Nice - the fifth largest city in France, the second - in terms of the number of museums and the "capital" of the Côte d'Azur in combination. The center of the city is Massena Square, to the east are the old quarters of the city, to the west - new ones. Well, the heart of Nice - the central Promenade des Anglais promenade, the ideal place for hiking and rest.
The city itself is only 30 km from the Italian border, next to the Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges), at the mouth of the River Paillon.
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How to get
Nice is located 960 km from Paris, 230 km to Marseille and 200 km from Italy's Genoa.
By plane
Nice is the third busiest airport in France. The duration of the flight from Moscow is 4 hours 30 minutes (Aeroflot, Rossiya and Aigle Azur make direct flights), from Paris - 1, 5 hours. The airport is located in the west of the city, on the seashore, so in good weather when taking off or landing from the airplane, you can enjoy stunning views of the French Riviera. There are two terminals: the older Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, which is used for the most part by Air France and its partners, as well as Easyjet. Between the terminals there is a free shuttle bus.
To get to the city faster and most conveniently on express buses: No. 98 goes to the bus station (Gare Routiere), and route number 99 will take tourists to the main railway station of the city (Gare Nice Ville SNCF). The fare is 4 EUR, every half hour. At the same time, No. 98 works from 6 am to midnight, and No. 99 is slightly less: from 8 am to 21 pm. You can pay for the fare to the driver, while the tourist will receive the so-called Pass de Jour for an unlimited number of trips on local buses and trams all day.
Cheaper you can get only by local bus number 23, which departs from Terminal 1 and costs 1 EUR. Opening hours: 5: 30-20: 05. Travel time is about 30 minutes, goes to Gare Nice Thiers station.
In addition, to Nice, as well as Monaco, Antibes and Cannes can be reached by train from the small station Nice St Augustin, which is only half a kilometer from the airport. Tickets for travel can be purchased in a vending machine at the station, but it's worth noting that he does not accept banknotes, so you need to exchange a change in the airport in advance.
And, of course, no one canceled the taxi. A comfortable minivan for 8 persons will take tourists to Nice, Cannes, Antibes, Monaco and other towns on the Riviera for 45 EUR or more (depending on the distance).
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By train
The national rail carrier SNCF connects Nice with most major cities in the country. So, trains TGV (high-speed) to Paris, for example, go about 6 hours and cost about 100 EUR. The main railway station is called Gare Nice Ville, in the vicinity there are two more stations - Nice Riquier and Nice St Augustin near the airport. Italian carrier Trenitalia connects Nice with Milan, Genoa, Rome and Venice.
Not so long ago, earned a new project idTGV, the essence of which is to sell low-cost tickets for simple high-speed trains TGV. In this case, a trip from Paris to Nice can cost only 19 EUR. Such tickets are bought online and are irrecoverable.
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| Basilica of Notre Dame |
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City districts
At first glance, Nice can be divided into two parts: the left bank of the Pellon River is the older one, reminiscent of the old center of Turin. And the right bank is more modern and certainly more "off-cut."
- Old Nice (Vieux-Nice) - the main tourist center of the city with many shops, cafes and restaurants. Here is the Cathedral of Sainte-Réparate, Palais Communal, Saint-François Square, Palais du Gouverneur, Senate and Saleya.
- Cimiez Hill is the most bourgeois quarter in Nice with Belle Époque hotels.
- Jean-Medesin Avenue is the main trading artery of the city.
- Quarters of the Republic (République), Saint-Roch (Saint-Roch) and Magnan (Magnan), built in the second half of the 19th - the first half of the 20th century.
- The outskirts of Pasteur, L'Ariane and Moulins, which were erected relatively recently, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Money
Most shops and restaurants accept credit cards of all payment systems. If you need "cash", one of hundreds of ATM-ATMs located throughout the city will help you to solve this problem.
