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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="منتون – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="منتون" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentona" title="Mentona – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Mentona" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="مانتون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مانتون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Ментона – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ментона" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Ментона – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ментона" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Мэнтона – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мэнтона" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Мантон – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мантон" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Ментона – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ментона" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dagbanli</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD_(%CE%91%CE%BB%CF%80-%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BC)" title="Μαντόν (Αλπ-Μαριτίμ) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μαντόν (Αλπ-Μαριτίμ)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1)" title="منتون (شهر) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="منتون (شهر)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton_(Alpes-Maritimes)" title="Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Menton (Alpes-Maritimes)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%9D%ED%86%B5" title="망통 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="망통" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A9%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Մենթոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մենթոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%C3%A6" title="Ментонæ – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Ментонæ" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentone" title="Mentone – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mentone" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentonum" title="Mentonum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mentonum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantona" title="Mantona – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mantona" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentonas" title="Mentonas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Mentonas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentun" title="Mentun – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Mentun" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Hungarian" lang="hu" 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data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentona" title="Mentona – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mentona" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Menton, Alpes-Maritimes – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Menton, Alpes-Maritimes" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Ментона – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ментона" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menton" title="Menton – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Menton" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0)" title="Ментон (Француска) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Ментон (Француска)" 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style="position:relative;width:270px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Menton is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur"><img alt="Menton is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg/270px-Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="270" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg/405px-Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg/540px-Provence-Alpes-Cotes_d%27Azur_region_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="456" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:61.134%;left:90.715%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Menton"><img alt="Menton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Menton</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Menton&params=43.775_N_7.5_E_type:city(30412)_region:FR-PAC"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">43°46′30″N</span> <span class="longitude">7°30′00″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">43.775000°N 07.50°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">43.775000; 07.50</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_France" title="Regions of France">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">Department</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Arrondissements_of_France" title="Arrondissements of France">Arrondissement</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arrondissement_of_Nice" title="Arrondissement of Nice">Nice</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_France" title="Cantons of France">Canton</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Menton" title="Canton of Menton">Menton</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France#Intercommunality" title="Communes of France">Intercommunality</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9_d%27agglom%C3%A9ration_de_la_Riviera_Fran%C3%A7aise" title="Communauté d'agglomération de la Riviera Française">CA Riviera Française</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Mayor <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(2022–2026) </span></th><td class="infobox-data">Yves Juhel<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Miscellaneous_right" title="Miscellaneous right">DVD</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup><b>1</b></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">14.05 km<sup>2</sup> (5.42 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2021)<sup id="cite_ref-popleg2021_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popleg2021-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">30,412</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">2,200/km<sup>2</sup> (5,600/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/INSEE_code" title="INSEE code">INSEE</a>/Postal code</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=COM-06083">06083</a> /06500</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">0–774 m (0–2,539 ft) <br />(avg. 16 m or 52 ft)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><sup><b>1</b></sup> French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km<sup>2</sup> (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Menton</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[mɑ̃tɔ̃]</a></span>; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Occitan:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="oc-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Occitan" title="Help:IPA/Occitan">[menˈta]</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Template:IPA-oc" title="Template:IPA-oc">[mɛnˈtɑ̃]</a>, written <i>Menton</i> in classical norm or <i>Mentan</i> in <a href="/wiki/Mistralian_norm" title="Mistralian norm">Mistralian norm</a>; <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it">Mentone</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[menˈtoːne]</a></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Commune_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Commune in France">commune</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a> department in the <a href="/wiki/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" title="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur">Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur</a> region on the <a href="/wiki/French_Riviera" title="French Riviera">French Riviera</a>, close to the Italian border. </p><p>Menton has always been a frontier town. Since the end of the 14th century, it has been on the border between the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice" title="County of Nice">County of Nice</a>, held by the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Savoy" title="Duchy of Savoy">Duke of Savoy</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Republic of Genoa</a>. It was an <a href="/wiki/Exclave" class="mw-redirect" title="Exclave">exclave</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Monaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Monaco">Principality of Monaco</a> until the disputed French plebiscite of 1860 when it was added to France. It had been always a fashionable tourist centre with grand mansions and gardens. Its temperate Mediterranean climate is especially favourable to the citrus industry, with which it is strongly identified. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the name's spelling and pronunciation in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> are identical to those for the word that means "chin", there does not seem to be any link with this French word. According to the French geographer <a href="/wiki/Toponymie_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de_la_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponymie générale de la France">Ernest Nègre</a>, the name <i>Menton</i> comes from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> name <i>Mento</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, it is possible that the name of the city comes from <i>Mons Ottonis</i> (reconstituted) from the name of Otton II, the count of <a href="/wiki/Ventimiglia,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ventimiglia, Italy">Ventimiglia</a> from 1162-1200.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Mentonasc" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentonasc">Mentonasc</a>, the city's name is <i>Mentan</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="oc-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Occitan" title="Help:IPA/Occitan">[mɛ(n)ˈtã]</a></span>), and in Italian <i>Mentone</i> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[menˈtoːne]</a></span>). </p><p>An inhabitant of Menton, <i>un mentonnais</i> or <i>un mentonasque</i> in French, would be <i>O mentonasc</i> in the local dialect. