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The restaurant at the Hotel Martinez is where stars dine, as the signed photos in the foyer attest. The menu is suitably opulent, with lobster and foie gras. Dress to kill and prepare to reach your credit card limit (see La Palme d’Or, Hôtel Martinez, Cannes).

Book a year ahead and you just might get a table at the place where film and three Michelin stars meet at festival time. The rest of the year the waiting list is not as long, but booking is essential.

This late night hangout attracts the stay-up-late crowd until the early hours all summer long and the cream of the world’s movie business wind up the night here during the film festival (see Cannes Film Festival).

The most prestigious and expensive bouillabaisse restaurant in newly fashionable Marseille attracts France’s movers and shakers from the worlds of business, media and politics – indeed President Jacques Chirac’s dinner bills here became part of a scandal over the perks of French high political office in 2001.

To mingle with the rich, famous and beautiful, book a room at St-Trop’s most fashionable hotel and swan into Les Caves du Roy, the hotel’s nightclub. Les Caves in season is the haunt of super models, film stars and racing drivers. Gucci, Versace or Armani almost compulsory (see Les Caves du Roy, St-Tropez).

One of the flashiest café-terraces attracts some of the world’s brightest stars – Roman Polanski, Jude Law and Gabriel Byrne have been sighted – during the film festival and a high-spending, fashionable clientele year-round. Anything stronger than coffee costs a fortune (see Majestic Barrière, Cannes).

This museum celebrates Marquis Folco de Baroncelli-Javon (1869– 1943), who spent his life maintaining the traditions of Camargue gardians (see Bouches-du-Rhône).

The Camargue comes to life in this fascinating museum, housed in a farmhouse (see Musée Camarguais).

Dominating the seaside village, this 12th-century church (see Eglise de Notre-Dame, Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer) houses relics of St Sarah and has superb views from its roof terrace.

Launched by action heroes Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Planet Hollywood is part of a worldwide chain of movie-themed bar-restaurants and is affordable fun, with potential star-spotting thrown in (see Planet Hollywood, Cannes).