Musée de l’Annonciade
Some consider this small art museum, in a deconsecrated chapel, one of the best modem collections on the Riviera.
In addition to the usual suspects – Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo and Vlaminck – the museum houses works by Van Dongen, Bonnard, Braque, Roualt, Signac, Seurat, Camoin and others. Place Grammont.

Admission: adults €5.35, children €3.10. Open every day except Tuesdays. Summer, 10 am to 1 pm and 3 to 11 pin; winter, 10 am to noon and 2 to 6 pm.

Porte de la Poissonnerie
Next to the tourist office on Quai Jean Jaurès, this is both a gateway to the old town and a small market hail. Mosaic fish dance around the ceiling while a market, selling the real thing, spreads out everyday on the marble slabs below (closed winter Mondays).

Walk through the Porte de la Poissonnerie to the adjoining Place aux Herbes, a sweet little square where a vegetable, fruit and flower market is a centuries-old tradition.

Rue Gambetta
Once known as Grande Rue, this street is lined with the great 17th- and 18th-century mansions of wealthy merchants and shipbuilders. The towering palm trees they planted still line the route. The 18th-century Misericorde chapel on this street is one of the few land- mark buildings in St. Tropez. Rue Gambetta opens up on the plane tree shaded Place des Lices.

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Comments and Advice from our Guests:

It’s a good question.
I just come back from Greece (Halkidiki).
St Trop is nice, as all the Côte d’Azur, but I am wondering if Mikonos could offer an alternative.
The advantage of St Trop is that you are near by other Cities; Cannes Nice Monaco, so you could move if St Trop become boring …
Don’t think this is possible in Mikonos

Saint-Tropez – so Glamour!

Mikonos is amazing. Both have beautifull beaches and parties all the time.
Depends of you prefer.

True just about glamour and glitz
But as for the beaches i must say St. Trop is overrated
Much nicer places around like St. Maxime or St. Raphael

If my math is correct, it appears both Mykonos and St. Tropez are at a tie. Zouheir, to answer your question, Ibiza is also a very real possiblity. Thanks to each of you for your input. I may just have to do it all this summer .

Both of them! However, for more glamour, you should choose St Tropez!

St Tropez is tops but it also all depends on your pocket! Club 55 is clearly the nicest and most elegant beach….Try getting a table for 10 at 2:30pm for lunch, order your drinks, meals and you’ll have guaranteed fun if not oggling at the slim gals, handsome guys and simply having great fun! City has loads to offer at night, disco at the Byblos tops, if you can get in! Hope you visit there one day!

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Comments and Advice from our Members:

(Saint Tropez) – Well Saint Tropez doesn’t have many clubs eheh…. A common thing, if you feel like walking a bit, is to go to Le VIP Room and then move to Les Caves du Roy… Papagayo became out… Full of very young (and bad) people… ;)

About the Nikki Beach, the problem is that it is too much of a “show-off” place. We like to go to beaches with cool music and nice cocktails, but when the only thing that count is to have a few boxes of champagne bottles to spray it on everyone, it becomes a bit ridiculous…

You will still have the time, if you stay more than a week, to spend one night in Cannes! But I do think despite its size, St Tropez is a very nice place to go out, with a nice international crowd..

Regarding public areas - apart from Le Vip Room and Les Caves du Roy, Maison Blanche and Villa Romana are fun. Joseph Restaurant (the black and the white one) are nice, located directly at the harbour, beaches: we like also 55 best, and also there is voile rouge and Nikki is also good for having fun, yet they are a little bit crowded – nice quiet places for example are Eze, Moulin de Mougins, Eden Roc Antibes and many more.

Finally, a little more tips: beaches: Tahiti, Voile Rouge, 55, Nikki and Plage des Jumeaux (which is a more quite place) and Clubs, of course, Le Caves du Roy and Vip.

Saintrop.com, a pure exctasy of Saint Tropez.

Comments and Advice from our Guest:

1) Will be hard to find “classy” places in St Tropez … St Tropez is perfect if you are looking for party, decadence, indulgence, sex, show-off … You will find more classy ambiance in Monte Carlo, but still a lot of show-off and “nouveau riche” people, at least in the “high season” at the moment …

2) If you manage well you can do both in the same w-e, St-Tropez is 1h15 mns driving from Monaco. Enjoy it anyway.

3) St. Tropez is beautiful, relaxed and informal. Given a choice, I’d go to the Hotel de Paris in Monaco and take the long walk down the corridor leading to the thermal spa across the way.

4) Pick in between…..Cannes – definitely classier.

5) Try to visit Cannes too.

6) St. Tropez is more for partying and is more fun that Monte Carlo. Stay in Cannes, and drive there whenever you want.

7) St Tropez is more fun.

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