Ramatuelle on the French Riviera

5 July 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Ramatuelle (Provençal: Ramatuela) is a commune in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southeastern France on the French Riviera. In 2016, it had a population of 2,077.   read more…

Le Cannet on the French Riviera

30 June 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Rue Saint-Sauveur © Jpchevreau/cc-by-sa-3.0

Le Cannet is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Le Cannet was part of Cannes until 1778, when it was made a separate commune.   read more…

Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera

23 March 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Cagnes-sur-Mer (literally Cagnes on Sea) is a French Riviera town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in south-eastern France located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, between Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Villeneuve-Loubet. It stretches along a cove offering nearly four kilometers (2.5 miles) of beach and is surrounded by hills, including that of the castle which rises to 300 feet (91 meters) above sea level.   read more…

Porquerolles on the French Riviera

23 December 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Porquerolles, also known as the Île de Porquerolles, is an island in the Îles d’Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. Its land area is 1,254 hectares (12.54 km²; 4.84 sq mi) and in 2004 its population was about 200. Since 2010, the island also hosts a jazz festival each summer (“Jazz à Porquerolles”).   read more…

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera

5 March 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  8 minutes

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Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France between Monaco and Menton. The name was changed from Roquebrune to differentiate the town from Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the neighboring Var department.   read more…

Port-Cros National Park on the French Riviera

15 November 2019 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Environment Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Port-Cros © Richard Gertis/cc-by-sa-2.5

Port-Cros National Park (French: Parc national de Port-Cros) is a French national park established on the Mediterranean island of Port-Cros, east of Toulon and Hyères. The area around the islands of Porquerolles, Port-Cros, Île du Levant and others, is located ten kilometers off the French Riviera. It also administers natural areas in some surrounding locales.   read more…

Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes

3 June 2019 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera, Hotels Reading Time:  7 minutes

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Sea water pool © John Jason Junior/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built in 1869 as a private mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1887. Rudolf August Oetker, a German industrialist, and his wife Maja von Malaisé first spotted the mansion while sailing on the Côte d’Azur in 1964; they bought the hotel five years later. For many years the hotel did not accept credit cards. Cash only was accepted, though most guests wired money ahead of their stay. In 2006 this policy was dropped.   read more…

Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera

27 May 2019 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Saint-Paul-de-Vence is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France with 3500 inhabitants. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera, it is well known for its modern and contemporary art museums and galleries such as Fondation Maeght which is located nearby.   read more…

The Nice Côte d’Azur Opera House

29 December 2017 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, French Riviera, Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Opéra de Nice is the principal opera venue in Nice on the French Riviera. It offers three types of performances: operas, ballets and classical concerts ; and houses the Ballet Nice Méditerranée and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. The “petit théâtre en bois” (wooden theatre) was first created in 1776 by Marquess Alli-Maccarani. Sold in 1787 to a group of gentry, it reopened in 1790 under the name “Théâtre Royal”. In 1826, the city of Nice, encouraged by King Charles Félix, bought it from its owners and had it demolished and rebuilt. It was inaugurated in 1828 with Giovanni Pacini‘s Il Barone di Bolsheim. In 1856, a great ball was organized in the honour of King Victor Emmanuel II.   read more…

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