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Menton area has been inhabited since the <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> era, and is the site of the original "<a href="/wiki/Grimaldi_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="Grimaldi Man">Grimaldi Man</a>" find of early <a href="/wiki/Anatomically_modern_humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Anatomically modern humans">modern humans</a>, as well as remains of <a href="/wiki/Neanderthal" title="Neanderthal">Neanderthals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cro-Magnon" title="Cro-Magnon">Cro-Magnons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> times, the <a href="/wiki/Via_Julia_Augusta" title="Via Julia Augusta">Via Julia Augusta</a>, a road connecting Placentia (now <a href="/wiki/Piacenza" title="Piacenza">Piacenza</a>) with Arelates (now <a href="/wiki/Arles" title="Arles">Arles</a>) passed through Menton, running along the Rue Longue in the old town.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first major settlement occurred during the 11th century <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>, when the count of <a href="/wiki/Ventimiglia,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ventimiglia, Italy">Ventimiglia</a> constructed the <i>Château de Puypin</i> (<i>Podium Pinum</i>) on the Pépin hill, north and west of the modern town centre. During the 13th century, the seigneury of Puypin fell to the Vento family of <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a> who built a new castle along the Roman road, now the site of the <i>Vieux-Château</i> cemetery, providing the core around which the current town grew. Menton was thus incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Republic of Genoa</a>. The first mention of Menton dates from 21 July 1262, in the peace treaty between <a href="/wiki/Charles_of_Anjou" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles of Anjou">Charles of Anjou</a> and Genoa. Its position on the border between the <a href="/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou" title="Capetian House of Anjou">Angevin</a>-ruled <a href="/wiki/Provence" title="Provence">Provence</a> and the Republic of Genoa, which at the time claimed <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a> as its western limit, made it a coveted location. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg/200px-Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg/300px-Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg/400px-Le_comt%C3%A9_de_Nice_et_Oneille.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="1462" /></a><figcaption>Menton, as part of Monaco, in 1664</figcaption></figure> <p>Acquired in 1346 by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I,_Lord_of_Monaco" title="Charles I, Lord of Monaco">Charles Grimaldi</a>, Lord of Monaco, Menton was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Princes_of_Monaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Princes of Monaco">princes of Monaco</a> until the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. Annexed during the Revolution, Menton remained part of France through the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First Empire</a>. It belonged to the district of <a href="/wiki/Sanremo" title="Sanremo">Sanremo</a> in the department of <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a>, which at the time included Monaco and Sanremo. </p><p>In 1814, Menton was included in a reconstituted principality of Monaco which, after Napoleon's <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a> in 1815, became a protectorate of the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Sardinia" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Sardinia">king of Sardinia</a>. The princes of Monaco were obliged to do <a href="/wiki/Homage_(medieval)" class="mw-redirect" title="Homage (medieval)">homage</a> to the king for Menton, although not for Monaco itself.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frontiere_Monaco.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Frontiere_Monaco.gif/170px-Frontiere_Monaco.gif" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Frontiere_Monaco.gif/255px-Frontiere_Monaco.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Frontiere_Monaco.gif/340px-Frontiere_Monaco.gif 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Marked in azure the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Free_Cities_of_Menton_and_Roquebrune" title="Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune">Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune</a>, marked in orange the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Monaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Monaco">Principality of Monaco</a> in 1848<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1848, Menton, along with its neighbour <a href="/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin" title="Roquebrune-Cap-Martin">Roquebrune</a>, seceded from Monaco, due at least in part to a tax imposed on lemon exports.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They proclaimed the <a href="/wiki/Free_Cities_of_Menton_and_Roquebrune" title="Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune">Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune</a> during the 1848 revolutions related to the Italian <a href="/wiki/Risorgimento" class="mw-redirect" title="Risorgimento">Risorgimento</a>. The Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune hoped to be part of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sardinia_(1720%E2%80%931861)" title="Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)">Italian kingdom of Sardinia</a>. Two years later placed themselves under the protection of the Italian kingdom of Sardinia where they were administered by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Savoy" title="House of Savoy">House of Savoy</a> for ten years.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turin_(1860)" title="Treaty of Turin (1860)">Treaty of Turin</a> concluded on 24 March 1860 between the Kingdom of Mauricio and <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a>'s France called for the annexation of the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice" title="County of Nice">County of Nice</a> to France, subject to a <a href="/wiki/Plebiscite" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebiscite">plebiscite</a>, as a reward for French assistance in <a href="/wiki/Second_Italian_War_of_Independence" title="Second Italian War of Independence">Italy's war</a> against <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>. The plebiscite, with universal adult male suffrage, was held on 15 and 16 April 1860, and resulted in an overwhelming vote in favour of annexation (833 for versus 54 against in Menton and Roquebrune),<sup id="cite_ref-worldstatesmen.org_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worldstatesmen.org-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The County of Nice was thus annexed to France that June, and <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a> paid 4 million francs in compensation to the prince of Monaco, who renounced his rights in perpetuity on 2 February 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-worldstatesmen.org_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worldstatesmen.org-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>-born <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi" title="Giuseppe Garibaldi">Giuseppe Garibaldi</a>, who promoted the union of the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Nice" title="County of Nice">County of Nice</a> to <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, complained that the plebiscite was not done with "universal vote" and consequently Menton was requested by <a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism" title="Italian irredentism">Italian irredentists</a>. </p><p>The publication of <i>Winter and Spring on the Shores of the Mediterranean</i> (1861) by the English doctor <a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Bennett" title="James Henry Bennett">James Henry Bennett</a> had a profound effect on Menton, making it a destination for sufferers of tuberculosis.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones2007_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2007-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the 19th century, tourism was an important factor in Menton's growth. The town was popular with British and Russian aristocrats who built many of the hotels, villas, and palaces which still grace Menton today. Many of these hotels and palaces were pressed into service as hospitals during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> to allow injured troops to recuperate in a pleasant climate. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_et_voilier_(1900s).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg/220px-Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg/330px-Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg/440px-Menton_et_voilier_%281900s%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Sailing ships in Menton harbour, photograph by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Gilletta" title="Jean Gilletta">Jean Gilletta</a>, early 1900s</figcaption></figure> <p>Menton was the only sizable settlement captured by Italy during <a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_France" title="Italian invasion of France">its invasion of France</a> in June 1940. Following the <a href="/wiki/Armistice" title="Armistice">armistice</a> of 22 June 1940, two-thirds of the territory of the commune was annexed by <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> as <i><a href="/wiki/Italia_irredenta" class="mw-redirect" title="Italia irredenta">terra irredenta</a></i>. The annexation lasted until 8 September 1943. </p><p>Although officially returned to <a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy France</a>, Menton was in fact occupied by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> until its liberation by American and Canadian troops of the <a href="/wiki/First_Special_Service_Force" title="First Special Service Force">First Special Service Force</a> on 8 September 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_BW_0.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Menton_BW_0.JPG/200px-Menton_BW_0.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Menton_BW_0.JPG/300px-Menton_BW_0.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Menton_BW_0.JPG/400px-Menton_BW_0.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The port and the old part of town</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_bay.