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When Léger Made the World

A 1923 ballet that changed modernism, revisited in the hills above Antibes.

13 June – 12 OctoberBiot
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This week on the Riviera

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

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Exhibition

17 June – 28 September

Beauty, Fashion, and the Art of Living Well

Nice's Musée Matisse brings Henri Matisse and Yves Saint Laurent into rare dialogue.

📍 Musée Matisse, Musée Matisse, 164 avenue des Arènes de Cimiez, 06000

Nice4 min
Exhibition

27 June – 31 October

The Quiet Hours: Bonnard's Marthe, Seen at Last

A summer exhibition at Le Cannet's Musée Bonnard turns a painter's private gaze into public revelation.

📍 16 boulevard Sadi Carnot, 16 boulevard Sadi Carnot, Musée Bonnard, 06110

Le Cannet3 min
Exhibition

28 June – 27 September

Light as Architecture: Michel Verjux at the Château Grimaldi

A summer exhibition at Antibes' Musée Picasso rewrites the castle walls with projected light.

📍 Musée Picasso, Musée Picasso, Place Mariéjol - Château Grimaldi, 06600

Antibes4 min
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Exhibition

29 June – 9 September

The East, as Cannes Once Dreamed It

A restored orientalist collection opens on the hill above the Croisette this summer.

📍 Musée des explorations du monde, Place de la Castre - Le Suquet, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Concert

1 July – 30 September

Jazz on the Walls

One artist's work hangs where the music lives, all festival long.

📍 Hôtel AC Ambassadeur Marriott Antibes Juan Les Pins, Hôtel AC Ambassadeur Marriott Antibes Juan Les Pins, 50/52 chemi

Antibes3 min
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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
Exhibition

4 July – 23 November

A Chapel Made New: Pascale Marthine Tayou Comes to Vallauris

A site-specific commission brings one of contemporary art's most restless voices to Picasso's chapel.

📍 Musée National Picasso "La Guerre et la Paix", Musée National Picasso "La Guerre et la Paix", Place de la Libér

Vallauris4 min
Exhibition

4 July – 30 September

The Summer the Kilns Speak

Vallauris opens its biennial ceramics exhibition — where clay has always meant something more

📍 Salle Arias-Picasso, Salle Arias-Picasso, 35 avenue Georges Clemenceau, 06220

Vallauris4 min
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Exhibition

4 July – 10 January

The Happiness That Has No People In It

Marion Charlet's acid-bright paintings ask what paradise looks like when we leave it alone.

📍 Suquet des Artistes, 7 rue Saint-Dizier, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Exhibition

17 July – 8 November

Worlds Without Borders: Hervé Di Rosa at La Malmaison

A painter who circles the globe returns — this time, to the Croisette.

📍 Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, 47 boulevard de la Crois

Cannes4 min
Exhibition

17 July – 8 November

Forty Years of Joyful Subversion: Hervé Di Rosa Comes to Cannes

A sweeping retrospective on the Croisette — vivid, irreverent, and long overdue.

📍 Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, 47 boulevard de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes

Cannes5 min
Concert

23 July – 4 October

Thirty-Five Years of Sacred Music in the Stones of Antibes

Each July, ancient chapels and a cathedral become concert halls without equal.

📍 Chapelles Saint-Bernardin, Saint-Jean et de la Garoupe - Cathédrale d’Antibes et Kiosque Place Nationale, Chapelles Saint-Bernardin, Saint-Jean et de la Garoupe - Cathédr

Antibes4 min
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Concert

25 July – 7 August

Seventy-Seven Summers of Music Under the Stars

Menton's storied festival returns to its baroque square for another season of classical excellence.

📍 Parvis de la Basilique Saint Michel, Parvis de la Basilique Saint Michel, Place de l'église, 06500

Menton4 min
Concert

3 August

Voice and Keys at Menton's Oldest Summer Stage

Soprano Marie-Laure Garnier and pianist Celia Oneto Bensaid meet beneath the Riviera sky.

📍 Palais de l'Europe - Salon de Grande Bretagne, Palais de l'Europe - Salon de Grande Bretagne, 8 avenue boyer, 0

Menton4 min
Concert

4 August

Violin and Piano at Dusk, with Saint-Michel as Witness

Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace bring chamber music to Menton's baroque square.

📍 Basilique Saint Michel, Basilique Saint Michel, Place de l'église, 06500

Menton4 min
Nature

4 August

The Boulevard That Made Cannes

A guided walk along La Croisette reveals the stories the palm trees have always kept.

📍 Office de tourisme - Palais des festivals et des congrès, Palais des festivals et des congrès, Cannes

Cannes4 min
Concert

5 August

The Grand Duel on the Steps of Saint-Michel

Menton's oldest music festival stages a baroque vocal contest beneath the stars.

📍 Basilique Saint Michel, Basilique Saint Michel, Place de l'église, 06500

Menton4 min
Cinema

5 August

Where Stories Come From: A Cinema Workshop in Cannes for Young Minds

A free afternoon at Espaces Mimont unravels how an idea becomes a film.

📍 Espaces Mimont, 5 rue de Mimont, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Concert

6–8 August

Jazz on the Promontory

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat's garden festival returns for a fourteenth summer above the sea.

📍 Jardin de la Paix, Jardin de la Paix, 1 chemin de Saint-Hospice, 06230

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat4 min
Concert

6 August

Marimba Meets Piano at Menton's Oldest Summer Stage

Two distinct voices, one intimate salon — Menton's festival enters its 77th summer.

