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Monaco, June 2026: The Race That Rewrites the City

For three days in June, Monte-Carlo becomes the most theatrical circuit on earth.

5–7 JuneMonaco
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This week on the Riviera

Exhibitions, concerts, gastronomy and culture — from Saint-Tropez to Monaco.

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Nature

5–7 June

Australia in Stone and Bloom: A Guided Discovery at Parc Gonzalez

Where a painter's summer residence became Bormes-les-Mimosas' most quietly remarkable garden.

📍 Parc Gonzalez, Boulevard du Soleil, 83230 Bormes-les-Mimosas, France

Bormes-les-Mimosas4 min
Exhibition

5–6 June

Inside the Hive: A Honey Farm and Bee Museum Opens Its Doors in Bormes-les-Mimosas

A working Provençal miellerie invites visitors behind the scenes of honey production this June.

📍 La Butinerie, 1509 chemin de l'Angueiroun

Bormes-les-Mimosas4 min
Nature

5–7 June

Among the Olives Above Grasse: A Guided Walk Through Domaine de la Mouissone

A three-hectare hillside estate opens its terraced gardens for three days in June.

📍 Le domaine de la Mouissone, 79 chemin saint Christophe 06130 Grasse

Grasse3 min
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Exhibition

5–7 June

Totems in the Garden of Scent

Student-made zoomorphic sculptures meet Mouans-Sartoux's living perfume conservatory.

📍 Jardins du musée international de la parfumerie, 979 Chemin des Gourettes, 06370 Mouans-Sartoux, France

Mouans-Sartoux4 min
Nature

5 June

Reading a Garden by Touch: Hyères Opens Its Historic Park to New Senses

A guided sensory visit to Parc Olbius Riquier offers rare access for blind and partially sighted guests.

📍 Parc Olbius Riquier, 37 Avenue Ambroise Thomas, 83400 Hyères, France

Hyères4 min
Nature

5 June

Where the Mediterranean Meets the Tropics: A Morning at Val Rahmeh

Menton's botanical garden holds France's rarest subtropical microclimate — and 1,800 reasons to visit.

📍 Jardin botanique du val rahmed, 06 500 Avenue saint Jacques Menton

Menton4 min
Exhibition

5–7 June

Inside Fragonard: Grasse's Living Archive of Scent

Three days inside one of the oldest perfume factories on the Côte d'Azur

📍 Parfumerie Fragonard, 20 boulevard Fragonard 06130 Grasse

Grasse4 min
Exhibition

5 June

Drawing the Garden: A Morning of Observational Sketching at Musée Bonnard

At Le Cannet's hilltop museum, pencil, colour, and camera meet the Mediterranean garden.

📍 Musée Bonnard, 16 Boulevard Sadi Carnot, 06110 Le Cannet, France

Le Cannet4 min
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Nature

5 June

Through the Senses: A Plant Walk at Nice's Parc Phoenix

A guided sensory journey through seven hectares of botanical wonder on the Promenade des Anglais.

📍 Parc Phoenix, 405 promenade des Anglais, 06000 Nice, France

Nice4 min
Nature

5–7 June

The Art of the Nose: Inside Galimard's Perfume House in Grasse

Three days in the world's perfume capital, guided by one of its oldest maisons.

📍 Maison de parfums Galimard, 73 route de Cannes 06130 Grasse

Grasse4 min
Nature

5–7 June

Into the Southern Hemisphere: A Guided Walk Through Bormes-les-Mimosas' Parc Gonzalez

Five hundred species of Australian flora, terraced above the Mediterranean, open to twenty visitors at a time.

📍 Parc Gonzalez, Boulevard du Soleil, 83230 Bormes-les-Mimosas, France

Bormes-les-Mimosas4 min
Exhibition

5–6 June

Jean-Paul Agosti: Jardin Miroir at 46 St Paul Gallery

A retrospective in Saint-Paul-de-Vence traces fifty years of painting nature's hidden order.