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Menton_bay.jpg/200px-Menton_bay.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Menton_bay.jpg/300px-Menton_bay.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Menton_bay.jpg/400px-Menton_bay.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>View of the <a href="/wiki/Port" title="Port">port</a> of Menton</figcaption></figure> <p>Menton, nicknamed the <i>Pearl of France</i>, is located on the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a> at the Franco-Italian border, just across from the <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Ligurian</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Ventimiglia,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ventimiglia, Italy">Ventimiglia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Menton_station" title="Menton station">Menton station</a> has rail connections to Paris, Marseille, Cannes, Antibes, Nice and Ventimiglia. The smaller <a href="/wiki/Menton-Garavan_station" title="Menton-Garavan station">Menton-Garavan station</a> is situated between Menton and Ventimiglia. </p><p>The fishing industry was devastated in the 1980s and 1990s due to a combination of overfishing and <a href="/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)" title="Dead zone (ecology)">hypoxia</a> in the bay. At the time, the devastation was erroneously attributed to the dubiously nicknamed "killer algae" <i><a href="/wiki/Caulerpa_taxifolia" title="Caulerpa taxifolia">Caulerpa taxifolia</a></i> (a non-native Asian tropical green alga first discovered in the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a> adjacent to the <a href="/wiki/Oceanographic_Museum_of_Monaco" title="Oceanographic Museum of Monaco">Oceanographic Museum of Monaco</a> in 1984) spread throughout the coastal sea floor. Later, sound scientific findings revealed that the seaweed was adept at absorbing pollutants and excess nutrients, actually aiding the recovery of native <i><a href="/wiki/Posidonia" title="Posidonia">Posidonia</a></i> sea grass<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and enhancing local fish populations and overall biodiversity.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Poster_Menton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Poster_Menton.jpg/220px-Poster_Menton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Poster_Menton.jpg/330px-Poster_Menton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Poster_Menton.jpg/440px-Poster_Menton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>1906 poster of Menton by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hugo_d%27Alesi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hugo d'Alesi (page does not exist)">Hugo d'Alesi</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Menton</b> has a very mild subtropical microclimate with an average of 316 clear or mostly clear/mostly sunny days per year. Under the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen system</a>, Menton features a <a href="/wiki/Hot-summer_Mediterranean_climate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot-summer Mediterranean climate">hot-summer Mediterranean climate (<i>Csa</i>)</a>. However, the milder winters (on average) and the warmer nights in summer (on average), compared to the rest of the French Mediterranean coastal area, provide Menton with a particular micro-climate, with significant <a href="/wiki/Warm-summer_Mediterranean_climate" class="mw-redirect" title="Warm-summer Mediterranean climate">warm-summer Mediterranean climate (<i>Csb</i>)</a> influences and characteristics, like coastal <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a>. This is usually experienced along the coast between <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a> and <b>Menton</b>, toward the Italian border town of <a href="/wiki/Ventimiglia" title="Ventimiglia">Ventimiglia</a> and as far as <a href="/wiki/Sanremo" title="Sanremo">San Remo</a>). It is favourable to groves of hardy <a href="/wiki/Clementines" class="mw-redirect" title="Clementines">clementines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_oranges" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandarin oranges">mandarin oranges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satsuma_orange" class="mw-redirect" title="Satsuma orange">satsuma orange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tangerine" title="Tangerine">tangerines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orange_(fruit)" title="Orange (fruit)">oranges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lemons" class="mw-redirect" title="Lemons">lemons</a> (<b>SRA 625</b> is protected <b>Citron de Menton</b> variety), hence one of the town's symbols, the <a href="/wiki/Lemon" title="Lemon">lemon</a>. Winter frosts are extremely rare but may occasionally occur at ground level, and snow falls on average once every 10 years. Likewise, summer temperatures are relatively moderate with day temperatures of 28 °C to 32 °C, but rarely rising above 32 °C. </p><p>Menton is sheltered from the west winds by Mont-Agel, and the steep foothills of the Alps, to the north and the north-east, protect the town from freezing winter cold. The winters are therefore very mild and sunny; the thermometer rarely drops below 0°C, and the lowest average temperature is 11.3°C in January. Summers are hot at 25°C on average in July and August but tempered by the sea breeze. </p><p>Menton holds the French record for the highest average temperature in July with an average temperature of 24.8°C. (Values calculated from data recorded over the period 1991-2020) [Source Météo France] <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Menton (Alpes-Maritimes department, France), 2009–2016 temperature data only<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF9F40; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.9<br />(18.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9022; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.9<br />(20.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.1<br />(23.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.0<br />(27.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.5<br />(31.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF3500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">92.7<br />(33.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF2A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95.7<br />(35.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF2200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97.7<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF3500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">92.8<br />(33.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83.4<br />(28.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.7<br />(24.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.0<br />(20.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2200; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">97.7<br />(36.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFAA56; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.1<br />(16.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA246; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.2<br />(17.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF8F1F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69.3<br />(20.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.3<br />(24.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.3<br />(27.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.2<br />(31.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91.2<br />(32.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93.2<br />(34.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.0<br />(31.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.2<br />(26.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF850B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.0<br />(22.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65.5<br />(18.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF2E00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">94.6<br />(34.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFBA75; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.1<br />(14.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB163; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.5<br />(15.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.6<br />(17.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9327; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.1<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8710; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.2<br />(21.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78.8<br />(26.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.2<br />(30.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.4<br />(30.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80.7<br />(27.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8710; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.2<br />(21.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFA143; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.5<br />(18.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.3<br />(15.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9022; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">68.9<br />(20.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.3<br />(7.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFE0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.1<br />(6.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.7<br />(9.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.2<br />(11.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA75; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.1<br />(14.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA042; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.8<br />(18.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.0<br />(21.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8914; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.7<br />(21.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF9A35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.4<br />(19.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB46A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.5<br />(15.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.1<br />(11.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE0C2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.0<br />(8.