Corniche d'Or
Cliffside coast road through red volcanic rock above coves and deep blue Mediterranean water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Corniche d'Or, the Estérel coast road outside Cannes near Théoule-sur-Mer, follows the painter Louis Valtat, who came south in the eighteen-nineties and kept returning to these red cliffs. It touches the Touring Club de France road that opened this coast in nineteen oh three, a visit to Renoir at Cagnes, and Albert Marquet's summer at Agay. Best heard at a pull-off with the rocks and the sea in view.
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