Top 5 VILLAGES on the Côte d‘Azur | French Riviera Travel Guide
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Discover some of the most beautiful villages in South of France!
Did you know the French Riviera is not only beaches and clear water, but it’s dotted with lots of tiny villages, provencal style? We’ve chosen our top 5 on the Côte d’Azur that you absolutely have to see. One thing they all have in common? They’re hilltop villages (“villages perchés”) dating back to the middle ages. And that’s definitely part of their stunning beauty!
So, let’s go and check out
- Gourdon
- Eze village
- Saint-Paul-de-Vence
- Biot
- Mougins
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GOURDON
📍Gourdon: goo.gl/maps/DVjZ3hz3q443EB9c6
📍📷 Place Victoria/view point: goo.gl/maps/JsodFbnE1kpRX2qz5
ℹ️ Tourist office: www.gourdon06.fr/en
🍦Ice Cream place “Le Glacier de Gourdon” (opens mid march, closed in winter): goo.gl/maps/pkSyaEnTgW8pigkz9
📍Meadow for picnic/ball games etc: goo.gl/maps/rssMTni3SX4nRUTd8
🪂 paragliding: Centre de Parapente (tandem flights etc.): www.ascendance06.com
EZE VILLAGE
📍Eze village: goo.gl/maps/3GwEqmPEB93QDMXa9
📷 Exotic garden Eze (attention: entrance fee was raised to 7€): www.jardinexotique-eze.fr/en/
ℹ️ Tourist office: www.eze-tourisme.com/en/
🍽️ Château Eza (restaurant with a view): www.chateaueza.com/
🍽️ Le Nid d’Aigle (restaurant/salon de thé): www.leniddaigle-eze.com/
🍽️ Chèvre d’Or (hotel/restaurant/2 Michelin stars): www.chevredor.com/
📍🥾Start of Nietzsche trail in Eze village (Chemin de Nietzsche): goo.gl/maps/aQ3dZ92mGjnvchLU6
SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE
📍Saint-Paul-de-Vence: goo.gl/maps/XiAJ8HjEC5PYwCiq6
ℹ️ Tourist office: www.saint-pauldevence.com/en/
🎨 Maeght Foundation: www.fondation-maeght.com/ (closed for extension works until July 2023), goo.gl/maps/yPj1q4nJLrRpXb8KA
🍽️ Colombe d’Or: www.la-colombe-dor.com/indexE..., goo.gl/maps/bRVLddcfrpqSUm3b9
🪦 Chagall’s tomb: goo.gl/maps/XQh1a8jPvCdYjq6P9
📍📷 viewpoint: goo.gl/maps/6wid5NE5eex7K7Cr5
📍🥾Fortification discovery walk: goo.gl/maps/VXoeG7rR5P2rJXSj6
BIOT
📍Biot: goo.gl/maps/TBsxo28NNS2VEWQc9
ℹ️ Tourist Office: www.biot-tourisme.com/
🏺Verrerie de Biot: www.verreriebiot.com/en/
🏺Verrerie Pierini: www.pierini-glassstudio.com/
📍⛪ Church Sainte Marie-Madeleine: goo.gl/maps/a4kyzJc8DkveLiuSA
🥁 Templar festival 2023: www.biot-tourisme.com/fiches/...
🎶 Classical music festival “Les Heures Musicales de Biot”: usually in early summer, ask for date at tourist office!
🎶 “Fête de la musique”: 21 June (in all of France)
🍽️ Restaurant Les Arcades: goo.gl/maps/uYwevZeQBWgwsbws5
MOUGINS
📍Mougins: goo.gl/maps/MD11f97VwANsYHfF7
ℹ️ Tourist office: mouginstourisme.com/?lang=en
👨🍳 Culinary Festival “Les Etoiles de Mougins”: lesetoilesdemougins.com/
🍽️ Restaurant L’Amandier: www.amandier.fr/en-fr/
🎨 MACM - Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins: www.mouginsmusee.com/en
📷 Centre de la Photographie de Mougins: centrephotographiemougins.com...
Aila’s website with lots of info on the French Riviera: azurblau.fr/
Music:
www.epidemicsound.com/
Photos/Maeght Foundation:
1) Cour Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti: L’Homme qui marche I 1960. L’homme qui marche II 1960. Grande Femme Debout I (Femme debout I). 1960 Grande Femme debout II, (Femme Debout II) 1960 Grande tête, 1960. © ADAGP, Paris 2022. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation
2) Le Jardin des sculptures. Joan Miró, Personnage 1972, Résine. Joan Miró, Personnage 1970, Bronze. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation © ADAGP, Paris 2022
3) Le Jardin des sculptures. Alexander Calder, Les Renforts, 1964, Tôle peinte. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation Maeght © ADAGP, Paris 2022
4) Georges Braque, Les Poissons, 1963, Mosaïque. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation Maeght © ADAGP, Paris 2022
5) Le Labyrinthe, Miró. 1964-1973. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation Maeght © ADAGP, Paris 2022
6) Impluvium - Architecture de la Fondation. Photo Olivier Amsellem - Archives Fondation
Footage Templar festival: thanks a lot to the city of Biot!