📍 Palais de l'Europe - Salon de Grande Bretagne, Palais de l'Europe - Salon de Grande Bretagne, 8 avenue boyer, 0

Menton3 min
Concert

7 August

The Last Note of Summer

Alexandre Kantorow closes Menton's 77th music festival with an evening of rare piano solitude.

📍 Basilique Saint Michel, Basilique Saint Michel, Place de l'église, 06500

Menton5 min
Exhibition

7 August

Around the World in Sixty Minutes, on a Hilltop in Cannes

A guided hour through five continents, inside a medieval castle above the Croisette.

📍 Musée des explorations du monde, Place de la Castre - Le Suquet, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
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Gastronomy

8–9 August

The Tour de France Femmes Comes to Nice — and the Press Centre Tells Its Own Story

For two days in August, the Riviera becomes the nerve centre of women's professional cycling.

📍 OcéaNice Centre de Congrès, OcéaNice Centre de Congrès, Quai Amiral Infernet, Port de Nice,

Nice4 min
Nature

19 September

Born Here, Studied Here: Sciences Po Opens Its Menton Campus to the Public

A 19th-century Italian-inspired building with a surprisingly intimate past unlocks its doors.

📍 Sciences Po, campus de Menton, 11, place saint julien 06500 Menton

Menton3 min
Exhibition

19 September

When Architecture Learns to Breathe on Screen

A guided tour through thirty-two films that reframe how we see built space.

📍 Forum d'Urbanisme et d'Architecture, 89, Route de Turin, 06300 Nice

Nice4 min
Cinema

20 September

France in a Single Room: A Journey Through the Nation's Heritage

One Sunday in September, a château on the Riviera compresses centuries of French civilisation.

📍 Micro-Folie de Villeneuve Loubet, 142 allée André Malraux, 0627, Villeneuve Loubet

Villeneuve-Loubet4 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
Exhibition

18–20 September

The Hotel That Came Back as Art

A derelict art deco building in Grimaud becomes a living canvas for street art.

📍 Le Kilal "Grimaud Art Urbain", 744, Route Nationale. 83310 Grimaud

Grimaud4 min
Exhibition

18–20 September

Inside the Hotel That Never Checked Out

A forgotten art deco hotel in Grimaud has become the Riviera's most unexpected gallery.

📍 Le Kilal "Grimaud Art Urbain", 744, Route Nationale. 83310 Grimaud

Grimaud3 min
Exhibition

18–20 September

What the Castle Kept Secret

Grimaud's heritage museum opens its archives on a medieval fortress few truly know.

📍 Musée du Patrimoine de Grimaud, 744, route Nationale - 83310 Grimaud village

Grimaud3 min
Exhibition

18–20 September

Earth, Sound, and a 15th-Century House in Grimaud

A Punjab-born artist brings Gond tribal art and sound healing to a medieval village

📍 Maison des Arcades, rue des Templiers, 83310 Grimaud

Grimaud4 min
Exhibition

18–20 September

Three Old Buildings, One Village's Memory

A free weekend in Grimaud opens a museum built from a forge, a mill, and a home.

📍 Musée du Patrimoine de Grimaud, 744, route Nationale - 83310 Grimaud village

Grimaud4 min
Nature

18–19 September

The Oil Mill That Time Forgot: Ramatuelle Opens Its Doors

A working olive mill in the Var hills, free to visit for one weekend only.

📍 Moulin à huile du Faubourg, rue du clocher 83350 Ramatuelle

Ramatuelle4 min
Nature

19 September

Open House at the Edge of the Var

One September Saturday, the Camarat lighthouse unlocks its doors — and its panorama.

📍 Phare de Camarat, Phare de Camarat 83350 Ramatuelle

Ramatuelle4 min
Nature

19–20 September

Inside the Rose Fields of Grasse: Lancôme Opens Its Doors for Two Days Only

A sensory guided tour where ancient perfumery craft meets living landscape, Grasse, September 2026.

📍 Domaine de la Rose, 74 Chemin de Saint-Jean, 06130 Grasse

Grasse3 min
Stage

19 September

Behind the Curtain at Le Carré Sainte-Maxime

One Saturday in September, a working theatre opens every door it usually keeps shut.

📍 Le Carré Sainte-Maxime, 107 Route du Plan de la Tour, 83120 Sainte-Maxime, France

Sainte-Maxime4 min
Nature

19–20 September

A Hidden Alpine Fort, Twenty People at a Time

Above Roquebillière, a Maginot-era stronghold opens its gates for two September days.

📍 Fort de Gordolon, 06450 Roquebillière

Roquebillière4 min
Nature

19–20 September

Free to Wander: Fréjus Opens Its Cathedral Cloister for Heritage Weekend

A rare chance to explore one of Provence's oldest ecclesiastical complexes, at no cost.

📍 Cloître de la cathédrale de Fréjus, 58 Rue de FLEURY, 83600 Fréjus, France

Fréjus4 min
Nature

19–20 September

The Windmill That Came Back

A hilltop mill above Saint-Tropez opens its doors — free, unhurried, and entirely itself.

📍 Moulin de Paillas, moulin de paillas, 83350 Ramatuelle

Ramatuelle4 min
Nature

20 September

Walking Into Forgotten Water: Grimaud's Medieval Aqueduct and the Fight to Save It

A free guided hike in Grimaud traces a medieval aqueduct still worth fighting for.

📍 Parking saint-roch Grimaud, 83310 Grimaud

Grimaud4 min
Concert

12 June – 31 October

Where Exile Becomes a Map

A Venezuelan-rooted photo-and-music installation opens this June in Mouans-Sartoux.

📍 Espace de l'Art Concret, Château de Mouans Sartoux 06370

Mouans-Sartoux4 min

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