Larvotto beach

If you’re not staying at a beach hotel and your hotel doesn’t have arrangements for guests to use a private beach you (and day-trippers from France) will end up on Larvotto Beach. Showers cabanas restaurants and shops are available and as the sole public beach it can get quite crowded in high season. Parts of it will be (literally) in the shadow of the Cultural and Exhibition Center when that project is completed. Though it’s very much an in-city beach it’s adjacent to some lovely gardens (and the Japanese Gardens are on the other side of the Cultural Center site). In Larvotto.