The 7 Best Day Trips from Antibes
Perfume, glass, potters and islands — all within an hour.
Antibes sits at the exact centre of the Riviera's best day-tripping: Grasse's perfume houses one way, artists' villages the other, and car-free islands just offshore.
Every trip here fits comfortably between breakfast and dinner back in Antibes.
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Fragonard Perfume Factory, Grasse
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · Free · allow 3 hours
The essential: free tours, a wall of essences, and your own blended scent to take home.
In Grasse, the world capital of perfume, Fragonard's historic factory runs free guided tours through stills, soap presses and organ-like walls of essences — with a chance to blend your own scent. The essential half-day trip from Antibes.
🕯️ Cosy inside🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly - 2
Grasse Old Town & Perfume Museum
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · € · allow 3 hours
Stay for the ochre lanes and the Perfume Museum — jasmine and lavender country.
Beyond the factories, Grasse's steep ochre old town rewards wandering, and the International Perfume Museum tells the whole fragrant story — from ancient balms to the jasmine and rose fields (and lavender in season) that still bloom around the town.
🕯️ Cosy inside💛 Budget friendly - 3
Biot & the Glassblowers
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · Free · allow 3 hours
Fifteen minutes away: glassblowers, arcades and bubble-flecked glasses to carry home.
Ten minutes inland, medieval Biot is famous for its bubble-flecked 'verre bullé'. Watch glassblowers at work at La Verrerie de Biot, then climb to the village square for lunch under the arcades.
🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly🕯️ Cosy inside - 4
Saint-Paul-de-Vence & Fondation Maeght
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · €€ · allow 4 hours
The perched village of painters, plus Miró in the pines at the Fondation Maeght.
Ramparts, galleries and lanes of golden stone: Saint-Paul-de-Vence is the Riviera's most beloved perched village. Pair it with the Fondation Maeght next door — Miró, Giacometti and Chagall in a pine garden.
🌊 Sea view📞 Book ahead - 5
Vallauris — Picasso & the Potters
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · € · allow 2.5 hrs
Picasso's pottery years, and his 'War and Peace' chapel.
Picasso spent his ceramics years in Vallauris, and his monumental 'War and Peace' chapel mural is still here, alongside working potteries where you can pick up a piece of the tradition.
🕯️ Cosy inside💛 Budget friendly - 6
Îles de Lérins (from Cannes)
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Around Antibes · €€ · allow 5 hours
Monastery wine and eucalyptus paths on islands with no cars at all.
Fifteen minutes off Cannes lie two car-free islands: Sainte-Marguerite with its Man-in-the-Iron-Mask fort and eucalyptus paths, and Saint-Honorat, where monks still make wine. Bring a picnic and swim off the rocks.
🌊 Sea view🧒 Good with kids📞 Book ahead - 7
Sentier du Littoral (Cap d'Antibes coastal path)
🌸 Things To Do & Day Trips · Cap d'Antibes · Free · allow 2.5 hrs
The 'day trip' that never leaves town — the Cap's wild coastal path.
The 'Tirepoil' path rounds the wild tip of the Cap between villa walls and open sea — turquoise coves, pines, and not a road in sight. Two hours of the Riviera exactly as you hoped it would look. Trainers, water, hat.
🌊 Sea view💛 Budget friendly🌅 Sunset spot
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