While autumn hasn’t ended, in Nice you can see the exhibition «Mortimer et le Japon de papier» (‘Mortimer and the Paper Japan’): from 1 August 2026 to 31 January 2027 it is being shown by the Museum of Asian Arts on the Promenade des Anglais. Admission is free, and Edgar P. Jacobs’s comic is shown a
In autumn several major exhibitions are taking place on the French Riviera and in Monaco, each with its own closing date: one ends on 15 October, another on the 18th, most run until 31 October, and the Maeght Foundation stays open until 15 November. We have gathered six addresses, from prehistoric e
Off the coast of Cannes lie two islands that can be reached in a quarter of an hour by boat, yet the feeling is as if you have stepped into another era. On Sainte-Marguerite stands the fortress where the prisoner in the Man in the Iron Mask was held; on Saint-Honorat live monks whose community spans
On the western side of Nice, away from the sea, stand the white gates bearing the inscription Studios de la Victorine. From here French cinema has reached the world for more than a hundred years: “Children of Paradise” and “Day for Night” were filmed here, and now the site is being prepared for a re
Villefranche-sur-Mer lies a quarter of an hour’s drive from Nice, in a bay that deepens faster than almost any other on the coast. The old town here is not a set: people walk its 13th-century covered street to buy bread, the 16th-century citadel houses the town hall, and the chapel on the seafront w
Mougins stands six kilometres from the sea, north of Cannes, and is laid out like a snail: the streets spiral in rings around a hill, and inside the ring are a square, a church and a dozen restaurants. People come here for three things: Picasso, who lived here for the last twelve years of his life,
Èze is the most recognisable “eagle” village of the Côte d’Azur: stone streets climb the cliff to 429 metres, and at the top, among the ruins of the medieval castle, grow the cacti and agaves of the Exotic Garden. It is twelve kilometres from Nice and eight from Monaco, and you can reach the village
Théoule-sur-Mer is the last coastal town of the Alpes-Maritimes before the border with the Var department. Here the red cliffs of the Estérel massif fall straight into the sea, the Corniche d’Or runs along the shore — one of the most picturesque roads of the Riviera — and on the seafront stands a ch
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is two worlds in one commune: a medieval village perched on a rock between Monaco and Menton and the green headland below that, which in the 20th century attracted empresses, writers and architects. It is home to one of France’s oldest castles, an olive tree roughly two thousan
The Episcopal complex of Fréjus is one of the oldest Christian monuments in France: a 5th-century baptistery, the cathedral of Saint-Léonce, a two-storey Romanesque cloister and the former episcopal palace stand close together in the centre of the old town. The main treasure is the 14th-century wood
On Cap Martin, between the railway and the sea, stand two houses that people travel to the French Riviera for specifically: Villa E1027, devised by Irish designer Eileen Gray, and Le Corbusier’s wooden cabin of just over thirteen square metres. Since 2016 the cabin has been on the UNESCO World Herit
On the rocky headland between Port Vauban and the sea stands Fort Carré — a 16th-century four-pointed fortress from which France watched the border with Nice for centuries. Today it is an open-air museum: a four-hectare park, a walk along the curtain walls at a height of 43 metres, a full panorama o
Above the tiled roofs of Haut-de-Cagnes stands a squat fortress with battlements and machicolations — Grimaldi Castle. From the outside it is a military fortification of the early 14th century, inside — an Italian residence with an arcaded courtyard and a Baroque ceiling, and today it is also the to
Every early morning Irène Crampes puts on a mask, grabs a snorkel and goes underwater off the shores of Golfe-Juan. She does not have a degree in biology — she has stubbornness, a partner and the habit of returning to the same underwater “beds” year after year. She maps colonies of reef-building cor
In Saint-Jean, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, the Rasse family continues a tradition that reaches back to antiquity: here grapes are turned into wine not in cellars but under the hot Mediterranean sun. In large glass demijohns, left on roofs, a drink is born that the winemakers themselves call t
In Le Cannet, on the hills above Cannes, eight-year-old Ayana gained an assistant that no device can replace: a Labrador called Verity, trained to detect dangerous fluctuations in blood sugar. This is the first diabetic assistance dog in the Alpes-Maritimes department — she was officially handed ove
The grape harvest on the hills of Nice in 2026 began in the first days of September — earlier than usual. Bellet is the only appellation in France located entirely within the boundaries of a major city: about 55 hectares of terraces above the Var valley, nine estates and grape varieties that are fou
Actor Tomer Sisley has returned to screens in the six-part thriller La Cible, which premiered on 7 September on TF1. His character is a bodyguard whom the police suspect of abducting his own family. Sisley himself grew up on the Côte d’Azur: he moved to Antibes at the age of nine and calls those yea
In September 2026, among the eleven finalists of the new Miss Universe France contest were two residents of the Côte d’Azur: Lillu Emelin-Artuso from Antibes and Valérie Pavelin from Mandelieu-la-Napoule. The winner will be announced in October 2026 in Paris, and the international final will take pl
The Cannes studio Riviera Film Production is working at the Venice Film Festival for the first time. Its feature project “L’Art du Désir” is presented to the professional section of the 83rd Mostra, which runs on the Lido from 2 to 12 September 2026. The company is less than a year old — and this is
On Monday morning on the Rock of Monaco the first bell rang for pupils of the François d’Assise — Nicolas Barré primary school. The ceremony took place under the special attention of State Minister Christophe Mirman, who visited the institution and confirmed the priorities for the school year in the
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