Promenade du Paillon

Brunch all day: pancakes, French toast, rösti and an açaí bowl, with ube and matcha lattes.

Local dishes and Italian cooking on a 30-seat terrace, with coloring kits for kids.

A large local bookstore is a good place to pick up French picture books or something for the flight home.

Tapas and Mediterranean cooking in the old town, with a planted rooftop of 250 square meters up top.

Five floors of fashion, accessories and beauty behind red-ochre Turin-style arcades, with a kids' space on level 2 and a restaurant looking over Place Masséna.

A sea-view apartment with two bedrooms for up to six, in the hotel where Matisse and Chekhov stayed, near the Cours Saleya market.