Follow Henri Matisse along the Côte d'Azur

Matisse arrived on the Riviera for the light and stayed for almost four decades, and this day takes you through the corners of the coast that kept him there. With a private driver-guide, you'll start in the city where he lived and worked, at a museum that traces his style from early canvases to the cut-outs of his later years. Then it's up into the hills, through villages where painters and writers once gathered, finishing at a small chapel Matisse designed himself, right down to the priests' robes. Its walls are white tiles covered in simple black line drawings, and when the sun hits the stained glass, the floor fills with pools of lemon, bottle-green and ultramarine. Entry fees are covered. It is a quiet way to end the day, and a moving one.