Page 235 - (DK Eyewitness) Back Roads Travel Guide - France

DRIVE 22: The Riviera Artists’ Trail 233

PLAN YOUR DRIVE
Start/finish: Nice to Mougins.
La Gaude
Number of days: 2 to 3, allowing half a
Église
St-Nicolas day to explore Vieux-Nice.
La Madeleine
St-Antoine
Distance: 90 km (55 miles).
Magnan
Ste- PROMENADE NICE Road conditions: Generally very good,
with clear signposting.
Marguerite DES ANGLAIS
Les LA VOIE RAPIDE
Pugets When to go: Between April and June,
before holidaymakers fill the French
Ste-Hélène
C o r n i c h e d u V a r
Riviera, or between September and
St-Laurent-
Le Var
du-Var October, when rates drop.
La Californie
Opening hours: Shops and churches
Musée Renoir
are usually open from 10am to 5pm.
Haut-de-Cagnes
Nice Côte- Many museums and major sights close
CAGNES-SUR-MER d‘Azur
on Mondays and/or Tuesdays, as well as
public holidays.
Cros- de Cagnes
Main market days: Nice: Tue–Sun
(antiques on Mon); Vence: Tue and Fri;
Biot: Tue; Antibes: Tue–Sun.
Bouches-du-Loup Baie des
Ang es Shopping: Shop for glassware in Biot
Marina Baie des Anges
0 kilometres 2 and pottery in Vallauris.
Villeneuve-
Loubet-Plage Major festivals: Nice: Carnival, Feb–
0 miles 2
Mar; Jazz Festival, Jul; Cagnes-sur-
Mer: Fête de l’Olivier, Mar; Vence: Fête
des Fontaines, May; Festival des Nuits
du Sud, Jul.
KEY
Drive route
DAYTRIP OPTIONS
Those who want a taste of times past
Above left Panaromic view of the landscape and the Mediterranean, can pay a visit to enduringly popular
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, see p236 Below left Musée Picasso in Antibes, Antibes, while artists seeking inspi-
see p236 Below right Ancienne Cathédrale de la Nativité de Notre-Dame ration should spend the morning in
in Vence, see p235 Mougins. For more details, see p237.