Nice

Nice is the Riviera’s only real city, and that changes everything: it lives all year, with its markets, its museums and its university. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2021, not for a single monument but for what it is as a whole — the winter resort town of the Riviera, of which the Promenade des Anglais is the most visible trace.

It reads from the bottom up. On the shore, the Promenade and its seven kilometres of pebbles. In the middle, the old town and Cours Saleya, where the flower market gives way to antique dealers on Mondays. Above, the Castle Hill, then Cimiez with its Roman arenas, where Matisse is buried, and Mont Boron with its forest and its fort.