The Grande Corniche and Èze: The High Road Above the Riviera

Required Activities

• Drive the Grande Corniche, the RD2564, out of Nice and over its two cols — the col des Quatre-Chemins and then the col d'Èze — as far as La Turbie, keeping the Moyenne and Basse Corniches below you the whole way

• Climb the stepped lanes of Èze-Village to 429m and into the Jardin Exotique laid out inside the shell of the ruined castle, then look over its wall at the village cemetery directly below — the garden stands on top of both

• Walk the Chemin de Nietzsche down the steep side of the rock from the village to Èze-sur-Mer, the full 429m of it, on the path that bears his name and that he is said to have climbed while he was writing

• Walk out to the fort de la Revère on the Grande Corniche above Èze, inside the departmental park, and from the ramparts pick out Cap Ferrat below you to the west and the blockhouses of the old Nice defences along the ridge

• At La Turbie, go round to the west face of the Trophy of Augustus, 35m of it still standing at the highest point of the via Julia Augusta, and read the Senate's dedication with the names of the forty-four Alpine peoples listed under it, then walk the 500m to the Roman quarry and find the column sections still half-cut in the rock