Drone footage: © Oliver Murko
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00:00 Introduction
00:25 Gourdon
02:30 Eze village
05:20 Saint-Paul-de-Vence
07:36 Biot
09:27 Mougins
12:41 summary/preview
UPDATE May 2023: the entrance fee for the exotic garden in Eze was raised to 7€. Still worth going, we think!
Gourdon is probably my favorite with Tourettes sur Loup. I love the proximity with nature. There's also the pain d'épices baker who fantastic! It's located in a cul sac on the right hand side of the village main street.
It’s funny that you mention the pain d’épices (~ginger bread) from Gourdon: my doctor told me about that same spot just the other day!!! So there must really be something about it… and yes, lovely Tourette’s-sur-Loup. About time we covered that village!!! 😊😊😊
Another great video! Thank you for sharing! ❤🎉
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So far we've gone to Eze and Menton, both are wonderful!
what a breath of fresh air and not the typical places that are so commercialused even of those in Italy. Always the same pkaces. Nice cintent. .
Best videos ever! The links and travel details you provide help others make their travel experiences meaningful and memorable. I feel lucky to have access to them.
Thank you very much! 😍
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I ❤️ your videos and your voice 😊
Thank you! 😊
Excellent locations! I'm so grateful for the descriptions! 🎉Danke.
I love your work.❤
Thank you 🙏😍
Awesome video, thanks very much for sharing!
Must see Eze with this amazing view!
Your videos are amazing! I'm loving them and learning a lot too! All the best.
Thank you so much! 🤩
Breath taking. Thank you!!!! 😊
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The museum of Classic Art in Mougins us going to become the FAMM, dedicated to female artists.
Thanks for pointing that out! We heard something was changing since we went there… but hadn’t heard details, sounds great!
Always enjoy your videos thank you. I’m interested in the hike you mention from upper EZE down to the lower part. Are there any nice views on that walk please, as I’m a keen photographer and will be visiting EZE when I’m in Nice later this year? Cheers from Australia
Thank you! Yes, pretty sure there are a few nice views, there always are when being high above the water around here and then changing height levels. It’s been a while that we actually walked all the way down from Eze village to “Eze bord de mer”, so not able to point out a specific spot. If you haven’t already, maybe watch our videos „top 10 lookout points“ and „Nice-Monaco by car“: you’ll see many places that you’ll want to capture (you might need a car to get to most of the spots, though, unfortunately)
@@rivierago okay great thanks
great video!... beautiful villages! I'm hoping to spend 1 - 3 months in Cote d'Azur to paint the landscape there (Im new to oil painting). May I ask could you possibly suggest to me how I might go about finding a studio apartment in a fishing village? (Im on a budget) Thanks a million I appeciate it!
Hi, thank you! What time of year are you planning to come? If you avoid July/August it’ll be a lot cheaper already. And what you spend also depends on the village you pick. Fishing villages are e.g. Villefranche-sur-Mer and Saint-Tropez, especially in summer they are very expensive. Further to the west there are Sanary-sur-Mer or La Ciotat or Cassis. To look for a place just check websites like Airbnb - and there are sites like www.lacartedescolocs.fr/ where you can find roommates.
Mee too❤
Tolles Video, danke 🤩 Grüsse, Monika B'brodt
What are your favorite villages on the French Riviera/Côte d’Azur? We’ll soon present more… so hard to decide!
Grassr
Mougins. Best location, awesome view, great restaurants, top notch museum.
Eze anda Mougins, I was there last year
Loved your video. Beautiful villages. Very well-photographed, organized information, with nice summary flash-cards -- professional-looking. Do you have suggestion for a base to see these villages? We are planning a trip to Provence starting from Aix-en-provence with a base in Avignon or St-Remy, but can add 3-days for this area. Also curious if you have made any such videos for Provence or other regions of France. France is so beautiful, with so many options. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! A good base is everywhere in the department Alpes-Maritimes, so anything between Cannes, Antibes, Nice is perfect. Also the hinterland. You could pick one of the villages directly. None of the places will be more than an hour away, no matter what you pick (unless you stay way up in the mountains).
We’re planning on doing videos in Provence also, but so far it’s only been the Côte d’Azur/French Riviera…
Visit all the villages on the way , la gaude, saint jeannet, old Vence , saint Paul de Vence , thourettes sur loup , haut de Cagnes-sur-Mer mer, . Find to stay in Vence area. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Splendid video. I am a videographer visiting often the French Riviera, would love to collab at some point to make a great documentary
Sounds cool - would you mind getting in touch via Instagram?
