Top Reasons to Go

Picasso and Company: As artists have long loved the Côte d’Azur, it is blessed with superb art museums, including the Fondation Maeght in St-Paul and the Musée Picasso in Antibes.

Èze, Island in the Sky: The most perfectly situated of the coast’s villages perchés, Èze has some of the most breathtaking views this side of a NASA space capsule.

Nice, Queen of the Riviera: With its bonbon-color palaces, blue Baie des Anges, time-stained Old Town, and Musée Matisse, this is one of France’s most colorful cities.

Sun-kissed Cap d’Antibes: Bordering well-hidden mansions and zillion-dollar hotels, the Sentier Tirepoil is a spectacular footpath along the sea.