Mont Boron

The wooded headland east of the port is Nice at its most discreetly affluent: a residential hill of gated villas and pines, threaded by walking paths that open onto the best panoramas in the city — the whole bay on one side, the Villefranche roadstead on the other. There is almost nothing commercial up here beyond a handful of addresses, and that scarcity is the appeal. Come to walk the loop around the old fort, watch the light change over the sea, and breathe. For food and life you go back down to the port, a steep but short descent.