Nice · Sports & events

Ligue 1 runs August to May at the Allianz Riviera out at Saint-Isidore, reachable on tram line two. Tickets are easy outside big fixtures.

Formula One takes over the principality's streets in May, with the tennis Masters on clay in April. Both are twenty-five minutes by train.

Nice hosts a full-distance triathlon in summer — a sea swim off the Promenade, a brutal climb into the hills, then a run along the front.

Boules courts sit under the plane trees in the old town and Cimiez; the Prom's cycle lane runs flat for seven kilometres with bikes for hire.