Secret French Riviera

Secret French Riviera Synopsis

Let Secret French Riviera guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

?Step off the beaten track with this fascinating French Riviera guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in its third edition, Secret French Riviera features 200 secret and unusual locations.

Inside Secret French Riviera:

• Play a game of petanque with square boules
• Vist an astonishing aerial well
• View stained-plastic windows
• Sit on a marble bench built in memory of the Queen of England's haemophiliac son
• Discover the instruments of the Passion of Christ
• Witness a cannon that fires cherry stones
• See an entire village that 'moved house'
• Marvel at a chapel showing the dead rising from their tombs
• Visit a trapdoor in the nave of a church that opens onto a rushing torrent
• Eat in a restaurant in an Orient Express railway car
• Enjoy Babar's beach, Tintin's Black Island, and Sleeping Beauty's chateau
• Admire the Riviera's first pair of naked breasts
• Spend the night sleeping in a tree

The French Riviera is not limited to the clichés of its beaches, private yachts and luxury hotels. Discover more and get off the beaten track with the indispensible Secret French Riviera guide.