All the light on the Côte d'Azur

The 4-star hotel Château Eza is situated on the Côte d'Azur. The hotel's Michelin restaurant serves "the Prince's menu", a four-course lunch menu for a femhundralapp.  Photo: PHILIPPE HAHN

The restaurant Le Figuier de Saint Esprit has an intense charm. Photo: arnaud MONTALAND photo: PHILIPPE HAHN

Jean Cocteau Museum attracts hordes of visitors.  Photo: PHILIPPE HAHN

Find your own place in the Sun of southern France.  Photo: PHILIPPE HAHN

(D) it is about the light. Rays hits the white cliffs which okuvade rises out of the sea, and a billion sparkling reflections mirrors itself in the slow guppande the sea. The Sun is bright, light and magic – and above all unlimited. Côte d'Azur is blessed with over 300 days of sunshine a year.

The legendary Côte d'Azur, the Southern French coastline that we call the French Riviera, is boundless. No one seems to really know where it begins and where it ends. Or rather, nobody seems to really like to take a position on the dividing line. Everyone wants to be part of it. A guess is that French Riviera stretching from Menton to the East and Sainte-Maxime in the West. But who is really so nogräknad, when the rays of the Sun yet is enough and will be over for all?

For many, the Côte d'Azur has become synonymous with holidays. Deluxe kind. The season has its beginning in may, when many international actors visiting the Cannes film festival. Next is glamourcirkusen, and here there is no question of any discrete decadence: giant luxury yachts with its own helipad, mångmiljons cars of grälla colors, uppumpade breasts in previously unknown kupstorlekar and melchizedekflaskor with champagne are commonplace wherever you look.

Best of all is that everyone gets a free ride a bit of luxury. It infects by itself, So it is in all cases when on a pavement, sits next door to Jack Nicholson or Beyoncé and sippar at välkylt a glass of rosé wines.

This guide is an attempt to show on the Côte d'Azur from the inside. Choose Riviera, it is not possible to avoid the masses. But once in place should be chosen with care to get as close to that of the definends sense of light, space and time as possible.

Four-star with Swedish ancestry

ACCOMMODATION

Château Eza

Is there any point in life where we will add the extra money it is at Château Eza, a four-star hotel innästlat between the steep little streets in what many consider to be Côte d ' Azurs most beautiful Moroccan mountain village. From any of the personally decorated rooms, which between the years 1923 and 1976 belonged to the Swedish Prince Wilhelm, looking straight down the steep enclosure overlooking the sea and Eze-sur-Mer.

22, rue de la Pise, Eze

www.chateaueza.com

Intense charm
family restaurant

FOOD AND DRINK

Le Figuier de Saint Esprit

Under a giant fig trees on a överbyggd courtyard in old Antibes, Chef Christian Morisset family warmly received guests at Le Figuier de Saint Esprit. The exquisite adds to the impression, the humble unobtrusive service and Christians welcome summarizes this krogs intense charm. And the food-especially the kitchen's North African interpretation of lammtagine is not for hoes.

14, rue Saint-Esprit, Antibes

www.christianmorisset.fr

Unique offering
from heaven

SHOPPING

Souff'Lemon

The world's most svårtransporterade souvenir is probably Souff'Lemons lemon suffléer from Antibes. And it is something we can rejoice in today's globalized society, where most of the world's everybody is available everywhere. It is therefore this latte Antibes address for a lättflyktig and unique bite of heaven.

6, avenue Niquet, Antibes

+ 33-4-933 404 44

www.soufflemon.fr

990 the Cocteaus main work

WORTH SEEING

Musée Jean Cocteau

Bilbao effect has come to Menton. With the opening of the new Jean Cocteau Museum, visitors have flowed to the amposta before Italienangränsande who in recent years have been known for their blue hairy tanter and their acidic lemons. Like a porous skeleton encloses a concrete structure, the 2,700 square meters glaskuben with 990 of the Cocteaus main works (drawings, paintings, ceramics and movies) can be seen.

2, Quai Monléon, Menton

French Riviera.The French themselves are using exclusively the concept of Côte d'Azur when they speak on the seaboard. Famous coastal cities, Saint Tropez, Sainte Maxime, St Raphaël, Cannes, Antibes, Nice, Villefrance-sur-Mer, St Jean Cap Ferrat and the Principality of Principality of Monaco.