The list
A rainy day
Museums, chapels and palaces to wait out a Riviera downpour.
Nice
- MuseumMusée MatisseMatisse from first to last, in a seventeenth-century Genoese villa on Cimiez
- MuseumMusée Marc ChagallChagall's Biblical Message, in the museum he helped to plan
- MuseumMusée des Beaux ArtsThe city's fine-art museum, in a Genoese-Renaissance villa begun for a Russian princess
- MuseumMusée MassénaA Belle Époque villa on the Promenade, and Nice's museum of its own history
- MuseumPalais LascarisA Genoese-baroque palace in the old town, now a museum of early musical instruments
- TheatreOpéra de NiceThe opera house of 1885, between the Quai des États-Unis and Rue Saint-François-de-Paule
- ZooPhoenix ParkA seven-hectare botanical and zoological park by the Promenade, opened in 1990
- MuseumMusée des Arts AsiatiquesAsian art in a building by Kenzo Tange, on the lake of Parc Phœnix
- MuseumMuseum d'Histoire NaturelleThe «Musée Barla»: Nice's oldest municipal museum, founded in 1846
Cannes
- Arts centreLa MalmaisonAn 1863 villa on the Croisette, now the city's contemporary-art centre
- MuseumMusée des explorations du mondeThe world's art and objects in the monks' castle at the top of the Suquet
- MuseumMusée du Masque de fer et du Fort RoyalThe island fort of the Man in the Iron Mask, now a museum
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Saint-Tropez
Mougins
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Menton
- Place of worshipBasilique Saint-Michel-ArchangeMenton's baroque basilica above its stepped square, begun in 1619
- MuseumMusée Jean Cocteau - Le BastionThe seventeenth-century harbour fort that Cocteau turned into his own museum
- MuseumPalais CarnolèsThe Grimaldi princes' summer trianon of 1717–1725, now the fine-arts museum
Le Cannet
Valbonne
Vallauris
Saint-Raphaël
- Place of worshipBasilique Notre-Dame de la VictoireA neo-Byzantine basilica of 1883–1887 by the Old Port, named after Lepanto
- Place of worshipÉglise des TempliersThe Romanesque church of the old village, rebuilt c. 1180–1200 over three earlier ones
- MuseumMusée archéologique de Saint-RaphaëlPrehistory, Roman shipwrecks and amphorae beside the medieval church
- MuseumMusée Louis de FunèsA museum for Louis de Funès, who filmed Le Corniaud's campsite scenes here
Sainte-Maxime
Sources
- The places' own pages (their sources)