Menton is a city where nature and culture coexist in harmony. It is a garden city, famous for its lemons but is also a city of art and history with a rich natural heritage and an extraordinary history.
Everything is calm and beautiful in this preserved natural setting. From the coast road which overlooks the city, you can admire the postcard landscape belonging to a city perched above the sea and basking in the warm sunshine all year round.
Menton, because of its position next to Italy, the principality of Monaco and the County of Nice benefits from a subtropical microclimate which practically ignores the existence of winter. This is a city of Art, blessed by nature, where, whatever the season, one can enjoy the splendours of the sea or the nearby mountains and the year-round sun.
Menton may well be a garden paradise but it is also an incomparable showcase of the different architectural styles which characterise this secret Riviera to create, in the words of the geographer Elysée Reclus, "the Pearl of France".
Menton is also the first city in the Maritime Alps region to have obtained the award “Ville d'Art et d'Histoire” (City of Art and History).