Èze

Èze is one of the original perched villages of the Côte d'Azur — a fortified medieval cluster on a cliff edge above the sea, eight kilometers east of Nice. The Friedrich Nietzsche Path runs from the village down to the coast at Èze-Bord-de-Mer; it was on this walk that he conceived part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Exotic Garden at the top of the village, built among the ruins of the old castle, drops the visitor onto a cactus-and-succulent terrace with a view down to the sea. The whole village is car-free — you walk in from a parking lot at the base. Get there for sunset, stay for dinner.