Live the French Riviera

In the beginning, there was light: exceptional light that attracted the greatest artists to the Riviera, where they chose to remain. Painters - mediaeval and baroque, 19th-century landscape artists, Impressionists, Fauvists, Expressionists, contemporary artists - all found a land of inspiration here to match their talent.

The French Riviera or Côte d’Azur became a crucible for masterpieces that form today an exceptional artistic heritage. From the coast to the villages of the hinterland, it can be discovered in museums, galleries, palaces, castles, chapels... And the art of the Riviera continues to thrive outdoors along the beaches, in the streets, squares, Mediterranean gardens or in the middle of nowhere.

“La Côte d’Azur des Peintres” invites you to follow in the footsteps of these artists, in town or off the beaten track. The “Itinéraire sur les pas des grands maîtres” (an itinerary in the great masters’ footsteps) will take you to the heart of the natural settings and towns with their charm intact, where famous artists set up their easels. You, too, will be able to admire the exceptional sights immortalized in their works, reproduced on lecterns marking out the itinerary. “La Côte d’Azur des Peintres” then takes you to key venues for contemporary art, museums and foundations dedicated to avant-garde painters, as well as more unexpected places, hotels, restaurants, alternative galleries for a different relationship with art. Beloved of painters, the French Riviera maintains privileged ties with them.