Antibes

An ancient Ligurian port on the Riviera, enclosed by Vauban's seventeenth-century ramparts overlooking the sea and the Esterel massif in the distance. The old town market sells local produce under medieval arcades, while the Musée Picasso occupies the Château Grimaldi, where the artist worked intensively in 1946. The Cap d'Antibes peninsula shelters coves accessible on foot from the coastal path.