Tre bon. Merci. (I hope I spelled those words correctly)
Thank you! Who are we to correct your French 😉 (but „très“ would be the correct spelling, otherwise 👌) 😅
@@rivierago Ooohhh, that's right. Thanks.
thanks for a short trip to experience through your travel information, but I wanted to know how to go (bus/train or car) there and how much the trip costs plus timetable
Hi Tina! It’s definitely easier to get around by car once you leave the coast. Trains don’t go to the villages we’re showing, but there are buses. We use the mobile application “Moovit”, it shows you exactly what bus to use, the times etc. depending on where you want to go and start your journey (make sure to switch to settings for “Cote d’Azur”)
I enjoy your videos! Hope you can answer a couples of questions. We are spending 3 nights in Antibes, 2 nights in Nice and 2 nights in Monte Carlo. We were only planning to rent a car for one or two days so we can visit villages in hilltop as it sounds like this is the best way to visit the villages. Am I correct that a car is the best way? We definitely want to visit St Paul de Vence. Any advise would be welcomed. This is our first trip to the area and we are going in mid July.
Hey, yes, it’s easiest to take a car to the villages! By car, you could probably do 2 villages in one day without having to rush too much. Maybe St.Paul and Gourdon or Tourrettes-sur-Loup in one day and Eze Village on another day (coupled with Cap Ferrat, for example). Enjoy!
@@rivierago Thanks for your quick reply. It sounds like it would probably be best to rent the car on our last day in Antibes rather than Nice. Do you agree? I think we will do St. Paul and Tourettes-our-loup. There is so much to do but I don't want to over book myself. You can't do everything in one visit in 7 days. I already took St. Tropez off the list because the ferry takes 2 hours there and back. Thanks for your advice.
You’re absolutely right: take it easy, half the fun is enjoying the vibes, the lifestyle, the balmy evenings on the beach (and/or in an outdoor restaurant). Take your time in Antibes (different beaches, old town, the other side: Juan-les-Pins, and the cape!), a day in st. Paul and Tourrettes-sur-Loup, then enough time for Nice… and Monaco!
Bravo et merci de prononcer les noms en français et non pas à l'anglaise. C'est très rares les personnes qui font des vidéos en respectant la prononciation. En général c'est n'importe quoi, vous, c'est du très bon travail.
J'habite près de Grasse, dans la région de ces endroits merveilleux, le plus proche est Gourdon à 50 minutes de voiture, j'y vais plusieurs fois par an même si je connais chaque ruelle dans tous les détails.
Merci! On essaie 😅, c’est du français avec un accent allemand 😉
@@rivieragoConnaissez-vous le "passage des Scornaches" à Gourdon. C'est sur la gauche dans la rue principale, un petit passage sous une maison. Si cela vous intéresse, je connais l'origine du nom SCORNACHES. J'ai mis du temps à trouver.
@@christianc9894 non, on ne connaît pas! Et oui, on est toujours curieux d’apprendre du nouveau, bien sûr 😄
@@rivieragoLes scornaches étaient les ordures de l'époque, les villageois allaient les déverser du haut de la falaise coté est. Pour rejoindre l'endroit de déversement ils empruntaient ce petit passage, d'où le nom qui est resté .
Difficile à placer dans une conversation mais intéressant tout de même je trouve.
Cordialement.
@@christianc9894 merci! La Côte d’Azur est un merveilleux endroit avec tellement d’histoire (et petites et grandes histoires) 🤩
Great videos! Do you know which are the best way to get these villages from Nice or Cannes?
Thank you! You can get everywhere by bus… it might require some patience and time. Try the app “Moovit” which tells you exactly how to get from A to B
This is amazing video, thank you for showing the quality content and information + travel guidance for people who love travelling, exploring beautiful destinations like this. Hope to see more from you. ❤✈️🛫🌁⛰️🛣️🛤️🏕️
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i have three best frienfs. One owns one house and 2 apts in Jakarta, 2 villas and a beach house in Bali 😮 and 3 pief-a-terre in Paris. One owns apt in Milan, a country house outside Mikan, a villa in Lake Como, 1 apt in London and a country house in Cheshire, England. one has a 4-storeys house in the prime location in Jakarts, and a complex villa on the suburb. Moi, just a Milanbapt but gave it up as it was only rented, a Balinese vilka in the rural area of Jakarta which I run as BnB as pastime.
What's the point of listing all these properties ? Nothing to do with the video.
Hello, wonderful videos presentation!
We love to visit the beautiful villages for break.
Will you help to find a reasonable place to rent for 7 days. We are family of three
Regards Tashi la
You can find places for reasonable prices! Difficult to say what exactly you’re looking for, where exactly and if you’ll have a car. We suggest you check via Airbnb or booking.com or the likes to get an idea for what’s available… there are also companies like Pierre & Vacances that rent out apartments for vacation at different price levels. When you get here outside of high season, everything gets more affordable, too, obviously…
What they don't tell you is that these places require that you be in excellent physical health.😮
Oh, didn‘t we?! We usually try to mention that you should wear sneakers and that there are steep alleys… if we didn’t in this video we’re very sorry! Because yes: it’s pretty hilly in the hinterland of the French Riviera, the Alps dive right into the sea.
How can you view the video of Gourdon and Eze and not see the very steep and narrrow stairways and understand the effort involved ? The Eze section even tells you that Nietsche's path is 90 minutes walk up and only 45 down.