Nice – BMW

Nicoise cuisine has its own strict grammar: anchovies, black olives, no cooked vegetables in the salade, and knowing those rules is the real itinerary in Nice. The culinary geography of the region rewards understanding it at speed, from behind the wheel of something worthy of the landscape, the Moyenne Corniche carving through limestone cliffs and hilltop villages at an elevation that puts the Mediterranean at a permanent, glittering remove. Bellet, the tiny AOC wine appellation tucked into the hills above the city, produces Rolle whites and Braquet reds in quantities so small they rarely leave the region, worth seeking out at estate cellars before descending into the old quarter for socca, chickpea flour, olive oil, wood fire.

BMW's driver-focused edge finds real use on the Moyenne Corniche, a route built for exactly this kind of engagement with the road. Rent or hire a BMW with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the limestone cliffs above the Mediterranean's permanent glittering remove.

Dinner, inevitably, pulls toward the Promenade des Anglais and the domed, Belle Epoque presence of the Hotel Negresco, where the wine list reads like a cartography of southern France.

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