French Riviera to Italy: A 4K Coastal Drive : Relaxing Music
- Journey
- ER009
- Duration
- 47 min
- Distance
- ~60 km
- Region
- Italian Riviera
- Countries
- 🇫🇷 🇮🇹
- Published
- 25 Sept 2026 · Autumn
Chapters
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Leaving Nice
- 1:03Tunnel after tunnel
- 6:01French toll
- 8:41First sight of the sea
- 17:05Old stone arches
- 20:03Into Italy — Ventimiglia
- 21:33The border toll
- 22:03White cliffs of Liguria
- 26:33Past Bordighera
- 30:03Viaducts above the coast
- 32:19Leaving the motorway
- 35:03The coast road and the sea
- 43:13Palms along the seafront
- 45:03Into Sanremo
- 46:47Thanks for riding along
Route
● Nice → ● Sanremo
Pins show start and finish; dashed lines are approximate. Exact GPS tracks are being added drive by drive.
From the description
Nice to Sanremo — out of France, along the coast, into Italy. Forty-seven
minutes of driving, no commentary, with relaxing music instead of engine noise.
This is the first Endless Roads film with a soundtrack.
The road east out of Nice spends most of its time inside the hills: tunnel
after tunnel, rock cuttings, viaducts, and the Mediterranean showing up on the
left whenever the cliffs let it. The signs change to Italian around twenty
minutes in, at Ventimiglia. After the border toll come the white limestone
cliffs of Liguria, then the long viaducts above the coast. The last fifteen
minutes leave the motorway for the old coast road: sea on one side, greenhouses
and palm trees on the other, finishing in the streets of Sanremo.
Recorded 12 September 2026. Shot in 4K at 60fps.
🔤 TURN CAPTIONS ON for the history of the places on the signs: the Roman town
under Ventimiglia, the palms Bordighera has sent to the Vatican for 400 years,
the village that calls itself a principality, and why this stretch is called
the Riviera of Flowers.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:21 Leaving Nice
1:03 Tunnel after tunnel
6:01 French toll
8:41 First sight of the sea
17:05 Old stone arches
20:03 Into Italy — Ventimiglia
21:33 The border toll
22:03 White cliffs of Liguria
26:33 Past Bordighera
30:03 Viaducts above the coast
32:19 Leaving the motorway
35:03 The coast road and the sea
43:13 Palms along the seafront
45:03 Into Sanremo
46:47 Thanks for riding along
THE ROUTE
Nice → the motorway east → Ventimiglia → past Bordighera → off the motorway →
the coast road → Sanremo. Every Italian place named here and in the captions was
read off a road sign in the footage; Nice and Sanremo are the start and finish.
MUSIC
Ten tracks from the YouTube Audio Library, all cleared for use without
attribution: Walking in the Sky (Nico Staf) · Among The Stars (Everet Almond) ·
Twinkle, Pulsar, Event Horizon, Singularity (The Grey Room / Density & Time) ·
Lord Of The Dawn, Tratak, Thin Places, The Blue Pearl (Jesse Gallagher).
ABOUT THE CHANNEL
Endless Roads is long-form 4K driving film — the road exactly as it unfolds, no
narration, nothing sped up. Put it on in the background, or ride along properly.
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#Liguria #FrenchRiviera #Nice #ScenicDrive #4KDrive #4K60fps #SlowTV
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