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villa with marble floors and a laptop and jacuzzi bath in each room is a 20-minute
stroll from the old town.

Eating

LE BROC EN BOUCHE €€
( 04 93 34 75 60; 8 rue des Palmiers, Antibes; mains €15-30; closed Tue dinner
& Wed) You'll melt for Flo and Fred's gourmet bistro, their foie gras, their magret de
canard (duck breast) and whatever daily special they've come up with.

Modern French

Auberge Provençale €€
( 04 93 34 13 24; www.aubergeprovencale.com ; 61 place Nationale, Antibes; menus
€17.50-60; Tue-Sat) The auberge is famed for its fabulous seafood. In winter,
make sure you get a table in the Vieux Couvent; in summer, opt for the courtyard.

Seafood

Getting There & Away
Antibes is an easy day trip by train from Nice (€4, 30 minutes) or Cannes (€2.60, 15
minutes).

St-Paul de Vence
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What distinguishes the medieval hilltop village of St-Paul de Vence from every other
medieval hilltop village around is its phenomenal art legacy. St-Paul attracted many
seminal 20th-century artists, such as Russian painter Marc Chagall, who is now
buried in St-Paul's interdenominational cemetery.

Sights

FONDATION MAEGHT
( www.fondation-maeght.com ; 623 chemin des Gardettes, St-Paul de Vence; adult/
child €14/9; 10am-7pm) Browsing the gallery-lined village streets (64 galleries in
total!) is a fine entrée for art lovers, but the pièce de résistance is this private gal-
lery, about 500m from the old village. Its extraordinary permanent collection of
40,000 works is exhibited on a rotating basis.

Gallery