Tips for exploring cities on foot
Each article describes a real route: where to start, what you will see at each stop, how much time to allow and what to bring.
Èze
Visiting Èze on foot: the hilltop village, stop by stop
Èze is a medieval village clinging to a rock more than four hundred metres above the Mediterranean. You visit it on foot, and only on foot. Here is how to prepare for the climb, what you will see on the way and how much time to allow.
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Visiting Monaco on foot: from the Rock to Monte-Carlo, stop by stop
Monaco fits into two square kilometres, but between the Rock and Monte-Carlo there are cliffs, staircases and seven centuries of history. Here is how to cross the principality on foot, in eight stops and three kilometres.
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Visiting Menton on foot: Cocteau, lemons and the border
Menton is a border town: Italian in its façades and its cooking, French by political decision since 1860. On foot, in two kilometres, you go from the seafront to the old cemetery on the hill, and on to the border itself.
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Visiting Antibes on foot: in Picasso’s footsteps, from the ramparts to Fort Carré
In the autumn of 1946, Picasso painted for sixty-nine days in the Château Grimaldi, facing the sea. This route follows his town: the ramparts, the museum that bears his name, the market where he cycled to buy sardines, and the fort where Napoleon spent two weeks in prison.
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Visiting Cannes on foot: the Croisette, the Forville market and Le Suquet
Cannes is two towns laid one over the other: the town of the twenty-four steps and the palaces, and the town of the market and the Suquet hill, which watched the sea a thousand years before cinema. This route crosses both in 2.2 km.
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Visiting Nice on foot, differently: crimes and scandals of the Riviera
Nice is usually visited for its light. This route takes it from the other side: a suspicious fire at the Opera, poisoners in the Lascaris palace, spies on Castle Hill and a smugglers’ submarine in the harbour. Ten stops, 3.2 km, and a city you will never look at the same way again.
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Visiting Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on foot: from Villa Ephrussi to the coastal path
Cap Ferrat is the peninsula of gated villas, but its shoreline belongs to everyone: a path circles it, between Aleppo pines and the Mediterranean. This route crosses the cape from north to south, from a baroness’s villa to the house Cocteau tattooed.
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Visiting Beaulieu-sur-Mer on foot: Villa Kérylos and the Belle Époque
Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a small Belle Époque resort with a famous microclimate, where a Hellenist rebuilt an ancient Greek house facing the sea. This short route links the seafront promenade, Villa Kérylos, the village and the Baie des Fourmis.
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Visiting Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on foot: from Le Corbusier’s cabin to the castle of the year 1000
Between the shore and the hilltop village of Roquebrune lie two hundred metres of cliff and a thousand years of architecture: a nine-square-metre cabin designed by Le Corbusier, a modernist villa by Eileen Gray, a Carolingian castle and an olive tree that saw them all born.
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Walking through Grasse old town: route and practical tips
A square, a fountain, a perfume-house façade: in Grasse, a walk can become the thread of a story. Here is how to plan your old-town visit and continue it with The Perfume Route.
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