Nice and the Baie des Anges

Rolling out of Èze Village, the bends loosen and the shoreline appears all at once: the Promenade des Anglais in a silver line, Terminal 1 gleaming, then Mont Boron rising to 191 m. Fifteen minutes along the Moyenne Corniche (D6007) and you step onto the Cours Saleya at 9 am, just as growers from the Var plain lay out heirloom tomatoes and armfuls of flowers. Nice explains itself through its terrain: the Castle Hill—leveled in 1706 under Louis XIV—splits the Old Town from the American Quays and Port Lympia, where the Corsica ferry still docks.

From there, we slip up to Cimiez while your private driver in Nice handles the roads and timing. Pick‑up at your Èze hotel, a cooled Mercedes at disposal, flexible stops. Trace the Roman footprint in the Arènes gardens, cross from the Matisse Museum (Villa des Arènes, Fauvist periods) to the National Marc Chagall Museum in eight minutes, then an easy lunch on the Prom—socca at Lou Pastrouil or a proper salade niçoise with the bay in view. We return on the lower corniche via Villefranche‑sur‑Mer, twenty unhurried minutes of water and pastel façades.