The climate of Nice is
Clearly +14 ° С in the afternoon +6 ° С at night ° С water |
Clearly +17 ° С in the afternoon +7 ° C at night ° С water |
Clearly +13 ° С in the day +10 ° С at night ° С water |
| The weather in Nice for 10 days | ||
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | + 13 | + 13 | + 15 | + 17 | + 20 | + 24 | + 27 | + 27 | + 25 | + 21 | + 17 | + 13 |
| night | + 4 | + 5 | + 7 | + 9 | + 13 | + 16 | + 18 | + 18 | + 16 | + 12 | + 8 | + 5 |
| of water | + 12 | + 15 | + 14 | + 16 | + 18 | + 21 | + 24 | + 25 | + 24 | + 22 | + 19 | + 15 |
The climate is Mediterranean. It is extremely rare to be cold (2-3 nights a year), the average minimum temperature is + 3 ... 6 ° C. Winters are mild and dry, in summer it is hot and very dry, because the city is protected from winds by Alpine mountains. The temperature rarely falls below +20 ° C and quite often crosses the mark of +30 ° C. The average annual maximum of summer temperature is about +35 ° C. In summer there is little precipitation, in autumn, on the contrary, rains are very frequent. In Nice there are 325 sunny days a year. And even in February, the sun warms, the mimosa rages, and after snow-covered Russia it's nice to change shoes for shoes and leisurely walk along the embankment.
What to ride? $
In Nice there is a transport bus system with the romantic name "Lazurnaya Linea" (Ligne d'azur, ex-SunBus). There are also tram lines connecting the north of the city with the east and passing through its center. The fare is 1 EUR, there are also all-day tickets - 4 EUR.
In addition, the city can be moved and a taxi. They, like everywhere in France, have their licenses and counters, but this does not save tourists from sweeping. So it's better to agree in advance on the cost of the trip. On average, a trip to Nice will cost no more than 20 EUR, to Antibes 50 EUR, Monaco or Cannes - 70 EUR, Saint-Tropez - all 250 EUR. Tariff from / to the airport is fixed: 35 EUR (in the afternoon) and slightly more expensive at night. In addition, you can rent a car in Nice, traffic in the city is not so terrible.
From July 2009 to Nice you can also go by bike. Parking lots Velo Bleu municipal rolling mills are located throughout the city and offer two-wheeled friends for half an hour - for free, for a day - for 1 EUR, and even for a year - for EUR 25.
The coastal towns of the Riviera can also be reached by train. From Nice to Monaco, they go 20 minutes, to Antibes - 23 minutes, to Cannes - half an hour. In summer, the additional route Saint-Raphael - Ventimiglia (Italy) is introduced.
- Do not regret 20 EUR and enjoy the azure waters of Côte d'Azur on one of the private beaches.
- Buy an armful of fragrant flowers in the famous Kur-Salei market.
- Try a real salad with tuna nisuaz.
- Check out the hotel's Negresco bar for a glass of champagne.
- Visit "Moscow in the Heart of Nice" - St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker Cathedral and pay tribute to the memory of Russian France at the cemetery of Kokad.
Beaches of Nice
The public pebble beach, which is located just below the Promenade des Anglais promenade, is not always clean. Therefore, for swimming here are recommended twenty private beaches, grouped in the picturesque eastern end of the bay, below the Old Nice. But the public beach can boast of free showers and a beach volleyball court with fine sand.
Nice rocky beaches outside the city - in La Reserve, opposite the park Vigier, and Coco Beach around the tip of the cape. Good sandy beaches are in the towns of Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Antibes and Cannes. Villefranche is considered the nearest sandy beach and is only 20 minutes by bus number 100.
Shopping: Nice stores
It is impossible to imagine Nice without its flower market Kur-Salei. This market is the focus of all the commercial life of the city. On Mondays, instead of flowers, sea reptiles and fruit vegetables on the shelves or directly on the asphalt exhibit antiques. On this flea market you have to go by all means - for quite acceptable money there you can find eerie interesting things. For example, different decorations, from art deco to jewelry Chanel 80's. At the same time, prices are simply ridiculous compared to Paris.
In Nice there is an olive oil shop Alziari, known throughout France. There they come specially and buy oil with whole canisters.
