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The Riviera Championships [1] also known as the Championship of the Riviera [2] or the French Riviera Championships [3] or Menton International was an open men's and women's international tennis tournament played at the Menton Lawn Tennis Club, [4] Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on clay courts from 1902 until 1976 and again in 1978.
Map of the French Riviera. These tournaments began with the Beau Site tournament in Cannes in 1890 and were continued by the South of France Championships in Nice from 1895, the Monte Carlo Championships tournament from 1897, the Riviera Championships held at Menton from 1902, the Côte d'Azur Championships held at Cannes LTC, Cannes (f. 1910–1928), and many others.
Some things on the French Riviera will never change (and blessedly so). But now more than ever, there is a palpable frisson of fresh energy swirling in the air. Century-old seafront palaces are ...
The term French Riviera comes by analogy with the term Italian Riviera, which extends east of the French Riviera (from Ventimiglia to La Spezia). [13] As early as the 19th century, the British referred to the region as the Riviera or the French Riviera, usually referring to the eastern part of the coast, between Monaco and the Italian border. [14]
The French Riviera Marathon (French: Marathon Des Alpes-Maritimes) is a marathon held annually along the south east coast of France, between the cities of Nice and Cannes. The event was first held in 2008, when the race achieved its full capacity of 10,000 runners, [ 1 ] setting a new world record attendance for an event on its debut. [ 2 ]
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A U.S. Navy sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La accidentally jettisoned 3,000 US gallons (11,000 L; 2,500 imp gal) of bunker oil, described as "the thickest, heaviest, most molasses-like of all petroleum fuels", into the Mediterranean Sea along the a stretch of tourist beaches at the French Riviera, polluting the sand along a 3-mile ...
Pages in category "French Riviera" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...