Mountains by the sea!
The Côte d’Azur bears like jewels the scars of the Alps plunging into the Mediterranean.
Canyons and baous, capes and rocky peaks emerge from a green swell of larch, cork oak, olive trees, lavender…
Dozens of hilltop villages, including Vence, Gourdon, La Cadière d’Azur and La Garde-Freinet, watch the lights of the Côte d’Azur shimmer at their feet.
They line the gulfs and roadsides, the Promenade des Anglais and the Cap d’Antibes.
From the lemon trees of Menton to the jasmines of Grasse, plants are the queens of this kingdom where towns are named after gardens, from Hyères-les-Palmiers to Bormes-les-Mimosas.
