A paradise for the long stays of winter
The winter climate is generally soft there and favourable with an active timetable, so much the luminosity is strong. And as this beautiful area abounds in attractions and curiosities, activities to be practised and places to visit, the long stays are completely suitable there.
The area of the Riviera developed its notoriety besides thanks to the long stays of winter which started to carry out there the British middle-class and, then, all the European elite, as from the medium of the XIXE century.

De luxe hotels and middle-class residences, nested in parks where palm trees and bougainvilleas alternate with the fatty plants and the umbrella pines, still testify to this time.

Rich and famous people preserve their practices on the Riviera which counts undoubtedly the greatest concentration of authentic de luxe hotels of all the country. However, the frequentation was reversed. Now, the winter constitutes dead season.

Area of charm
It should be also said that the Coast was democratized. The hotel residences and the very ordinary hotels of chains multiplied. The second homes and the villas invaded the sea front just as the back-country, encroaching on the fields of olive-trees and citrus fruits and also the cultures of flowers.

Although the which gallops urbanization has affected many traditional agricultural productions with the profit of tourism, the area still preserves its charm. In any place, the proximity at the same time of the sea and back-country mountainous indeed emphasize the natural decoration.

Between the various seaside resorts, each one presenting a clean character, and the many localities of the close interior, there is what to offer quantity of stroll and of discoveries.

Mougins, Opio and Grasse, in the back-country of Cannes, Saint-Paul and Bellet, in the back-country of Nice, Vallauris, the commune where the station of Gulf-Juan is, offer what to furnish many happy days.

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Freedom, flexibility
There is no need to have a car for a long stay on the Riviera, especially that, during the weekends, cloggings are frequent with the accesses of the cities. A service of train, whose line skirts the littoral, serves at good frequency all the localities.

Coast towards the interior, a service of public bus is also offered on a regular basis by TAM (Alpes-Maritimes Transport).

The tourist trains of the Railroads of Provence in addition propose a way of Nice towards Worthy-the-Baths, while the Train of the Wonders carries out of Nice in Tende, that is to say littoral up to 1 000 meters of altitude.

The Chart Museums Riviera makes it possible to visit 65 museums, monuments and gardens of the Alpes-Maritimes, either during 3 days consecutive, or during 7 days distributed over 15 days.

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