Around Grasse
Hilltop villages, a cave, a lake and the square where Napoleon rested, within half an hour of Grasse: Cabris, Peymeinade, Spéracèdes, Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey, Gourdon, Le Bar-sur-Loup, Mouans-Sartoux and the Lac de Saint-Cassien.
11 places
Cabris
A village on a rock where Saint-Exupéry’s mother lived and great writers stayed
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Sardaigne
A Romanesque chapel with a Roman sarcophagus at the door
Château de Mouans-Sartoux
A triangular castle that houses a collection of abstract art
Gourdon
An “eagle’s nest” on a cliff with a view of the whole coast
Grottes de Saint-Cézaire
A cave with pink columns that a farmer found in his own field
Lac de Saint-Cassien
A man-made lake that supplies Cannes with water and hides a Roman aqueduct
Le Bar-sur-Loup
Admiral de Grasse’s village and the “Dance of Death” in the church
Napoleon Column
The square where Napoleon rested on his way from Elba to Paris
Old Peymeinade
A flower-growing village that split from Cabris in 1868
Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne
A village above the Siagne gorge where the conductor Igor Markevitch is buried
Spéracèdes
A hamlet of olive mills that won its own commune in 1910