Beach sights in Côte D’Azur
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Plage du Gray d'Albion
Cannes is blessed with sandy beaches, although much of the stretch along blvd de la Croisette is for guests of top-notch hotels or those prepared to pay for the luxury of having a strip of carpet leading to the water's edge: rates range from around €15/around €19 per half-/full day for a mattress and yellow-and-white parasol on Plage du Gray d'Albion - it has a water-skiing school - to around €30/around €38/around €44 for a back-row/front-row seat/spot on the pier of exclusive Carlton Beach.
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Plage Publique des Ponchettes
If you don't like sand between your toes, Nice's beaches - covered with smooth, round pebbles - are for you. Free public sections of beach with lifeguards, first-aid posts and cold showers alternate with 15 private beaches equipped with restaurants, comfy sun-lounges (obligatory; at a fee) parasols (optional, at a fee), warm showers and changing rooms.
Plage Publique des Ponchettes, opposite Vieux Nice, is the busiest beach with oiled bodies either baking in the sun or punching a ball on the beach-volleyball court.
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Plage de Pampelonne
This beach is the continuation of Plage de Tahiti, studded with some of St-Tropez's most legendary drinking and dining haunts. To get here on foot, head out of town along av de la Résistance (south of place des Lices) to rte de la Belle Isnarde and then rte de Tahiti. Otherwise, the bus to Ramatuelle runs about 1km inland along the D93 - from which seven roads lead to the sand.
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Plages du Midi
The central, sandy beaches along blvd de la Croisette are sectioned off for hotel guests, where sun worshippers pay by the day to stretch out in a lounge chair with a parasol. You'll find one of the best public (aka free) beaches, Plages du Midi, stretching westward from the Vieux Port along blvd Jean Hibert.
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Plage des Salins
Plage des Salins is a long, wide sandy beach, 4.5km east of St Tropez at the foot of Cap des Salins. To get here, follow rte des Salins to its end.
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Plage de la Liberté
Bathers can swim in the buff on aptly named Plage de la Liberté, a nudist beach on Pampelonne's northern end.
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Plage de l'Escalet
Bathers can swim in the buff on the secluded Plage de l'Escalet on the southern side of Cap Camarat.
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Plage de la Moutte
Bathers can swim in the buff on Plage de la Moutte on Cap des Salins.
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Plage de Menton
With more than 300 days of sunshine per year, it's very likely you'll want to spend some time on Menton's free pebble beaches or private sandy ones.
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