Things to do in Nice
Around Nice, Notrebellefrance lists 44 tourist sites within 25 km, including 12 castles, 8 museums, 6 waterfalls and 6 villages. Not to be missed: Eze, Saint-Paul-de-Vence and Palais princier de Monaco.
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.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
A fortified village become a high place of modern art, Saint-Paul-de-Vence has drawn artists and galleries for a century into its cobbled lanes perched above the Baie des Anges.
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.
La Clue de la Cerise
The Clue de la Cerise lies in the Estéron valley, cradled in a limestone setting, and will carry you along with the water through superb narrow passages that delight young and old.
Gorges de la Vésubie
It is here, from the charming hamlet of Cros d'Utelle, that the route starts, where you will admire the skill of the Ancients while treading a wide path whose paving is still intact in places.
Cascade de Courmes
A magnificent little village on the left bank of the Loup, Courmes clings to the mountainside, at 620 metres' altitude, in the hollow of the Pic des Courmettes.
Les Grandes marmites
The place called "Pont du Loup", on the road linking Grasse to Tourrettes-sur-Loup, marks the entrance to this defile. From there you must look up to the sky to see the village of Gourdon, perched above the cliffs.
La Cascade du Saut du Loup
The Saut du Loup is a waterfall nestled in the heart of the Loup gorges, in the Alpes-Maritimes, between the villages of Gourdon and Pont-du-Loup.
Eglise Orthodoxe de St-Nicolas de Nice
Musée Marc Chagall
Palais des ducs de Savoie
The Palace of the Dukes of Savoy was built from 1559 by order of Emmanuel-Philibert, Duke of Savoy.
Palais Lascaris
Château de Nice
The Castle Hill, an obligatory walk for anyone wishing to discover the town in its setting of hills or enjoy its summer coolness, became this island of greenery only during the nineteenth century.
Musée Matisse de Nice
La grotte du Lazaret
Château de Crémat
Citadelle Saint-Elme
Musée des Arts asiatiques
Emerging from an artificial lake inside a seven-hectare floral park, facing the Nice-Côte d'Azur airport, this elegant building rests on the geometric forms of the square and the circle, symbols respectively of earth and sky in Asia.
Parc Phoenix
Zooparc du Cap Ferrat
Between sky and sea, on Cap-Ferrat, in a unique setting, discover many animals among tropical and Mediterranean vegetation.
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).
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.
Château-musée Grimaldi de Cagnes-sur-Mer
Château de Villeneuve-Loubet
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.
Grotte de l'Observatoire
Château de Vaugrenier
Musée océanographique de Monaco
Musée Picasso d'Antibes
Musée Picasso (Antibes)
Founded on the old acropolis of the Greek town of Antipolis, a Roman castrum and residence of bishops in the Middle Ages, the château Grimaldi has been inhabited since 1385 by the Monegasque family that lent it its name.
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.
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.
Sainte-Agnès
You reach this village by the hairpins of a narrow road crossing a terraced landscape planted with olive trees and mimosas.
Musée International de la Parfumerie
Inaugurated in 1989 in Grasse, the "cradle of traditional perfumery", the International Perfume Museum traces, through exceptional collections, the history of perfumes, but also of soaps, make-up and cosmetics, over four thousand years.
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.
Lucéram
Gourdon
In the twelfth century, Gourdon was a military site providing protection against frequent Saracen raids.
Château de Gourdon
Jardin botanique exotique de Menton
Cascade du Casteu
Cascade de Gairaut
Cap d'Antibes
Menton
