There are four major capes on the eastern end of the Côte d’Azur: Cap d’Antibes, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Cap d’Ail, and Cap Martin. All four of these capes feature excellent hiking and walking trails that are fairly easy for most people and quite popular with locals and tourists. They are all quite similar in some ways and a bit unique in others. It’s an easy drive from Vence to any of them and I like to hike them all on a regular basis.
Cap Martin lies about halfway between Menton and Monte-Carlo and just like the other three it features rugged rocks, gorgeous views, and magnificent landscapes. The hike begins at the Carnolès train station just west of Menton. It ends at the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin train station which is just east of Monte-Carlo. This provides many options on how you’d like to finish the hike once you’ve finished.
Cap Martin is probably the most epic and spectacular cape on the French Riviera. Cap Martin is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, close to the Italian border.
French Mediterranean coastal area known as Côte d'Azur or French Riviera is one of the most popular travel destinations in Europe with towns like Menton, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Saint-Tropez, and Antibes.
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About Cap Martin
In the 1st century the Via Julia Augusta, one of the most important roads of the Roman Empire, stretched from Italy to Marseilles. The road passed through Cap Martin on the way from Ventimiglia to La Turbie. The perched village of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, situated high on the hills overlooking the cape, dates back to 970. The cape became French in 1793, then moved to independent status under the protection of the King of Sardinia, and then once again became French in 1861.
In the late 1800s, during the French Belle Époque, luxurious villas with names like Villa Cyrnos (occupied by the wife of Napoleon III), Villa Cypris, Villa Zamir, and Villa Torre Clementina began to spring up all over the cape. The Grande Hôtel du Cap-Martin was built in 1890 and accommodated guests such as Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth of Austria until it was sold as apartments after World War II. Over the years this cape has been associated with many illegal “imports.” The trail we walk along today was used in the past by customs officers as they patrolled the area in search of pirates, robbers, and illicit importers. Today the cape is part of the municipality of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and enjoys a thriving economy based on agriculture, tourism, and retail shops.
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