, of a sumptuous palace of Ancient Greece, entirely furnished and decorated.
Villa et Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild
The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is one of the most beautiful Renaissance-style palaces of the Côte d'Azur, built on the summit of Cap Ferrat between 1905 and 1912 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat by Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (1864–1934).
Coaraze
Amid olive trees, the cobbled lanes of Coaraze lead to the thirteenth-century church, adorned in the seventeenth century, under Italian Baroque influence, with 118 cherubs in a polychrome setting.
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