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84  PROVENCE AREA B Y AREA

u Street-by-Street: Nice

A dense network of pedestrian alleys, narrow buildings
and pastel, Italianate façades make up Vieux Nice or
the Old Town. Its streets contain many fine 17th-
century Italianate churches, among them St-François-
de-Paule, behind the Opéra, and l’Eglise du Jésus in
the rue Droite. Most of the seafront, at quai des Etats-
Unis, is taken up by the Ponchettes, a double row of
low houses with flat roofs, a fashionable walk before
the promenade des Anglais was built. To the east of
this lies the Colline du Château, occupied in the 4th . Cathédrale Ste-Réparate
century by Greeks who kept Built in 1650 by the Nice B O U C H E R I E
architect J-A Guiberto
fishing nets on the quay. in Baroque style, this
has a fine dome of
Palais de Justice glazed tiles and an L A
This awesome building 18th-century tower. D E
was inaugurated on R U E
17 October 1892,
replacing the smaller R U E F G A L L A O
quarters used before
Nice became part E
of France. On the same C H
site was a 13th-century R
church and convent. A
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. Cours Saleya B O S I O
The site of an enticing vegetable C O U R S
and flower market, it is also a lively
RUE ST-F DE PAULE
area at night.

Opera House
Built in 1855, the ornate and sumptuous
Opéra de Nice has its entrance just off the
quai des Etats-Unis.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp198–9 and pp208–11