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFBE7E; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">56.8<br />(13.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.9<br />(3.3) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.5<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFFEFD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.3<br />(4.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.6<br />(8.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7B0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.4<br />(10.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC7A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.4<br />(14.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA347; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.0<br />(17.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.5<br />(17.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.0<br />(15.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.7<br />(9.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEDD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.4<br />(6.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFFDFC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.5<br />(4.7) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">35.1<br />(1.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #E7E7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.2<br />(0.1) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.0<br />(−1.1) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.9<br />(2.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF3E8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.0<br />(6.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.6<br />(8.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52.5<br />(11.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB973; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.3<br />(14.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFBF80; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.7<br />(13.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.1<br />(12.3) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.2<br />(4.0) </td> <td style="background: #FEFEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.9<br />(4.4) </td> <td style="background: #E3E3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.9<br />(−0.6) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">30.0<br />(−1.1) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: Météo Climat BZH<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at any point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 2009 to 2016. Extremes from 2009 to 2016 as well.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Townscape">Townscape</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Townscape"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint,_Menton.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Pont Saint-Ludovic / Ponte San Ludovico border crossing point between Menton, France, and Ventimiglia, Italy"><img alt="The Pont Saint-Ludovic / Ponte San Ludovico border crossing point between Menton, France, and Ventimiglia, Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg/200px-France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg/300px-France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg/400px-France-Italy_Border_Checkpoint%2C_Menton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Pont Saint-Ludovic / Ponte San Ludovico border crossing point between Menton, France, and <a href="/wiki/Ventimiglia,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ventimiglia, Italy">Ventimiglia, Italy</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Menton from the sea"><img alt="Menton from the sea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg/200px-Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg/300px-Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg/400px-Menton_vue_de_mer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1044" data-file-height="699" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Menton from the sea</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_decorated_window.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Menton decorated window"><img alt="Menton decorated window" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Menton_decorated_window.JPG/200px-Menton_decorated_window.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Menton_decorated_window.JPG/300px-Menton_decorated_window.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Menton_decorated_window.JPG/400px-Menton_decorated_window.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Menton decorated window</div> </li> </ul> <p>Menton is known for its gardens, including the <a href="/wiki/Jardin_Serre_de_la_Madone" class="mw-redirect" title="Jardin Serre de la Madone">Jardin Serre de la Madone</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Jardin_botanique_exotique_de_Menton" title="Jardin botanique exotique de Menton">Jardin botanique exotique de Menton</a> ('Le Val Rahmeh'), the <a href="/wiki/Fontana_Rosa" title="Fontana Rosa">Fontana Rosa</a>, the Maria Serena garden, and the modernist gardens of <a href="/wiki/Les_Colombi%C3%A8res" title="Les Colombières">Les Colombières</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Men_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Men-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Le Val Rahmeh was established in 1905 by Englishman Sir Percy Radcliffe, the first owner of the gardens, and named for his wife. Villa Fontana Rosa was built in 1922 by <a href="/wiki/Blasco_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Blasco Ibáñez">Blasco Ibáñez</a>, a Spanish novelist and the gardens of the villa are now open to the public. </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">baroque</a> <a href="/wiki/Basilica" title="Basilica">basilica</a> of Saint-Michel-Archange, with its bell tower, was built in 1619 by the Genoese architect Lorenzo Lavagna.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Bastion_Museum" title="Bastion Museum">Bastion Museum</a>, which features decoration by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau" title="Jean Cocteau">Jean Cocteau</a>, is located in the Bastion of the port of Menton. The bastion, built overwater in 1636 as an advance defence for the port by the Princes of Monaco, is now located at the shoreline.</li> <li>The wedding room at the Mairie (town hall) was painted in the 1950s by Cocteau, transforming it into a giant work of art.</li> <li>Menton is home to at least half a dozen beaches.</li> <li>Menton is notable for its <a href="/wiki/Palissy_ware" title="Palissy ware">Palissy</a> majolica pottery depicting lemons.</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_Plate,_9.6_ins.,_coloured_glazes,_Palissy_style,_Menton,_France.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg/120px-Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg/180px-Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg/240px-Wall_Plate%2C_9.6_ins.%2C_coloured_glazes%2C_Palissy_style%2C_Menton%2C_France.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <ul><li>The historic covered market was built in 1898 by local architect Adrien Rey. The market is open every day from 5 am until 1 pm in the summer; in the winter, it opens at 5:30 am. Over 30 kiosks both inside and around the market sell local and imported vegetables. The <a href="/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque" title="Belle Époque">Belle Époque</a> structure was one of buildings constructed by the architect in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Next to the beach and the covered market is the <a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau_Museum" title="Jean Cocteau Museum">Jean Cocteau Museum</a>. It opened in 2011 and is close to the Bastion Museum.<sup id="cite_ref-Teleg12_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Teleg12-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirazur" title="Mirazur">Mirazur</a> is a French haute cuisine restaurant with three Michelin Guide stars.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The World's 50 Best Restaurants list ranks Mirazur as the best restaurant in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:30em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:none;clear:none;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1793 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,060</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1800 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,289</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.04%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1806 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,336</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.24%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1858 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">4,837</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.72%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1861 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">4,904</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+0.46%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1866 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">5,699</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.05%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1872 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">6,644</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.59%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1876 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">7,819</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.16%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1881 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">11,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.07%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1886 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">9,387</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−3.12%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1891 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">9,050</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.73%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1896 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">9,044</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.01%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1901 