Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Information
Tourist Office
( 04 93 36 66 66;
www.grasse.fr
; 22 cours Honoré Cresp; 9am-7pm
Mon-Sat, 9am-1pm & 2-6pm Sun)
Has information on accommodation. There's also an
annexe of the tourist office on place de la Foux.
Getting There & Around
BUS
Bus 600 goes to Cannes (50 minutes, every 20 minutes) via Mouans-Sartoux (25
minutes) and Mougins (30 minutes). Bus 500 goes to Nice (1½ hours, hourly). All buses
leave from the
bus station
(place de la Buanderie)
; fares are €1.
CAR
Grasse's one-way street system is maddening and often congested, so park as soon
as you can and walk. If arriving from Nice, park at Parking Notre Dame des Fleurs. If ar-
riving from Cannes, park at Parking Honoré Cresp. Allow €1.70 per hour.
TRAIN
The station is out of town but linked to the centre by buses 2, 3, 4 and 5 (€1).
There are regular services to Nice (€9.20, 1¼ hours, hourly) via Cannes (€4, 30 minutes).
Mougins & Mouans-Sartoux
Pinprick Vieux Mougins looks almost too perfect to be real. Picasso discovered the medi-
eval village in 1935 with lover Dora Marr and lived here with his final love, Jacqueline
Roque, from 1961 until his death. Mougins (population 19,929) has since become
something of an elite location with prestigious hotel-restaurants, the country's most-
sought-after international school and Sophia Antipolis (France's Silicon Valley) nearby.
Mouans-Sartoux (population 10,490), for its part, is not so picturesque but has a couple
of great sights.
Sights
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
ART MUSEUM
