Three days on the Riviera: an Italianate old town, a hill with the best view on the coast, and two neighbouring towns that are easy train rides away.
Nice · 3 days France
Best time: April to June and September to October for warmth without the August crush.
Old Nice and the hillDay 1
🍽️9:30 AM
Cours Saleya market
The flower and produce market in the old town, with a brocante on Mondays instead.
🚶 ~3 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.1 mi
📍12:00 PM
Vieux Nice
The tight grid of ochre lanes below the hill, more Ligurian than French, with socca griddled on the corners.
🚶 ~7 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
📍4:00 PM
Colline du Chateau
The castle hill above the old town, with a waterfall, ruins and the classic view down the Baie des Anges.
Promenade and museumsDay 2
📍9:30 AM
Promenade des Anglais
The seafront walk laid out by English winter residents in the nineteenth century, seven kilometres end to end.
🚶 ~47 min · 🚗 ~6 min · 1.7 mi
📍1:00 PM
Musee Matisse
In a Genoese villa in Cimiez, holding work Matisse kept himself, with Roman ruins in the olive grove outside.
🚶 ~22 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.8 mi
📍4:00 PM
Musee Marc Chagall
Built around the Biblical Message cycle, seventeen large canvases the painter gave to the state.
Along the coastDay 3
📍9:00 AM
Eze village
A medieval village stacked on a rock above the sea, with an exotic garden in the ruined castle at the top.
🚗 ~10 min · 2.9 mi
📍1:00 PM
Monaco
Twenty minutes by train: the palace rock, the harbour and the oceanographic museum built into the cliff.
🚗 ~20 min · 5.7 mi
📍5:30 PM
Villefranche-sur-Mer
A deep natural harbour one stop from Nice, with a coloured seafront and a much calmer beach.
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Day 1: Old Nice and the hill
9:30 AM
Cours Saleya market
The flower and produce market in the old town, with a brocante on Mondays instead.
12:00 PM
Vieux Nice
The tight grid of ochre lanes below the hill, more Ligurian than French, with socca griddled on the corners.
4:00 PM
Colline du Chateau
The castle hill above the old town, with a waterfall, ruins and the classic view down the Baie des Anges.
Day 2: Promenade and museums
9:30 AM
Promenade des Anglais
The seafront walk laid out by English winter residents in the nineteenth century, seven kilometres end to end.
1:00 PM
Musee Matisse
In a Genoese villa in Cimiez, holding work Matisse kept himself, with Roman ruins in the olive grove outside.
4:00 PM
Musee Marc Chagall
Built around the Biblical Message cycle, seventeen large canvases the painter gave to the state.
Day 3: Along the coast
9:00 AM
Eze village
A medieval village stacked on a rock above the sea, with an exotic garden in the ruined castle at the top.
1:00 PM
Monaco
Twenty minutes by train: the palace rock, the harbour and the oceanographic museum built into the cliff.
5:30 PM
Villefranche-sur-Mer
A deep natural harbour one stop from Nice, with a coloured seafront and a much calmer beach.
Make this Nice plan yours
Forward your real booking confirmations to Petrel and it builds this exact day-by-day view for you: flights, hotels, reservations, live flight status, and the travel time between stops. Under a minute.
