Menton and its museum of Jean Cocteau, flower gardens, luxurious hotels, the famous casino, the bends of the Grand Prix. The Baie des Anges which borders the promenade des Anglais. Old Italian style Nice, with its port and its Genoese-style Lascaris palace, and baroque Nice whose museums, and February carnival you cannot afford to miss. On his return from exile, Napoleon landed here. Calanques de Cassis Antibes, nowadays, is home to the musee Picasso.
Pins are two very fine resorts, famous for their jazz festivals.
Going inland, almost as if guided by its fabulous scent, you will find yourself in Grasse, the capital of perfume. Even further up, Saint Paul de Vence with its superb landscapes which inspired Maeght, Miro, Chagall, Kandinsky, Leger. In Vence, the chapel was decorated by Matisse. All of these artists were seduced by these places of light.