Côte d'Azur

The French Riviera and the south of France — Mediterranean light, stone squares and slow, elegant evenings.

From the sea-cliff corniches of the Côte d'Azur to the arcaded squares of Montpellier and the rose-brick streets of Toulouse, this is southern France at its most cinematic.

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Heritage

A little history.

The Greeks founded Nice as Nikaia around 350 BC and Marseille before it; Rome then laid the Via Aurelia along the coast, and its milestones still surface between Fréjus and Antibes. For centuries this was a frontier — Nice belonged to Savoy until 1860, which is why its old town feels closer to Genoa than to Paris.

The Riviera as we know it was invented by the British and Russian aristocracy in the 19th century, who wintered in Nice and Cannes and paid for the Promenade des Anglais. In the 1920s the Murphys persuaded a hotel in Antibes to stay open through summer, and the coast became a summer destination almost overnight — Fitzgerald, Picasso, Matisse and Chanel followed.

Inland, the south has a longer memory still: Montpellier's medical school, founded in 1220, is the oldest in the world still teaching, and Toulouse grew rich on pastel dye in the 1500s before becoming the home of Airbus and European aerospace.

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