Mentone.—A beautifully situated Riviera resort, with grand mountain scenery and a safe climate.
La Mortola.—The villa and gardens of the late Sir Thomas Hanbury.
Ventimiglia.—An Italian town near the frontier; Romanesque cathedral, with early baptistery; Church of St. Michele; old tunnelled passages and medieval walls.
Dolceacqua.—Strikingly picturesque rock village, with ruins of an imposing castle.
Apricale.—Another rock village, in a wonderfully fine mountainous situation.
Bordighera.—A modern resort, with beautiful surroundings and an old village on Capo San Ampeglio.
Ospedaletti.—A small and newly built resort.
San Remo.—A large and fashionable town, with fine scenery and a golf-course; old town, full of quaint passages and stairways.
Cannes has a sea-front broken by the isolated mass of rock called Mont Chevalier. Here was founded the early settlement which was, no doubt, the Aegytna mentioned by Polybius as the scene of a treacherous attack by some of the Ligurian tribesmen on some unarmed Romans. The hill is now picturesquely crowned with the thirteenth-century parish church, a medieval tower, and the ruins of the castle of the Counts of Provence. Down below is a small harbour.
The views westwards from the palm-shaded promenades along the shore include the rugged masses of the always attractive Estérels.