Journey With Ann is an independent travel guide featuring practical destination articles, local recommendations, and trip-planning information.
Journey With Ann is an independent travel guide featuring practical destination articles, local recommendations, and trip-planning information.
On a map, the attractions look extremely close. In reality, once you add wandering through the Old Town, climbing viewpoints, taking photographs, visiting a market, stopping for lunch, and walking the entire waterfront because it looks beautiful, the steps accumulate very quickly.The walking times below are therefore realistic estimates between attractions, not sightseeing times. A ten-minute walk can easily become twenty minutes when you stop for photographs—which, in Nice, you probably will.
Nice is packed with famous landmarks, beautiful viewpoints, historic streets, museums, markets, and coastal walks, which makes choosing the best things to do in Nice surprisingly difficult. This guide focuses entirely on the city’s top attractions and places to visit, from the essential sights every first-time visitor should see to quieter corners and lesser-known photo locations worth adding to your route. You’ll also find realistic Nice itineraries for 1, 2, 3, and 4 days, with practical walking times and notes on which routes can become more tiring than they appear on a map. And if you want to explore beyond the city, I have included some of the easiest day trips from Nice by train, together with practical advice based on my own experience traveling along the French Riviera.
One of the greatest advantages of staying in Nice is how easy it is to explore the French Riviera without constantly changing hotels.Regional trains run along the coast in both directions, placing Monaco, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Menton, Antibes, and Cannes within easy reach.Two of these trips—Monaco and Cannes—I did personally by train from Nice-Ville, and both convinced me that Nice works exceptionally well as a base for exploring the French Riviera.
