A house built in 1902–1908 to feel like a Greek home on Delos: marble, mosaics, a library like a monk's cell, and the perfect opposite of the Villa Ephrussi up the hill.

A house built between two bays by a Rothschild who wanted to live on a ship, with nine gardens, a loggia buried in bougainvillea and the best terrace view on the Riviera.

Ten minutes inland from the Cagnes-sur-Mer coast, the old village of Villeneuve-Loubet hides a 13th-century castle, Escoffier's birth house, and some of the quietest medieval streets on the French Riviera.

My three-day Naples route, from the Veiled Christ and Castel Sant'Elmo to the pizzerias and metro stations worth crossing town for.