Fontana Rosa is one of the Riviera's most unusual gardens: a flamboyant Spanish-Moorish fantasy created by the novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez — author of Blood and Sand and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — in the 1920s. He covered it with Valencian ceramic tiles, colourful pergolas, fountains, and busts of his literary heroes.
Ibáñez died before completing his vision, and the garden deteriorated through most of the 20th century. Menton restored it in the 2000s and it is now open for guided visits. The combination of vivid colour, literary references, and Mediterranean plants makes it unlike anything else on the coast.