Destination: French Riviera
Be Entertained Fishing Golf Hang-gliding, Paragliding & Ultra-light Horse Riding Sailing Scuba Diving Tennis Trekking & Rock Climbing Yacht Charter Antibes - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots Cannes - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots Juan-les-Pins - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots Monaco - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots Nice - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots St-Tropez - Casinos, Cinemas & Night Spots Menton - Theatre, Opera, Classical Music Monaco - Theatre, Opera, Classical Music Nice - Theatre, Opera, Classical Music Ticket Sales	Spectator Sports The region's number one spectator sport is le foot (football) with locals passionately supporting their teams. The Monte-Carlo Car Rally, the Monaco Grand Prix and the Monte-Carlo and Nice Open Tennis Championships are also huge crowd-pullers, along with regular horse-racing at Cagnes. Every summer, crowds flock to Nice for its international triathlon (cycling, running, swimming) - the so-called 'Madman's Promenade'. Fewer people attend the Christmas day skinny-dip, the great Bain de Noël. Boules Boules, Southern France's most popular game, is sometimes called pétanque, from Occitan pé (foot) and tanco (fixed to the ground). The game was born one day in 1901 when arthritic boules player, Jules le Noir, suggested to his friends that they all play pieds tanqués. This seemed a good idea and also meant they could return to the village square where they had been previously banned for hitting too many passers' by as they ran and tossed their balls. Pétanque is a tactical game - whether to position your ball near the little wooden ball (called a cochonnet or piglet) or to oust out your opponent's ball. With a flick of the wrist, to players sometimes manage both simultaneously. Café de Paris This beautifully renovated art-deco triumph contains a restaurant as well as a gaming house, which in its heyday attracted the world's most elite society. Ladies' man Edward VII was a frequent visitor, and the delicious flambéed dessert crêpe suzette was created here, named after one of his companions. Nice's Acropolis Love it or hate it, one thing is for sure - you can't ignore this monstrous mass of smoked glass and concrete slabs at the very hub of modern Nice. With its four high-tech auditoria, concert hall, bowling alley, exhibition halls, cinémathèque and extensive conference facilities, it has several times been voted 'Europe's best congress centre'.	COUNTRY France REGION French Riviera   Viewing   Top Ten   What To See   Where To ...     Eat & Drink     Stay     Shop     Take The Kids     Be Entertained     What's On When   Practical Matters CITIES Paris Lyon Nice Strasbourg MAPS World Europe TRAVEL BOOK