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">9,944</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.92%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1906 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">13,029</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.55%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1911 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">18,001</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.68%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1921 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">18,645</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.35%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1926 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">22,604</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.93%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1931 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">23,417</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.71%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1936 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">21,703</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.51%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1946 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">13,864</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−4.38%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1954 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">17,109</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.66%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1962 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">19,904</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.91%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1968 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">25,040</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.90%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1975 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">25,143</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.06%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1982 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">25,086</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.03%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1990 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">29,141</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.89%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1999 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">28,812</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.13%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2007 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">28,683</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.06%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2012 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">29,073</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.27%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2017 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">28,958</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.08%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000)"><div class="center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Source: EHESS<sup id="cite_ref-ehess_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ehess-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and INSEE (1968-2017)<sup id="cite_ref-pophist_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pophist-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_and_secondary_schools">Primary and secondary schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Primary and secondary schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Public nurseries/Preschools include:<sup id="cite_ref-Nurseries_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nurseries-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Centre-ville/Vieille ville area: Adrien Camaret and the Section enfantine de l'Hôtel de Ville</li> <li>Borrigo: René Cassin, Germaine Coty, Robert Debré, and Manon des Sources</li> <li>Careï: Careï and Saint-Exupéry</li> <li>Garavan: Section enfantine Alphonse Daudet</li></ul> <p>Public primary schools include:<sup id="cite_ref-Primaries_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Primaries-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Centre-ville/Vieille ville area: élémentaire Frédéric Mistral and primaire de l'Hôtel de Ville</li> <li>Borrigo: élémentaire <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> - André Guillevin, élémentaire Condamine Centenaire, and élementaire Marcel Pagnol</li> <li>Careï: élémentaire Careï <a href="/wiki/Joan_of_Arc" title="Joan of Arc">Jeanne d'Arc</a> and élémentaire Saint-Exupéry</li> <li>Garavan: primaire Alphonse Daudet</li></ul> <p>There are two public junior high schools, Guillaume Vento and André Maurois.<sup id="cite_ref-JHS_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JHS-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two public sixth-form colleges/senior high schools are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lyc%C3%A9e_Pierre_et_Marie_Curie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lycée Pierre et Marie Curie (page does not exist)">Lycée Pierre et Marie Curie</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lyc%C3%A9e_Professionnel_H%C3%B4telier_Paul_Val%C3%A9ry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lycée Professionnel Hôtelier Paul Valéry (page does not exist)">Lycée Professionnel Hôtelier Paul Valéry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The private Institution Notre Dame du Sacré Cœur has the Villa Blanche preschool, primary, and junior high school in the Centre-ville area.<sup id="cite_ref-Nurseries_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nurseries-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Primaries_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Primaries-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JHS_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JHS-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colleges_and_universities">Colleges and universities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Colleges and universities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Sciences_Po_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciences Po Paris">Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris</a>, the leading French university in social and political sciences, also known as Sciences Po, has been hosting a regional Middle East and Mediterranean campus in Menton since 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mentonasc_language">Mentonasc language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mentonasc language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Mentonasc" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentonasc">Mentonasc</a></i> dialect is currently spoken by about 10% of the population in Menton, <a href="/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin" title="Roquebrune-Cap-Martin">Roquebrune</a>, and the surrounding villages.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It is taught within the <a href="/wiki/Education_in_France" title="Education in France">French educational system</a>, as a variety of <a href="/wiki/Ni%C3%A7ard" class="mw-redirect" title="Niçard">Niçard</a> (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect" title="Provençal dialect">Provençal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a>). However, in nineteenth-century linguistic descriptions,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as in contemporary linguistic scholarship,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mentonasc is described as an intermediate between Niçard and the <a href="/wiki/Intemelio" class="mw-redirect" title="Intemelio">Intemelio</a> dialect of <a href="/wiki/Ligurian_language_(Romance)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligurian language (Romance)">Ligurian</a>. Some scholars insist that Mentonasc is, at its base, a Ligurian dialect, with French influences coming only later.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Annual_town_events">Annual town events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Annual town events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/F%C3%AAte_du_Citron" title="Fête du Citron">Fête du Citron</a> (Lemon Festival) takes place every February. The event follows a given theme each decade; past themes include Viva <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">España</a>, Disney, <a href="/wiki/Neverland" title="Neverland">Neverland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. The carnival lasts a few days, with different bands passing through Menton's streets on foot or on truck trailers. The Casino Gardens in the centre of town are decorated in the theme of the festival, using lemons and oranges to cover the exhibits, and huge temporary statues are built and covered with citrus fruit. </p><p>The Casino Gardens are also the location for Menton's Christmas Festival. </p><p>The Menton Classical Musical Festival is also held every year in the centre of the old town. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerycaption">Menton Fête du Citron</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg/200px-Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg/300px-Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg/400px-Menton_Lemon_Festival.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="2322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg/200px-Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg/300px-Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg/400px-Menton_Lemon_Festival2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="2322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg/112px-Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg" decoding="async" width="112" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg/169px-Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg/225px-Menton_Lemon_Festival3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2322" data-file-height="4128" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg/200px-Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg/300px-Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg/400px-Menton_Lemon_Festival4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="2322" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul><p>Also in Menton, celebrated on the first weekend of July,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the procession and <b>celebration of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint-Pierre</a></b> (Sant Pie <sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), the patron of fishermen. The procession begins in the Basilique Saint-Michel de Menton. Dancers, singers, and musicians in traditional costumes from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lacapelinedementon.fr/">La Capelina de Menton</a> perform in the basilica.