Countryside

"Cities should be built in the countryside: the air is so much purer."
Henri Monnier

This selection of articles offers you all kinds of topics related to the hinterland of the French Riviera : visits, concerts, shows, architecture, exhibitions, museums, good addresses, toursime, shops etc ...

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  • Summit and pass of la Bonette

    Summit Bonette

    Idea for a walk between the French Riviera and the Barcelonnette valley by taking the highest tarmac road in France (2802 meters above sea level) then climbing some 58 meters of vertical drop to reach a panorama of exception at the top. Subject sensitive to vertigo, you must abstain!

  • Book Fair of Mouans-Sartoux

    Book Fair Mouans-Sartoux

    Autumn ride at the popular and cozy book fair of Mouans-Sartoux. Meetings of authors, dedications, screenings and discoveries to the program thanks to some video captures...

  • Visit Notre Dame de Vie in Mougins

    Notre Dame de Vie Mougins

    A small chapel set in a Tuscan garden surrounded by cypresses and olive trees housing a museum and a small photo exhibition.

  • Fernand Léger Museum

    Fernand Léger Museum Biot

    A few words and pictures to encourage you to visit the superb Fernand Léger museum in Biot, the temporary exhibition "Vis-à-vis, Fernand Léger and his friends", the permanent exhibition, the architecture and the layout of the places not forgetting the very pleasant garden, its refreshment bar with a view of the gigantic outdoor mosaic with bright and refreshing colors.

  • Visit Mougins

    Mougins

    The village, shaped like a snail from the sky, is located in the hinterland of Cannes. Many restaurants, artists' studios and art galleries attract tourists coming here on the trail of Pablo Picasso who stayed there for more than ten years.

  • Stroll in Biot

    Biot

    The pretty village of Biot perched on the heights of Sophia Antipolis attracts many visitors and tourists especially for its glass craftsmen but also for the calm and the coolness of its streets in full summer.

  • Exposition Glass is Biot Iful

    Exposition Glass is Biot Iful

    Some images of an exhibition in Biot, devoted to glassware, the art of blowing, deforming, kneading glass to transform it into an object of art.

  • Walk to the Authion

    Authion

    One of the magics of the French Riviera lies in the proximity of the mountains that plunge into the Mediterranean Sea. The area of Authion accessible from the Turini pass offers a breathtaking view, like a first morning of the world. The big blue opens 180 ° from Provence to the Gulf of Genoa, not to mention Corsica visible a few days a year.

  • Alpha Wolf Park

    Alpha Wolf Park

    Far from the seaside, the French Riviera has other tourist attractions especially in its hinterland, which will delight young and old. Alpha Wolf Park is a perfect example. Discover the wolf, in the middle of the forest, in this unique park in France.