Tour of Cap d’Antibes
We love walking with our dog on the coastal path, known as the “Sentier de Tirepoil”, at the southern tip of Cap d’Antibes.
This calm-weather walk is easy to do, with paths and steps in the steep areas. It takes between 1h30 and 2 hours to complete the entire route (approx. 5 km).
From the large parking lot on avenue André Sella, it’s just a 200-metre walk to leave the urbanized areas and find yourself facing the Baie des Anges, Nice and the peaks of the Parc du Mercantour in the background.
The walk is superb, calm and easy, and boasts an incredible diversity of species: sea cineraria, sea lavender (a protected species), Jupiter’s beard (an endemic species), rockroses and pines grace the walk, not to mention the birds, the limestone massif and the sea.
Since the mid-19th century, this little corner of paradise has attractedth century, The Château de la Garoupe, built in 1907, and the Château de la Croë, built in 1927 and for a time the home of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. And let’s not forget Villa Eilenroc, dating from 1860 and bequeathed to the town of Antibes by its last owner, Hélène Beaumont, in 1982.
The walk ends on avenue Mrs LD Beaumont and avenue de la Tour Gandolphe.
The trail is called “Tire-Poil” because it’s often windy.
A superb walk in Cap d'Antibes, only 30 minutes from our gites www.locations-06.fr
The Loi Littoral (French coastal law) has enabled us to reclaim the seaside space that some large mansions had taken for granted, and which today allows us to take this beautiful stroll 30 minutes from our gites www.locations-06.fr.
This part of Cap d’Antibes is part of the Natura 2000 site “Baie et cap d’Antibes – îles de Lérins”, managed by Espace Mer et Littoral and the Conservatoire du Littoral.
This area is protected and must be respected.
