No French region fires the imagination like the Côte d’Azur, with its unique blend of natural beauty, hilltop medieval villages and sophisticated resorts. It became a retreat for 19th century European aristocracy and royalty and attracted many leading composers and artists of the era. Renoir lived in Cagnes; Cocteau in Menton; Chagall and Matisse in Nice; Picasso moved to Antibes. Today, only Paris has more museums than the Côte d’Azur. https://www.rivieratravel.co.uk/nice-monaco-the-cote-d-azur