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crowds then head to a dock where boats are filled with people throwing flowers into the port. They then pay tribute to those who have lost their lives at sea. After the boats return, they start celebrating with the traditional fish soup.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport_and_recreation">Sport and recreation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sport and recreation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Menton has a football team, <a href="/wiki/Rapid_de_Menton" title="Rapid de Menton">Rapid de Menton</a>, who play at the stadium Stade Lucien Rhein. Menton also has a rugby team, Le rugby Club Webb Ellis de Menton.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a municipal swimming pool, Piscine Alex Jany.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town is famous in the cycling world as being the start of the climb of the Col de la Madone de Gorbio (generally shortened to Col de la Madone),<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which rises to 925 metres and was (in)famously used by Lance Armstrong to train for the Tour de France; many professionals based in neighbouring Monaco still use the climb for training and testing. </p><p>Menton was also the location of an international tennis tournament the <a href="/wiki/Riviera_Championships" title="Riviera Championships">Riviera Championships</a> that ran from 1902 to 1976. It was hosted by the Menton Lawn Tennis Club. The event was part of the <a href="/wiki/French_Riviera_circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="French Riviera circuit">French Riviera circuit</a> tour. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_residents">Notable residents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notable residents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG/200px-Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG/300px-Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG/400px-Emile_Appay_-_Menton.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1728" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Appay" title="Émile Appay">Émile Appay</a> – Menton</div></figcaption></figure> <p>Notables who were born, lived, or died in Menton include: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Living_people">Living people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Living people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Alonzo" title="Jérôme Alonzo">Jérôme Alonzo</a> (born 1972), French <a href="/wiki/Ligue_1" title="Ligue 1">first division</a> <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> <a href="/wiki/Goalkeeper_(association_football)" title="Goalkeeper (association football)">goalkeeper</a>, born in Menton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Anconina" title="Richard Anconina">Richard Anconina</a> (born 1953), French actor; before his film career he worked for several years at a holiday club for seniors in Menton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Echouafni" title="Olivier Echouafni">Olivier Echouafni</a> (born 1972), French first-division football <a href="/wiki/Midfielder_(association_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Midfielder (association football)">midfielder</a>, born in Menton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Gattuso" title="Sébastien Gattuso">Sébastien Gattuso</a> (born 1971), <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monégasque</a> athlete specializing in <a href="/wiki/Bobsleigh" title="Bobsleigh">bobsledding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Varrault" title="Cédric Varrault">Cédric Varrault</a> (born 1980), French first-division football <a href="/wiki/Defender_(association_football)" title="Defender (association football)">defender</a>. He began his career with the Menton football club.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_figures">Historical figures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Historical figures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Appay" title="Émile Appay">Émile Appay</a> (1876–1935), French landscape painter. He spent time in Menton over the years capturing paintings of the sea.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Bac" title="Ferdinand Bac">Ferdinand Bac</a> (1859–1952), French illustrator, <a href="/wiki/Lithographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithographer">lithographer</a>, and writer. He developed the house and gardens of <a href="/wiki/Les_Colombi%C3%A8res" title="Les Colombières">Les Colombières</a> above Menton for Émile and Caroline Ladan-Bockairy. The house contains frescoes and modernist furniture by Bac, with a large garden set over several levels. Les Colombières is a <a href="/wiki/Monument_historique" title="Monument historique">Monument Historique</a> and has been recently restored.<sup id="cite_ref-MH_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MH-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aubrey_Vincent_Beardsley" class="mw-redirect" title="Aubrey Vincent Beardsley">Aubrey Vincent Beardsley</a> (1872–1898), English illustrator and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Betts" title="Morton Betts">Morton Betts</a> (1847–1914), Leading English sportsman of the late 19th century. Scored the first goal in an English <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup_Final" title="FA Cup Final">FA Cup Final</a>. Died in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Blanch" title="Lesley Blanch">Lesley Blanch</a> (1904–2007), English-born writer<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicente_Blasco_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez" title="Vicente Blasco Ibáñez">Vicente Blasco Ibáñez</a> (1867–1928), Spanish author. At the end of his life, he lived on his estate, <a href="/wiki/Fontana_Rosa" title="Fontana Rosa">Fontana Rosa</a>, in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. He lived at the home of <a href="/wiki/Louisa_Baring,_Lady_Ashburton" title="Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton">Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton</a>, from December 1866 to March 1867 following the death of his wife <a href="/wiki/Jane_Welsh_Carlyle" title="Jane Welsh Carlyle">Jane Welsh Carlyle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cl%C3%A9ment" title="René Clément">René Clément</a> (1913–1996), film director</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau" title="Jean Cocteau">Jean Cocteau</a> (1889–1963), French artist. He spent much time in Menton over the years; the <a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau_Museum" title="Jean Cocteau Museum">Jean Cocteau Museum</a> is in Menton. He decorated the wedding room in Menton's town hall, and the small stone bastion in Menton's harbour wall.<sup id="cite_ref-Teleg12_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Teleg12-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Edersheim" title="Alfred Edersheim">Alfred Edersheim</a> (1825–1889), Jewish Biblical scholar. He died in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Grigorovich" title="Ivan Grigorovich">Ivan Grigorovich</a> (1853–1930), Imperial Russian Navy admiral. He lived in Menton after the Russian Revolution.</li> <li>Alfred Fréderic <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hegenscheidt" class="extiw" title="nl:Alfred Hegenscheidt">Hegenscheidt</a> (1866-1964), Belgian professor of Geography (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and best known for his lyric drama <i>Starkadd,</i> published in 1897 in the famous Flemish Literary Magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Van_Nu_en_Straks" title="Van Nu en Straks">Van Nu en Straks</a>.</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panait_Istrati" title="Panait Istrati">Panait Istrati</a> (1884–1935), Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression (friends with Romain Rolland). He lived in Menton for a brief period and has a street in Menton named after him.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Joffo" title="Joseph Joffo">Joseph Joffo</a> (1931–2018), French author. He lived temporarily in Menton during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Kruger" title="Paul Kruger">President Paul Kruger</a> spent 2 years in Menton in Exile<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lunacharsky" title="Anatoly Lunacharsky">Anatoly Lunacharsky</a> (1875–1933), Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education. He died in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Macleay" title="George Macleay">George Macleay</a> (1809–1891), Australian explorer and politician. He died in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield" title="Katherine Mansfield">Katherine Mansfield</a> (1888–1923), New Zealand modernist short story writer who lived and worked in a street now named after her. Her former home, the <i>Villa Isola Bella</i>, is used as the residence for New Zealand writers who receive the <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield_Menton_Fellowship" title="Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship">Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship</a> to live and write there for a year.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Matheson" title="James Matheson">James Matheson</a> (1796–1878), Scottish trader in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, co-founder of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Jardine,_Matheson_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="History of Jardine, Matheson & Co.">Jardine Matheson & Co.</a> He died in Menton 31 December 1878 (aged 82).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Radcliffe_(British_Army_officer)" title="Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)">General Sir Percy Pollexfen de Blaquiere Radcliffe KCB KCMG DSO</a> (1874–1934), British army officer. He owned a house in Menton from 1905 to 1934. Its gardens were the basis for the town's botanical gardens and are named after his first wife Rahmeh.