Port de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

This guide to the harbor at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, near Nice, traces how a cluster of fishermen's and farmers' cottages on dry rock became one of Europe's most sought-after addresses. It follows Belgian King Leopold II's turn-of-the-century land grab and the water pipes that finally reached the peninsula, and the aristocrats and stars, from Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild to David Niven, who later built homes along this shore. Look out at the boats moored below and picture the fishing families who worked this same stretch of quay a century ago.