📍 46 St Paul Gallery, 46 rue grande 06570 Saint-Paul de Vence

Saint-Paul-de-Vence4 min
Nature

5 June

A Free Morning Among Rare Plants: Val Rahmeh Opens Its Gates to Schoolchildren

Menton's subtropical botanical garden welcomes school groups, no reservation required.

📍 Jardin botanique Val Rahmeh-Menton, avenue Saint Jacques, 06500 Menton

Menton4 min
Concert

5 June

A Guided Visit and Concert at Villa E-1027, Where Modernism Meets the Mediterranean

An afternoon of architecture, hidden gardens, and live music on the Cap Martin shore.

📍 Cap Moderne, site Eileen Gray - Le Corbusier au Cap Martin, avenue Le Corbusier 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin4 min
Nature

5 June

A Garden Made by Many Hands: Mouans-Sartoux Opens Its Participatory Plot

Where perfumers' plants meet community gardening, on a June afternoon in Provence.

📍 Jardins du musée international de la parfumerie, 979 Chemin des Gourettes, 06370 Mouans-Sartoux, France

Mouans-Sartoux4 min
Nature

5 June

Sacred Walls, Living Voices: Inside Hyères' Chapel of Sainte-Marie-des-Anges

A 1930s convent opens its doors for a guided visit and theatrical performance in Hyères.

📍 Sainte Marie des Anges, 5 rue Victor Hugo hyères

Hyères4 min
Nature

5 June

A Theatrical Walk Through the Garden of Sainte-Marie-des-Anges

Where a 1930s convent garden becomes a stage, guided by those who live there.

📍 Jardin du Couvent Sainte-Marie des Anges, 5 Rue Victor Hugo, 83400 HYERES

Hyères4 min
Concert

5–6 June

Jazz à Valrose: Nice's Garden Festival Finds Its New Form

A beloved park concert series reinvents itself as a full festival across two June evenings.

📍 Château et parc de Valrose, 28 avenue Valrose, 06100 Nice, France

Nice4 min
Gastronomy

6 June

Morning Milk and Mountain Herbs: A Day at Valbonne's Goat Farm

Where the hills above Sophia Antipolis still smell of wild thyme and fresh curd.

📍 La chèvrerie de Valbonne, 1382 route de Biot 06560 Valbonne

Valbonne4 min
Nature

6–7 June

Two Hours Among 250 Palms: A Private Garden Opens Its Gates in Fréjus

A rare guided visit to one of the Riviera's most quietly extraordinary botanical gardens.

📍 Villa Caryota, 192 avenue Aristide Briand 83600 Frejus

Fréjus4 min
Nature

6–7 June

What the Head Gardener Knows

A rare guided walk through Mouans-Sartoux's perfume gardens, led by the person who tends them

📍 Jardins du musée international de la parfumerie, 979 Chemin des Gourettes, 06370 Mouans-Sartoux, France

Mouans-Sartoux4 min
Exhibition

6 June

Walking the Paillon: Nice's Hidden River Reclaimed

A dual-voiced tour traces the buried river that shaped a city's memory.

📍 Nice, 10 Bd Jean Jaurès, 06300 Nice

Nice4 min
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Exhibition

6–7 June

Garden, Gaze, and the Art of Noticing: A Photography Weekend at La Pomme d'Ambre

A Fréjus conservatory garden invites visitors to photograph what genuinely stops them.

📍 jardin conservatoire la pomme d'ambre, 83600 Fréjus

Fréjus4 min
Nature

6–7 June

A Garden Kept in Good Order: Inside Cagnes-sur-Mer's Propriété Marro

A private estate in the Alpes-Maritimes opens its gates for two days in June.

📍 Propriété Marro, 03 avenue Germaine 06800 Cagnes sur Mer

Cagnes-sur-Mer4 min
Nature

6–7 June

The Garden That Bites Back: A Private Botanical World in La Gaude

Two illustrators open their 700-species hillside garden for intimate guided visits this June.

