Alpes-Maritimes

Travel tips for Alpes-Maritimes (4)

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  Nice: Promenade des Anglais and Old Town

  Nice's famous seafront promenade curves for 7 km along the Baie des Anges, lined with palm trees and grand hotels such as the Negresco.

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  Èze village

  A medieval village perched on a rocky peak 427 m above the Mediterranean, between Nice and Monaco.

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  Trophy of Augustus, La Turbie

  A huge Roman monument raised in 6 BC on a pass above Monaco to celebrate Emperor Augustus's conquest of the Alpine tribes, whose 45 names a…

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  Monastère de Saorge

  A 17th-century Franciscan monastery above the dramatic hill village of Saorge, whose tall houses cling to the cliffs of the Roya valley.