French Riviera Map Pictures

The Côte d'Azur, arresting (kot dazyːʁ), generally accepted in English as the French Riviera (French: Côte d'Azur; Occitan: Còsta d'Azur; that is "Azure Coast"), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast bend of France, additionally including the absolute accompaniment of Monaco. There is no official boundary, but it is usually advised to extend from the Italian bound in the east to Saint Tropez, Hyères or Cassis in the west.

French Riviera Beach Map Pictures

French Riviera City Map Area Pictures

French Riviera Map Pictures

Seafront at Nice, basic of the Alpes-Maritimes département.

The French Riviera bank covers 560 afar and consists of both beach and bank beaches.

This coastline was one of the aboriginal avant-garde resort areas. It began as a winter bloom resort for the British high chic at the end of the 18th century. With the accession of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the amphitheater and vacation atom of British, Russian, and added aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, back he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it additionally played home to abounding associates of the Rothschild family. In the aboriginal bisected of the 20th aeon it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley, as able-bodied as affluent Americans and Europeans. After World War II it became a accepted day-tripper destination and assemblage site. Abounding celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, accept homes in the region. Officially, the Côte d'Azur is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 adopted residents, although estimates of the cardinal of non-French nationals active in the breadth are generally abundant higher.

The alarm of Nice, on the French Riviera

Its better city is Nice, which has a citizenry of 347,060 (2006).