Côte d’Azur / France
Èze
Medieval village perched 429 metres above the Mediterranean.
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Discovering Èze
Èze is a commune on three levels, and that is the first thing to grasp before booking, with Èze-bord-de-mer at sea level, the perched village four hundred and thirty metres above, and the Col d’Èze higher still on the Grande Corniche. All three are linked by road, and by a path.
That path carries Nietzsche’s name; he walked it during his stays and is said to have conceived part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra on it. It climbs from the shore to the village in a good hour, steep and without shade. At the top, the exotic garden has occupied the castle ruins since 1949, with succulents, terraces and one of the widest panoramas on the coast.
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Where to stay in Èze
The perched village
Entirely pedestrian and medieval, all lanes and stairs, with the exotic garden at the summit.
Èze-bord-de-mer
The shoreline quarter, with its station, its pebble beaches and the start of the climb to the village.
The Moyenne Corniche
The road that serves the village, halfway up, the most spectacular of the three corniches between Nice and Monaco.
Col d’Èze and the Grande Corniche
The heights, the county park and the Revère fort, with the most open view along the coast.
The residential slopes
The terraced hillsides between village and sea, facing due south and sheltered from the western wind.
When to visit Èze
March - May
The best season for the Nietzsche path and the exotic garden, when the climb is still cool and the planting at its peak.
June - August
The village is saturated in the middle of the day by waves of day trippers. Early morning and late afternoon, it becomes itself again.
September - October
Low light, a warm sea and numbers falling away. The best window for the Grande Corniche and the footpaths.
November - February
Altitude tells, and the village runs cooler than the shore and the wind is more present. The panorama, though, is never sharper than in winter.
Getting to Èze
- Nice Côte d’Azur airport
- 20 km, about 30 minutes
- Station
- Èze-sur-Mer, at sea level, on the coastal line
- Monaco
- 10 km via the lower or middle corniche
- Shore to village
- The Nietzsche path, about 1 hr 15 of steep climbing
The year in brief
Spring
The exotic garden
Planted on the castle ruins in 1949, with succulents, terraces and the panorama from the highest point of the village.
All year
The Nietzsche path
The historic climb between Èze-bord-de-mer and the village, steep and unshaded. Best done early.
Autumn
The corniches
The three roads linking Nice to Menton are best driven out of season, when the traffic clears.
Good to know
The village is entirely pedestrian, cobbled and stepped, and luggage is carried up from the entrance car parks, which fill early in season.
Booking "in Èze" says nothing about altitude, and between the shore and the village lie four hundred and thirty metres of climb and a car journey.
Midday in summer belongs to the groups. The village is best before ten and after six, when it becomes lived-in again.
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Other Riviera addresses, minutes from Èze
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