Kitchen and restaurants of Nice
More than a century since the eighteenth in Nice, fishermen warehouses have been preserved, inside of which now cozy and in a good way unpretentious, without any Michelin stars, fish restaurants. Here you can try traditional dishes for Nice: Pan Bagnat tuna sandwich, de Poisson fish soup, Nicoise tuna salad, sweet pie with Savoy cabbage Tourtes aux Blettes.
In small home-style restaurants, where mostly French dinners dine, you will not only be tasty, but will certainly be treated with a digestive - a glass of the strongest local moonshine, infused into a basilica.
Cheap and nice snack in Nice can be fresh baguette with all kinds of fillings - eggs, tuna, vegetables, cheese or meat. It is worth the pleasure not more than 4-6 EUR, the most delicious, according to eyewitnesses, are sold in the port. In general, institutions on the embankment and in Old Nice can not be called budgetary.
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Entertainment, sightseeing and sightseeing of Nice
The geographical center of Nice is the Rossetti Square. It is on it stands the baroque cathedral of the city - Saint-Reparat (17th century.) A little further south is the equally famous square between the boulevard of Salei and the squares of Pierre-Gautier and Charles-Felix - sunlit wide Space adjacent to the high-flown municipal buildings and the main market of the city. The main landmarks here are the picturesque chapels of Miserikord on Kur-Salei, Geziu on rue-Droite (rue Droite) and St. Augustine on the same area.
Other interesting exhibitions are in the Matisse Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Moreover, the city has a lot of palaces, churches and museums: the famous Opera of Nice, the palace of Walroz, the cathedrals of Saint-Reparat and St. Maarten, the Chapel of Mercy, the Chateau with the castle, the beautiful park and waterfall, the observatory, the church of St. Joan of Arc , Museum of Archeology, "Akropolis" Congress Palace.
In the park "Floral Phoenix" there is a tropical garden "Green Diamond" with a lot of exotic fish, birds and butterflies.
And just 12 km from Nice on the mountain is the old town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, consisting of 12th-13th century buildings and art galleries. For example, the Mage Fund is a remarkable museum of painting and sculpture of the first half of the 20th century: Miro, Chagall, Sert ... a truly unique collection.
Russian Nice
In Nice there are two amazing and very valuable for the Russians temple - the Nicholas Cathedral and the Church of Saints Nicholas and Alexandra.
Cathedral of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (La Cathédrale orthodoxe russe Saint-Nicolas - Orthodox church in Nice, on Boulevard of the Prince: 17, boulevard Tzaréwitch, Avenue Nicolas II. It is considered not only one of the most famous attractions of the resort, but also the largest in the West Europe with an Orthodox church, where Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich and his wife are buried, as well as many Russian emigrants.
The Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker and the Martyr Queen Alexandra is the first Orthodox church in the city, functioning. Address: rue de Longchamp, 6. Construction was started in the winter of 1856 on the initiative of the Dowager Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Emperor Nicholas I and with the participation of Russians in Nice. The solemn consecration of the church took place in the presence of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, the daughter of Emperor Nicholas I, subsequently Princess of Baden, Russian diplomats and the Russian public.
In addition, in Nice is noteworthy the Russian Orthodox cemetery Kokad, located on the western outskirts of the city. The cemetery was opened in 1867 and used to be called Nikolaevsky. At first, the land on the slope of the Kokad hill was bought by Russia to install artillery batteries, and then it was transferred to the cemetery. The caretaker is the son of an officer-Denikin and a Frenchwoman.
More than 3,000 Russian immigrants are buried here: General Nikolai Yudenich, poet and critic Georgy Adamovich, Princess Elizabeth Kochubey, journalist Vladimir Lazarevsky, artist Philip Malyavin, Colonel Alexander Rayevsky, writer Zhemchuzhnikov (one of the creators of the immortal Kozma Prutkov), philanthropist Sibiryakov, Egyptologist Vladimir Golenischev .On the marble tombstones the famous historical surnames - princes Gagarins, Obolensky, Tsereteli, Volkonskie .Here is also the Nikolskaya chapel, built thanks to the offerings of the Countess A .M .Tolstoy .
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