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Gorbio France!!!!

I will be in Monaco for a day on a cruise and would love to vivit Gorbio. Any suggestions?

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Drive carefully--lots of switchbacks in the road. It's beautiful up there. You'll have to rent a car or hire a car and driver.

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Sorry to say I don't know of Gorbio. Eze le Village is easily reached by hourly bus from Gare Routier near the old town in Nice.

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Would it be easier to get to Eze? Is that a pretty cool place?

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You could take the train to Nice, just a short journey, and then a bus or taxi up to Eze Village.

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Yes, Eze is much easier to reach but quite different. You can take a local train, bus or taxi from Monaco. Gorbio is a local village with limited tourism. Last time I was there, with family who live in the area, there was one cafe and a restaurant open seasonally and no souvenir shops. It's set back further from the coast, though you can see the sea from up there. It's a perched village; local people who work in places like Monaco live there. Eze has shops, restaurants, and a lot of attractions set up. The setting is spectacular and you can get a sense of what it was like to live in a perched village on top of a mountain. A lot of tourists go there from ships and all kinds of tours. Tourism in Gorbio is much more limited, mainly local French and Italian people.

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You can see the difference just by looking at the photos on line. For Gorbio someone has posted a photo of laundry drying across the road from the communal laundry house. For Eze, you can see restaurants, shops, etc. BTW, how did you discover Gorbio?