📍 Visite du jardin privé Sauvages et belles à croquer, 21 allée la treille 06610 La Gaude

La Gaude4 min
Nature

6 June

Light, Olives, and Open Easels: A Botanical Morning at the Musée Renoir

At Cagnes-sur-Mer's Domaine des Collettes, a Saturday walk reunites painting and place.

📍 Musée Renoir, 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

Cagnes-sur-Mer4 min
Event

6 June

Blueprint from the Garden: Cyanotype Animation at Fréjus's Villa-Marie

A herbalist, sunlight, and pressed botanicals walk into a mediatheque on the Var coast.

📍 Médiathèque Villa-Marie, 447 Avenue Aristide BRIAND, 83600 Fréjus, France

Fréjus4 min
Stage

6 June

Stories in the Garden: A Morning of Listening in Hyères

At a historic lavoir in the old town, children and parents gather to hear the garden speak.

📍 Lavoir, Rue du repos 83400 Hyères

Hyères3 min
Nature

6 June

Colour Theory at the Edge of the Sky: A Guided Visit to Eze's Exotic Garden

High above the Riviera, succulents reveal their secret palette on a summer morning.

📍 Jardin exotique d'Eze, 06360 Eze

Èze4 min
Exhibition

6–7 June

The Garden as Living Work: An Afternoon at Villa Carmignac

On Porquerolles, art and landscape meet in a guided walk unlike any other

📍 Villa Carmignac - Fondation Carmignac, Chemin de la Courtade, 83400 Hyères, France

Hyères3 min
Exhibition

6 June

Paint in Progress: A Live Art Afternoon at Nice's Château Sainte-Hélène

Two painters, one garden, and a canvas still finding its ending.

📍 Musée international d'art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, 23 avenue de Fabron 06000 Nice

Nice3 min
Exhibition

6 June

Séraphine and the Garden: A Guided Afternoon at Nice's Château Sainte-Hélène

Two artists, one obsession with flowers — and a museum garden that earns its own attention.

📍 Musée international d'art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, 23 avenue de Fabron 06000 Nice

Nice4 min
Nature

6 June

Colours, Senses and Olive Trees: A Family Morning in Renoir's Garden

At the Domaine des Collettes, a guided visit invites families to see as Renoir saw

📍 Musée Renoir, 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

Cagnes-sur-Mer4 min
Festival

6 June

Between the Orange Blossom and the Earth: A Farmer's Journal Comes to the Gardens of Mouans-Sartoux

A prize-winning book becomes theatre, performed where perfume was born.

📍 les jardins du Musée international de la parfumerie, 979 Chemin des Gourettes, 06370 Mouans-Sartoux

Mouans-Sartoux4 min
Exhibition

7 June

A Morning Lens in Edith Wharton's Garden

A guided photography workshop unfolds inside one of the Riviera's most storied private gardens.

📍 Parc Sainte-Claire, 7 Avenue Édith Wharton, 83400 Hyères, France

Hyères4 min
Exhibition

14 June

Before the First Cities: Monaco Opens Its Prehistoric Archive for One Sunday

A free day of science, craft and deep time at the principality's oldest research museum.

📍 Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique de, 56 bis, Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, MC 98 000 MONACO

Monaco4 min
Monaco · Premier

2–4 July

Twenty Years Above the Waterline: Jumping International de Monte-Carlo Returns to Port Hercule

A landmark anniversary edition brings elite show jumping to Monaco's deep-water harbour in July 2026.

📍 Port Hercule, Quai Louis II, Port Hercule, Monaco

Monaco4 min
Monaco · Premier

3 July – 15 August

Under the Mediterranean Sky: Monte-Carlo Summer Festival 2026

Six weeks of live music at the Riviera's most theatrical open-air venue.

📍 Salle des Étoiles · Sporting Monte-Carlo, 26 avenue Princesse Grace, Monaco

Monaco5 min
Monaco · Premier

23–26 September

The World Afloat: Monaco Yacht Show Returns to Port Hercule

Four days in September when the principality's harbour becomes the world's largest floating showroom.

📍 Port Hercule, Quai Louis II, Port Hercule, Monaco

Monaco4 min

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