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Redpath" title="Anne Redpath">Anne Redpath</a> (1895–1965), Scottish artist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon" title="Charles Spurgeon">Charles H. Spurgeon</a> (1834–1892), British Baptist preacher. He died in Menton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Sutherland" title="Graham Sutherland">Graham Sutherland</a> (1903–1980), English painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Meadows_Taylor" title="Philip Meadows Taylor">Philip Meadows Taylor</a> (1808–1876), British Indian civil servant and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Georg_Tersling" title="Hans-Georg Tersling">Hans-Georg Tersling</a> (1857–1920), <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a> architect. He designed many buildings in the town.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Webb_Ellis" title="William Webb Ellis">William Webb Ellis</a> (1806–1872), inventor of <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a>. He lived in Menton at the end of his life and is buried in the old cemetery.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a> (1865–1939), Irish writer and poet. He died in Menton.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: International relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_France" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in France">List of twin towns and sister cities in France</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menton_03092010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Menton_03092010.jpg/220px-Menton_03092010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Menton_03092010.jpg/330px-Menton_03092010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Menton_03092010.jpg/440px-Menton_03092010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Menton</figcaption></figure> <p>Menton is <a href="/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin towns and sister cities">twinned</a> with:<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sanremo" title="Sanremo">Sanremo</a>, Italy</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Baden-Baden" title="Baden-Baden">Baden-Baden</a>, Germany</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Beach,_California" title="Laguna Beach, California">Laguna Beach</a>, United States</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"><img alt="Switzerland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/24px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/32px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Montreux" title="Montreux">Montreux</a>, Switzerland</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece"><img alt="Greece" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Nafplio" title="Nafplio">Nafplio</a>, Greece</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sochi" title="Sochi">Sochi</a>, Russia</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menton&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_Redeemer" title="Knights of the Redeemer">Knights of the Redeemer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mentonasc" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentonasc">Mentonasc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin" title="Roquebrune-Cap-Martin">Roquebrune-Cap-Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_historical_unrecognized_states" title="List of historical unrecognized states">List of historical unrecognized states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Former_countries_in_Europe_after_1815" title="Former countries in Europe after 1815">Former countries in Europe after 1815</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intermelio" class="mw-redirect" title="Intermelio">Intermelio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Sartorio" title="Antoine Sartorio">Antoine Sartorio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communes_of_the_Alpes-Maritimes_department" title="Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department">Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Volume I: Pre-Celtic, Celtic, and Roman names, § 11 118, p 664 (in French).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mentonnais.org/html/extranet/histoire.html">"Fondation de Menton"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Fondation+de+Menton&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentonnais.org%2Fhtml%2Fextranet%2Fhistoire.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMenton" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Émile Rivière, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TvpaAAAAQAAJ"><i>Découverte d'un Squelette Humain de l'Époque Paléolithique Dans les Cavernes des Baoussé-Rousse dites Grottes de Menton</i></a> (<i>Discovery of a Human Skeleton from the Paleolithic in the Caverns of Baoussé-Rousse also known as the Grottes de Menton</i>), (J.-B. Baillière et Fils, Paris, 1873) (in French)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.menton.fr/article.php3?id_article=492"><i>La rue Longue</i></a> (Official site of the town of Menton, accessed April 2009) (in French)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ermanno Amicucci. <i>Nizza e l'Italia</i>. Mondadori editore. Milano, 1939.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.group-trotter.net/menton-la-capitale-du-citron_p-139-en.htm">Menton on the French Riviera</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200803201332/http://www.group-trotter.net/menton-la-capitale-du-citron_p-139-en.htm">Archived</a> 3 August 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (accessed April 2009)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ermanno Amicucci. <i>Nizza e l'Italia</i>. p 58-61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-worldstatesmen.org-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-worldstatesmen.org_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-worldstatesmen.org_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFcahoon" class="citation web cs1">cahoon, ben. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Monaco.htm">"Monaco"</a>. <i>www.worldstatesmen.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.worldstatesmen.org&rft.atitle=Monaco&rft.aulast=cahoon&rft.aufirst=ben&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldstatesmen.org%2FMonaco.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMenton" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jones2007-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jones2007_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTed_Jones2007" class="citation book cs1">Ted Jones (15 December 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IeTGSDuFU6YC&pg=PAxxii"><i>The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers</i></a>. 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href="/wiki/Auvare" title="Auvare">Auvare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bairols" title="Bairols">Bairols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Bar-sur-Loup" title="Le Bar-sur-Loup">Le Bar-sur-Loup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaulieu-sur-Mer" title="Beaulieu-sur-Mer">Beaulieu-sur-Mer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beausoleil,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes">Beausoleil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belv%C3%A9d%C3%A8re" title="Belvédère">Belvédère</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bendejun" title="Bendejun">Bendejun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berre-les-Alpes" title="Berre-les-Alpes">Berre-les-Alpes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beuil" title="Beuil">Beuil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9zaudun-les-Alpes" title="Bézaudun-les-Alpes">Bézaudun-les-Alpes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biot,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Biot, Alpes-Maritimes">Biot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blausasc" title="Blausasc">Blausasc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Boll%C3%A8ne-V%C3%A9subie" title="La Bollène-Vésubie">La Bollène-Vésubie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonson,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Bonson, Alpes-Maritimes">Bonson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouyon" title="Bouyon">Bouyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breil-sur-Roya" title="Breil-sur-Roya">Breil-sur-Roya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian%C3%A7onnet" title="Briançonnet">Briançonnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Brigue" title="La Brigue">La Brigue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Broc,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Le Broc, Alpes-Maritimes">Le Broc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabris" title="Cabris">Cabris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cagnes-sur-Mer" title="Cagnes-sur-Mer">Cagnes-sur-Mer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caille,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Caille, Alpes-Maritimes">Caille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Cannet" title="Le Cannet">Le Cannet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantaron" title="Cantaron">Cantaron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap-d%27Ail" title="Cap-d'Ail">Cap-d'Ail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carros" title="Carros">Carros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castagniers" title="Castagniers">Castagniers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castellar,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Castellar, Alpes-Maritimes">Castellar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castillon,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Castillon, Alpes-Maritimes">Castillon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caussols" title="Caussols">Caussols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-d%27Entraunes" title="Châteauneuf-d'Entraunes">Châteauneuf-d'Entraunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-Grasse" title="Châteauneuf-Grasse">Châteauneuf-Grasse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-Villevieille" title="Châteauneuf-Villevieille">Châteauneuf-Villevieille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cipi%C3%A8res" title="Cipières">Cipières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clans,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Clans, Alpes-Maritimes">Clans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coaraze" title="Coaraze">Coaraze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Colle-sur-Loup" title="La