Menton, last stop on the French Riviera, has two major markers of creativity and sophistication, one gastronomic, one artistic: Mirazur, the outstanding restaurant of chef Mauro Colagreco, and the Jean Cocteau Museum, dedicated to a poet and artist who represents the artful high life along the coast.
Key figures about the American presence on the Riviera according to a study by tourist officials show that the percentage of visitors from the U.S. has decreased significantly over the past 25 years but that Americans still like it, they really like it.
The many faces of Cannes: playground for the well-to-do, winter retreat for golden-haired retires, showcase for film stars, promenade for daytrippers, and site of France’s largest summit meeting ever. Plus some boutique hotel suggestions.
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, returns to us from the south of France after feeling the sun, the rocks and the water of the Riviera with his toes. “From the deep, narrow creeks (calanques) of Marseille to [...]
March 6, 2011. Here are four French lessons that I learned in February on the Riviera and in Alsace. 1. Carnival in Nice Nice’s Carnival, the 3-week period of parades leading up to Mardi Gras [...]
Feb. 25, 2011 – Last weekend I returned to Menton, the town on the French Riviera just over the border from Italy, on the occasion of its annual Lemon Festival. I’d last been to Menton 15 years ago when I’d written about it for my guidebook to France.
In the context of France Revisited’s study of the relationship between trees and place, three images at Pointe du Layet on the Riviera.
By James d’Entremont I recently returned to Marseille for the first time in over four decades, and came away wondering how I could have waited so long to go back. My first visit was an odd [...]
Stephanie Sommers catches the spirit, the spectacle, the excitement, and the humor of the king of French Carnival celebrations in Nice and its pucker-lipped little sister, the Lemon Festival at Menton, in a report of the [...]
