Menton is the first city in French Riviera tourists see when travelling from Italy. This is a beautiful small town, located in the South East of France.

The city is a popular travel destination, it is well known for nice beaches and gardens, calm atmosphere, restaurants, local market and museums.

If you are visiting French Riviera, you should also plan a trip to Menton. This is a beautiful travel destination in the South of France for holidays, short weekend break or family vacations.  

Menton is worth visiting at least for 1 day. It is located 20 miles (30km) from Nice and you can easily drive from Nice to Menton. The fastest way to get to Menton is the direct 28 minutes train route, which ensures you are on your travel schedule and do not depend on occasional traffic jams if you would be going to Menton by car.

raveling to Menton by train means you will arrive on time and your travel plans are not interrupted. 

Also, going to Menton by train will allow you to enjoy stunning sea views. 

Menton is the last stop in French Riviera before you enter Italy. 

The city is world known for the lemons festival. Each year Menton city hosts the Fete du Citron celebrations during carnival, organized from middle February till middle of March in French Riviera.

Thousands of people travel to Menton to attend this beautiful event. 

The city is protected with Alps from the North from Europe and it creates the special subtropical climate. Thats why even in winter the weather is warm and pleasant here. 

Menton is a world known resort, and during high seasons it is a bit overcrowded. But if you are lucky enough, you can book a hotel or an apartment nest to the sea, and literally will spend 1 minute to go from the apartment to the local beach. 

The main attraction of the city are beautiful gardens, lemon and orange fields, and also palms and rare tropical plants.

On the East Menton borders with Monaco, between them there is a small city of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. You can take a bus to get to Monaco from Menton and back.

Whole trip will take round half an hour. If you will be traveling by car it will take about 15 minutes.

The population of Mention city is about 30 000 citizens.

The climate in this area is perfect for the citrus plants, this is why tangerines and lemons grow all year round and give harvest several times a year.

A beautiful festival, with lots of music and entertainment events is arranged in Menton every year.

The lemon festival in Menton city French Riviera is a holiday that attracts thousands of tourists and visitors. The festival is organized at the end of February – beginning of March and continues four weeks.

Due to favorable weather conditions the 3 harvests of lemons are collected during a year.

The biggest harvest is usually in March – April. 

Just imagine, they collect about 130 tones of lemons for the festival to be used for decorations.

Castles and huge trees are built out of lemons, oranges and grapefruits for the festival in Menton.

Along the seaside parades of golden fruits are passing when the celebrations take place here. 

During Lemon festival everyone is offered to try new sorts of lemons, drinks and sweets, prepared of local lemons.

From 200 to 230 thousand tourists visit this marvelous show each year.

Tourists can take a mini excursion train to see Menton more closely. It will take you to the historical part of the city.

The excursions are arranged from February till the end of October, and working hours are from 10:00 till 12:00 and 14:00 – 18:00. The whole period of the excursion is half an hour.

Trains depart every 35 minutes, as soon as they have enough tourists on board. Price for tickets is 7 euro for adults and 3 Euros for the kids up to 9 years old.

Another popular event, which tourist can visit in French Riviera is Carnival in Nice.