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Exploring Nice open daily) in St-Philippe. At the
heart of the city, the promenade
Nice is France’s largest tourist resort and fifth biggest city. It has du Paillon is a strip of parkland
the second busiest airport in France and more banks, galleries with a central waterway that
and museums than anywhere else outside the capital. Each year, runs from the old town, through
Nice hosts a lavish pre-Lent carnival, ending with a fireworks the centre to the promenade
des Anglais. It also hosts arts
display and the Battle of the Flowers (see p228). The city has its projects, sports events and
own dialect and its own cuisine of socca, chickpea pancakes, includes a children’s park.
but the ubiquitous pizza ovens lend a rich Italian flavour.
P Hotel Négresco
overlooking the town, where the 37 promenade des Anglais. Tel 04 93
old monastery of Notre-Dame 16 64 00. See Where to Stay (see p198).
is worth a visit. Lower down, This palatial hotel was built in
next to the Musée Matisse (see 1912 for Henri Négresco, once a
pp86–7), are the remains of a gypsy-violin serenader, who went
Roman amphitheatre and baths. bankrupt eight years later. In the
Artifacts are on show at the salon royale hangs a Baccarat
nearby archaeological museum. chandelier made from 16,000
The city’s most remarkable
feature is the 19th-century
Beach and promenade des Anglais, one of promenade des Anglais, which
the major attractions of Nice runs right along the seafront.
Built in the 1820s, it is today a
A glimpse of the city pleasant 5-km (3-mile) highway.
Nice lies at the foot of a hill known Until World War II, Nice was
as the Château, after the castle popular with aristocrats. Queen
that once stood there. The flower Victoria stayed here in 1895,
and vegetable market (Tue–Sun) and in 1912, Tsar Nicholas II built
in the Cours Saleya is a shoppers’ the onion-domed Cathédrale
paradise. The fashionable quarter Orthodoxe Russe (Ave Nicolas II, Ornate statue at the fountain in
is the Cimiez district, on the hills Bd Tzarévitch; 09 81 09 53 45; place Masséna

Musée Matisse 0 metres 500
Nice Musée Monastére de Cimiez
Chagall 0 yards 500
1 Hotel Négresco
2 Villa Masséna UR BAINE SUD TUNNEL MALRAUX MONACO
3 Musée Chagall Gare du Sud Nice St-Roch
Gare de
400m (440yards)
4 Cathédrale AU T O RO U TE 750m (825yards)
Ste-Réparate RU E CARABACEL Acropolis
5 Palais Lascaris R U E PER TI N AX DE BD. D E CIMIEZ A VENUE DES ARENES DE C IMIEZ Z B D O UL EVARD RI S S O
6 Musée d’Art D E PA RI S AVE N U E GA L LIE N I AVENUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE
Moderne et d’Art Gare de R UE LE PA N TE R UE VA LPER G A E E
Contemporain Nice-Ville AV. NO T R E - D AM E
220m (250yards)
(MAMAC) AV. DU . M. FOCH D UBO U CH A GE BOULEVARD CARA BACEL
R U E D ’ I TAL I E A V E RUE D ES PO S T ES Musée d’Art
GE O R G ES C LE M . TONDUTI AVE ST-JEAN BAPTISTE Moderne et d’Art
Contemporain (MAMAC)
PLACE
AV. J E A N B O U LEVAR D L’ HO T E L DE L’ESCARENE GARIBALDI
HUG O RUE PASTORELLI RUE G UB ER N AT ES F E L IX FAU R E
RU E D E
R. COL L ET
THIERS VICTOR JO F F RE M E D E C I N R U E G IO FF RE DO AV EN U E JE A N JA U RÈ S RUE CATHERINE SEGURANE
BOULEVARD M A R EC HE L RUE MACCARANI R U E DE LA LI BER TE du Leclerc B O UL EVARD Palais Lascaris QUA I PAPACI NO
RUE A L PH ON SE K AR R
Square
R. DE MARCHE
PLACE
Musée DU RUE RUE MAS S EN A MASSENA Cathédrale Ste-Réparate
des Beaux R U E
Arts RU E D E L A B U F FA D E AV . . V DES PHOCEENS PL. DU VIEUX NICE
RUE DE RIVOLI C O RUE HALEVY AVE NUE DE V E R DUN RUE ST-FRANÇOIS COURS SALEYA du Château L UN E L
PALAIS
Hôtel
AV
AV
Chapelle de
Promenade
de Ville
Colline
la Misericorde
du Paillon
Jardin
DE PAUL
Q UAI D E ETATS - U N IS
Parc Floral Villa Albert 1er Musée de Q U A I
R UE D E FR AN C E NG R E S
Phénix et Masséna QUAI RAUBA
Musée PROMENADE DES ANGLAIS la Marine
des Arts
Asiatiques Hotel C A PE U
Négresco Baie des Anges
Aéroport
7 km (4.5 miles)
ANTIBES, CANNES Key to Symbols see back flap
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp198–9 and pp208–11