Michelin Green Guide French Riviera: (Travel Guide)

By Guides Touristiques Michelin

Book Overview

The updated Green Guide French Riviera presents top attractions, the most interesting towns, shopping hot spots, and great places to eat and stay for a variety of budgets. Multiple walking and driving tours reveal the historic charm and scenic landscapes of this region, while opportunities for hiking, scuba diving, sailing and fishing abound. People-watching in cosmopolitan Cannes and Nice are a must. Whether you plan in advance or decide on site, Michelin's celebrated star-rating system ensures you enjoy the best of the French Riviera.

Attractions reviewed and rated, using Michelin's celebrated star-rating system, such as the 1-star Alpine mountaineering destination of St-Martin-V subie and a boat tour of the 3-star islands off Hy res harbor.Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions; includes illustrations and floor plans.Comprehensive, illustrated sections on the region today, and its art, history and culture, all written by experts in their fields.Sidebars touch on various topics ranging from the two-week long Nice Carnival with its floral parades to the world-famous Cannes film festival.Follow one of the many driving tours to discover coastal and Alpine landscapes, or take a walk back in time and explore winding streets of centuries-old villages. Travelers discover more through Michelin's walking and driving tours with comprehensive directions and maps.Detailed visitor information given for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website. Michelin area and city maps.Includes recommendations for great places to eat/stay for all budgets.Michelin Green Guides feature comprehensive, concise travel information for advance trip planning as well as for spontaneous decisions during the visit.

Companion publications:

MICHELIN Guide France for a selection of the best restaurants and hotels in the region.

Michelin Provence-Alps-French Riviera Road and Tourist Map no. 527 (scale 1:200,000) and/or Michelin ZOOM French Riviera, Esterel Map no. 115 (scale 1:100,000) for navigating and planning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2067240560
• ISBN13: 9782067240568
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Essential for the serious tourist

"Serious tourist" may sound like an oxymoron, but it's a good name for those of us who like to as much as possible about the places we travel to for pleasure. Without our Michelin guide, we would have very little sense of the context of the tiny hill towns we visit; with it we not only have that sense, but we have also transmitted more about the history of this region of France to our children than they know about the United States. But it's not just history and art history. Excellent directions to scores of wonderful sites, hiking trails, warnings about towns that have few (or in some cases no) places to eat, surprisingly accurate information about seasonal openings and closings, hours, and admissions, and cross-references to Michelin maps make this little book indispensable. Sites are starred very conservatively--a one-star site is definitely worth a detour--and the times given for looking around are realistic. Even the index is decent. Caution: the type is somewhat small.