Cap d’Antibes has drawn the discerning for more than a century, and it has never needed to raise its voice. The peninsula’s glamour is quiet, wooded and almost entirely private — which is exactly the point.
Jutting into the Mediterranean between Cannes and Nice, the cape is a world apart from the bustle of the coast around it: a green, residential peninsula of pine and parasol, where the grandest estates hide behind high walls and the sea is never far. This is a guide to its character, its walks and its waterfront. For the estates themselves, see our Cap d’Antibes villa collection.
The Baie des Milliardaires
The eastern shore of the cape is lined with waterfront estates of extraordinary value — the Baie des Milliardaires, the “billionaires’ bay.” Sheltered and discreet, it holds some of the most valuable private property in Europe. Most of these homes are held quietly, passed between families and rarely advertised; when one becomes available to rent, it is placed by introduction through a private concierge rather than listed online — the heart of the coast’s off-market world.
The coastal path & La Garoupe
The Sentier de Tirepoil follows the wild southern edge of the peninsula — rock, pine and open sea, with the gardens of the Villa Eilenroc at its end. It is among the most beautiful walks on the coast, and entirely free, a reminder that the cape’s greatest luxury is its restraint. On the eastern side, the Plage de la Garoupe — once raked smooth by the Murphys and their Jazz Age friends — and the lighthouse path above it remain part of the cape’s enduring ritual.
Eden-Roc and the old town
The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, with its pavilion and its pool carved into the rock in 1914, remains the peninsula’s grande dame and the backdrop to a century of Riviera legend. Just to the north, Antibes itself is among the coast’s most characterful towns — Port Vauban, the largest marina in Europe and home to the great superyachts; the ramparts and the covered Marché Provençal; and the Picasso museum in the Château Grimaldi, where the artist worked in 1946.
Juan-les-Pins & the jazz
On the cape’s western side, Juan-les-Pins brings a lighter, livelier note — pine-shaded beaches and, each July, the Jazz à Juan festival, one of the oldest in Europe, drawing the great names to an open-air stage under the umbrella pines. It is the cape’s social counterpoint to the silence of the Baie des Milliardaires.
A base for the coast
Cap d’Antibes sits between Cannes and Nice, with Nice airport around twenty to twenty-five minutes away. It pairs naturally with a day on the water; a yacht charter from Port Vauban reaches the Lérins islands in under an hour. For the full coastline, see our Riviera overview, or our guide to when to visit.