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Let us be your guide to the Côte d’Azur’s most prestigious events: the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix  … these are just two of the special news items we have in store for you this month:

• CANNES FILM FESTIVAL May 16th to the 27th   
  In partnership with Hewlett Packard our three newspaper titles will be distributed over the next two weeks at the international Film Festival in Cannes. Our hostesses will offer you a complimentary newspaper and a smile at this jet-set event. You will easily recognise them, wearing Hewlett Packard caps and T-shirts. Just go ahead and ask for your free festival edition of The Riviera Times, Riviera Côte d’Azur Zeitung or Il Corrierre della Costa Azzurra.
  
  
• GRAND PRIX IN MONACO May 24th to the 27th  
  With the kind permission of the Interior Department of the Principality of Monaco, The Riviera Times, Riviera Côte d´Azur Zeitung and Il Corrierre della Costa Azzurra will be distributed during the most exciting sporting event in the region: the Monaco Grand Prix. Enjoy this unique Formula One circuit on the winding streets of this fairytale location. 


• France 3 in the house 
  The team from the regional television programme France 3 visited our editorial office on May 2nd to ask our opinion on what our foreigners living in the region thought about the French presidential election process.
  For anyone who missed the TV broadcast that evening, the recording can still be seen in the archives of the France 3 website. please visit, www.france3.fr
  
  
• ADVERTISING SPECIAL JULY 2007 
  It’s the locally produced products such as the delicious wines, golden olive oil, tempting sweets roses in this beautiful region from Marseille to Monaco to Genoa, which make life so different and special for the foreigners living here or for those who visit regularly.
  To generate new ideas for readers or to simply remind regular visitors of the special tastes of the south we have produced a special editorial feature devoted to the region‘s unique products, which will be published in Mediterraneum Editions’ three newspapers in July.
  And to ensure optimum value, we have a special package price for our clients who advertise in this feature: buy 2 and get 3 adverts. For further details please do not hesitate to contact: Katrin at ads@mediterra.com
  
  
• Riviera A - Z  
  The new guide to making life easier, RIVIERA A-Z is on the market in four languages: ENGLISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN and for the very first time in our region RUSSIAN. You can reserve your copy now online. Please visit:  www.riviera-a-z.com

• Presentation of the new “Guide Gantié 2007”, St-Paul de Vence
  For many years Jacques Gantié has been writing a regular restaurant column “fine dining”, appearing in the three newspapers and bringing “the most important culinary information” to our readers - revealing the best establishments to eat out in.
  The new edition of his guide “Guide Gantié” was presented in the wonderful setting of Le Mas de Pierre in St. Paul de Vence on May 14th.
  
  
  
  
  
  At Le Mas de Pierre - one of the most beautiful paradises on the Côte d’Azur, Claire Lathbury, The Riviera Times editor, Petra Hall, the publishing director, Sabine Weber, marketing director and Mr. Bruno Mercadal, Directeur Général de “Royal Riviera” attended a special occasion at which the “Guide Gantié 2007” was presented.
  
  
  
  
  
  Jacques Gantié seems quite astonished that so many gorgeous ladies accepted his invitation to Le Mas de Pierre in St. Paul de Vence…
  

May is a month to celebrate for Mediterraneum Editions:

20,000 extra newspapers being distributed in partnership with         Hewlett Packard in Cannes at this year‘s Film Festival

   

This month in Riviera-Côte d'Azur Zeitung, The Riviera Times and Il Corriere della Costa Azzurra:

• Going strong at 60 - Cannes Film Festival novelties for 2007
  
• The first Grand Prix following the “Schumacher” era
  
• As the dust clears - the benefits of the future tramway to the city of Nice are already apparent
• and much much more...