All guides

This hub collects Nice Spirit's longer, more detailed guides, organised by theme and by area rather than by trip length or activity booking, for readers who want to go deeper into a specific subject before or during a visit. Area guides work through each part of the region in more depth than a destinations overview can: Nice itself, with Vieux-Nice, the Cours Saleya and the Promenade des Anglais; the Riviera east towards Italy with Villefranche-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Eze and Monaco; the Riviera west with Cannes, the Iles de Lerins and Antibes; the perched villages of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Vence and Grasse; and the alpine hinterland around the Mercantour, individually.

Theme guides go deeper into single subjects that cut across areas, such as the practicalities of visiting Monaco, what a day trip to the gorges du Verdon actually involves, how Nice's history as part of France since 1860 shapes the city, or how to plan around the region's summer crowds and shoulder-season weather. Because Nice itself has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021, and the Mercantour's Vallee des Merveilles carries protected rock engravings, several of these guides also cover what that status means in practice for access, closures and where you can and can't go.

These are the pages to read when a shorter hub page raises a question you want answered properly, whether that's exactly how the corniche roads behave, what a Mercantour trek actually involves, or how the Vallee des Merveilles, reached on foot and partly restricted to guided access, fits into a longer hiking plan.