Colle-sur-Loup">La Colle-sur-Loup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collongues,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Collongues, Alpes-Maritimes">Collongues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colomars" title="Colomars">Colomars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cons%C3%A9gudes" title="Conségudes">Conségudes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contes,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Contes, Alpes-Maritimes">Contes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courmes" title="Courmes">Courmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coursegoules" title="Coursegoules">Coursegoules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Croix-sur-Roudoule" title="La Croix-sur-Roudoule">La Croix-sur-Roudoule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cu%C3%A9bris" title="Cuébris">Cuébris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daluis" title="Daluis">Daluis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drap" title="Drap">Drap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duranus" title="Duranus">Duranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entraunes" title="Entraunes">Entraunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%27Escar%C3%A8ne" title="L'Escarène">L'Escarène</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Escragnolles" title="Escragnolles">Escragnolles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%88ze" title="Èze">Èze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falicon" title="Falicon">Falicon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Ferres" title="Les Ferres">Les Ferres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fontan,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Fontan, Alpes-Maritimes">Fontan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gars,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Gars, Alpes-Maritimes">Gars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatti%C3%A8res" title="Gattières">Gattières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Gaude" title="La Gaude">La Gaude</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilette" title="Gilette">Gilette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorbio" title="Gorbio">Gorbio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gourdon,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Gourdon, Alpes-Maritimes">Gourdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grasse" title="Grasse">Grasse</a><sup>subpr</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%A9oli%C3%A8res" title="Gréolières">Gréolières</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaumes" title="Guillaumes">Guillaumes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilonse" title="Ilonse">Ilonse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isola,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Isola, Alpes-Maritimes">Isola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lantosque" title="Lantosque">Lantosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levens,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Levens, Alpes-Maritimes">Levens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lieuche" title="Lieuche">Lieuche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luc%C3%A9ram" title="Lucéram">Lucéram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malauss%C3%A8ne" title="Malaussène">Malaussène</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandelieu-la-Napoule" title="Mandelieu-la-Napoule">Mandelieu-la-Napoule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Marie, Alpes-Maritimes">Marie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mas" title="Le Mas">Le Mas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massoins" title="Massoins">Massoins</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Menton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mouans-Sartoux" title="Mouans-Sartoux">Mouans-Sartoux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mougins" title="Mougins">Mougins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulinet,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Moulinet, Alpes-Maritimes">Moulinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Mujouls" title="Les Mujouls">Les Mujouls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a><sup>pref</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opio,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Opio, Alpes-Maritimes">Opio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9gomas" title="Pégomas">Pégomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peille" title="Peille">Peille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peillon" title="Peillon">Peillon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Penne" title="La Penne">La Penne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9one" title="Péone">Péone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peymeinade" title="Peymeinade">Peymeinade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierlas" title="Pierlas">Pierlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierrefeu" title="Pierrefeu">Pierrefeu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puget-Rostang" title="Puget-Rostang">Puget-Rostang</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Roubion" title="Roubion">Roubion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roure,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Roure, Alpes-Maritimes">Roure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Rouret" title="Le Rouret">Le Rouret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Andr%C3%A9-de-la-Roche" title="Saint-André-de-la-Roche">Saint-André-de-la-Roche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Antonin,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Saint-Antonin, Alpes-Maritimes">Saint-Antonin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Auban" title="Saint-Auban">Saint-Auban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Blaise,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Saint-Blaise, Alpes-Maritimes">Saint-Blaise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-C%C3%A9zaire-sur-Siagne" title="Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne">Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage" title="Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage">Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sainte-Agn%C3%A8s,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Sainte-Agnès, Alpes-Maritimes">Sainte-Agnès</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne-de-Tin%C3%A9e" title="Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée">Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat" title="Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat">Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Jeannet,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes">Saint-Jeannet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Laurent-du-Var" title="Saint-Laurent-du-Var">Saint-Laurent-du-Var</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-L%C3%A9ger,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Saint-Léger, Alpes-Maritimes">Saint-Léger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Martin-d%27Entraunes" title="Saint-Martin-d'Entraunes">Saint-Martin-d'Entraunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Martin-du-Var" title="Saint-Martin-du-Var">Saint-Martin-du-Var</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Martin-V%C3%A9subie" title="Saint-Martin-Vésubie">Saint-Martin-Vésubie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Paul-de-Vence" title="Saint-Paul-de-Vence">Saint-Paul-de-Vence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tin%C3%A9e" title="Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée">Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey" title="Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey">Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallagriffon" title="Sallagriffon">Sallagriffon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saorge" title="Saorge">Saorge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sauze,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Sauze, Alpes-Maritimes">Sauze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9ranon" title="Séranon">Séranon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigale" title="Sigale">Sigale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sospel" title="Sospel">Sospel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sp%C3%A9rac%C3%A8des" title="Spéracèdes">Spéracèdes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tende" title="Tende">Tende</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9oule-sur-Mer" title="Théoule-sur-Mer">Théoule-sur-Mer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thi%C3%A9ry,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Thiéry, Alpes-Maritimes">Thiéry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Tignet" title="Le Tignet">Le Tignet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toudon" title="Toudon">Toudon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tou%C3%ABt-de-l%27Escar%C3%A8ne" title="Touët-de-l'Escarène">Touët-de-l'Escarène</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tou%C3%ABt-sur-Var" title="Touët-sur-Var">Touët-sur-Var</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Tour,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="La Tour, Alpes-Maritimes">La Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourette-du-Ch%C3%A2teau" title="Tourette-du-Château">Tourette-du-Château</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tournefort,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="Tournefort, Alpes-Maritimes">Tournefort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourrette-Levens" title="Tourrette-Levens">Tourrette-Levens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourrettes-sur-Loup" title="Tourrettes-sur-Loup">Tourrettes-sur-Loup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Trinit%C3%A9,_Alpes-Maritimes" title="La Trinité, Alpes-Maritimes">La Trinité</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Turbie" title="La Turbie">La Turbie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utelle" title="Utelle">Utelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valbonne" 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