The Côte d’Azur is used to VIP guests, but it is another all together to witness them on stage. Jazz À Juan, from 14th to 24th July, is a unique fixture on the region’s event calendar as year after year, its revolutionary concept continues to attract some of the biggest names - not only in jazz, but in the music industry as a whole - to its al fresco stage on the shores of the Mediterranean. Read more
The hometown of perfume will celebrate, this August, one of the most prominent floral contributors to its success: Grasse honours the jasmine flower at the Fête du Jasmin. 
Right across the region, the sobering effects of the Bastille Day attack have been felt, but nowhere more so than in the devastated city of Nice. Numerous public events and celebrations have been cancelled in the wake of the attack, including the historic Nice Jazz Festival – the world’s first festival of its kind.
As exclusive as it is engaging and as impressive as it is inspiring, this July will see the Grimaldi Forum’s prominent international art fair offer a raw insight into the complex world of fine and antique art with a remodelled vision and a brand new name.
The Côte d’Azur is celebrating France’s National Day - the commemoration of the famous storming of the Bastille prison in Paris during the French Revolution on 14th July 1789 - with a spectacular night of firework extravaganza. But where are the best places to watch the show?
Fresh on the back of the vastly successful mixed language crime drama Narcos comes online TV and film provider Netflix’s first foray into an independent, original, foreign series: Marseille. The complex character of this troubled, but magnificent port city provides the background for a provocative eight-episode series by directors Dan Franck and Florent Emilio-Siri that falls somewhere between intense political thriller and vengeful drama.
Since 1948, Nice has offered a stage to some of the world’s greatest jazz acts and musicians. It is almost 70 years since jazz titans such as Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt helped launch what has become an institution for the jazz genre, but the mission and message of the festival remains much the same: to celebrate jazz music of ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’, and to instil a love for the art in the heart’s of a new generation.
Ticket sales to the highly anticipated 
Quirky Barbadian singer and songwriter Rihanna will be performing in Nice as part of her Anti World Tour in a little over a week’s time and there is a very limited number of tickets still available, starting at 62.90 euros.
In 1946 when he was resident in Monaco, Francis Bacon wrote to his friend Graham Sutherland to say that he was ‘working on sketches’ of Diego Valazquez’s 1650 portrait of Pope Innocent X. Three years later, Head VI 1949, the first of his series of ‘Screaming Popes’ to appear before the public emerged. It was a theme he would rework over the next 20 years producing some of the most powerful expressions of post-war horror, a form of existential agony at what man is capable of inflicting on his fellow human beings.