Cagnes-sur-Mer, the town of Renoir and the Promenade des Arts

A true open-air contemporary art gallery, where the Mediterranean landscape dialogues with creativity: this is the waterfront promenade of Cagnes-sur-Mer, a path that starts in Rue Balloux with Marcel Homs' "The Bather Combing Her Hair", a softly shaped nymph sculpted in sandstone, and ends at the mouth of the Cagne River with Monegasque artist Beli'Pokamp's "Beli'Pokamp". The route also includes a space for temporary exhibitions (currently dedicated to the metal silhouettes of Myrian Klein's 'The Crowd') and other installations located near the racecourse entrance, including Setch's 'In the Nets of the Wind', a poetic evocation of Cagnes inspired by a verse by Jacques Prévert. It only takes a few minutes' drive from the Promenade des Arts to reach the city's other major attraction, the Renoir Museum, housed in the villa of Les Collettes (completely renovated in 2013), a magnificent hillside estate planted with olive and citrus trees where the artist lived the last part of his life and from where you can enjoy a panorama stretching as far as Cap d'Antibes. The visit takes place inside the rooms where the family lived and features original sculptures and paintings, as well as period furniture, family objects and archive documents of one of the greatest exponents of the Impressionist movement.