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Important dates in Nice
Nice reference section Tourist information about the Côte d’Azur The Port and business in Nice Everything you ever wanted to know about Nice and the French Riviera Cimiez (section of Nice) Jean Moulin, hero of the Resistance Place Messena Renovation |
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Elephant statue adorns the Casino |
Hotel Nice Arenas/Aeroport |
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One of the greatest vacation spots is
Nice, in the French Côte d'Azur. While you are in Nice, how about a great ferry ride to Corsica? Ajaccio is the most important ferry port on Corsica Island. The white city of Ajaccio lies in a semicircle on the bay, and is set against the backdrop of wooded hills. The ferry port area, fringed by palm trees, is filled with yachts and lined with colourful houses. As the Ajaccio ferry port terminal is located near the centre of Ajaccio, there are many shops and restaurants within walking distance. At the port itself you will find a convenience store and a cafe. Meteo France provides weather forecast and holiday weather for Ajaccio |
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| Matisse Museum in Cimiez | Massena Museum in Nice | Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-mer |
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| This is the marvelous beach and Mediterranean Sea at Nice. Pictures were taken on All Saints Day (November 1) and there are lots of tourists (and residents) on the beaches! These pictures are from the Rocher du Chateau: This rock rises 300 ft. above the port and the old town. | |
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| French Navy minesweeper Capricorne visited Nice for Armistice Day November 11, 2009. |
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Akido on the Promenade Just one of the many attractions you can always find on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice |
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There's always something doing in Nice. Are they statues? No, they are entertainers! They wink at you, they make you laugh, they entertain your children. Note the slot in front of the base for contributions. |
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JAZZ ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA
Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) Bechet's style of playing clarinet and soprano sax dominated many of the bands that he was in. He played lead parts that were usually reserved for trumpets and was a master of improvisation. Many African-American jazz musicians came to France and to the French Riviera because of the warm and friendly reception of the French people. Because the Riviera is an "outdoors" place, the "jazz festival" was born. In France, there are over 250 jazz festivals: mostin July and August, and most in the French Riviera. Bechet summered many years in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. A statue there, presented by the city of New Orleans, commemorates his life. |
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Jean Moulin, hero of the Resistance MOULIN Jean (Béziers, 20 juin 1899 - Metz, 8 juillet 1943) Regarded as one of heros of the French Resistance Movement in the Second World War He was a member of the French prefectorial body. His Mediterranean origins led him to make, before the Second World war, several stays on the French Riviera. The light and the spectacular landscapes he saw contributed to his pictorial paintings he signed Romanin. He was Prefect of Eure-et-Loir ( Chartres) during the German invasion. The Occupants tried to humiliate him, provoking an attempt of suicide. Fired by Vichy in 1940, he took refuge in the free zone and went underground in the Alpes-Maritimes. Using the alias Joseph Mercier, he reached London via Lisbon, then London in 1941. Charged by General de Gaulle to unify the movements of resistance, he was parachuted back to France in 1942. The mission drove him a dozen times in the Alpes-Maritimes, where he met other Resistance leaders to gather them behind General de Gaulle. In 1942, he tried to get from Antibes to London in a submarine. After this episode, he opened a picture gallery in Nice, at 22 rue de France, which was inaugurated in February 1943. The Romanin gallery included the paintings of Max's personal collection, and was managed by his friend Colette Pons and served as "cover" to his secret activities; The apartment situated above it received many representatives of free France and the Resistance until he was arrested in Caluire, toutured and later killed. His ashes were transferred to the Pantheon on December 19, 1964. A plaque on the facade of the former gallery Romanin, as well as in Antibes, Cannes, Nice, La Trinité, Villeneuve-Loubet; and about fifteen toponymical sites remind of his stay and his sacrifice. Other references: Historic biography (Comté de Nice) |
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New Trams for Nice
On May 11, 2007, a new tram is on the way to Nice. It was parked near the airport waiting for lighter traffic to travel into the city. Rear end of car Click here to see more of these trams and read about the new Tramway in Nice, France |
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Now you can see the entire NICE, FRANCE TRAMWAY in GOOGLE EARTH!!!! | Yes! Open in Google Earth and follow the path of the Tramway station-by station. |
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FRANCE: NICE WILL OPEN TRAMWAY LINE 2 in YEAR 2016!
In a surprise move, Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi changed his mind about running Line 2 up the Promenade des Anglais and instead went with a plan that provides an 8.6 kilometer "tram/metro" with 3.6 kilometers below ground. It will cost €'450,000,000 and carry 110,000 - 140,000 daily passengers. It will run between Gare de Riquier and new? Gare Multimodal Saint-Augustin. Boulevard Rene Cassin / Avenue Californie at the Champion/Carrefour food market has a tramway in its future. Fifty-three years after the closure of the Tramway de Nice et du Littoral, the Tramway de Nice began to serve its Northern and Eastern sections. 2007 saw the completion of Line 1 serving the North-South needs of the city. Line 2 now addresses the East-West needs. This WebSite will be updated continuously until completion of Line 2 in Year 2016. |
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FRANCISCAN MUSEUM, CHURCH AND MONASTERY OF CIMIEZ An evocation of the life of Franciscan monks in Nice from the 13th to the 18th century, an illustration of the spiritual and social age of Saint Francis of Assisi through paintings, sculptures, engravings, illuminated manuscripts, frescoes, reconstructed chapel and monk’s cell, prayer-books on parchment. Cimiez Monastery and Franciscan Museum Place du Monastère (Cimiez, past the east end of the park) 06200 Nice tel: +(04)-93 81 00 04 In a 17th-century convent, still an active monastery. The museum shows the Franciscan way of life from the 18th century. The 15th-17th century church contains documents and artwork, including three paintings by Louis Brea. The park and flower gardens (wonderful rose garden) are beautiful and peaceful, and have a nice view of the Paillon valley. Open: 10h-12h, 15h-18h; Closed: Sunday, some holidays Entry: Free |
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MATISSE MUSEUM This completely renovated 17th-century Genoan-style villa in the heart of the olive grove in the Gardens of Cimiez houses the personal collection of the great Fauvist painter who lived in Nice from 1917 until his death in 1954. Works from all periods of his life offer a comprehensive panorama: from the first paintings made in 1890 to the famous gouache cutouts, 236 drawings, 218 engravings and the complete presentation of the books illustrated by the artist. Temporary exhibitions |
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ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM OF NICE–CIMIEZ Founded by Augustus in 14 BC, Cemenelum was, from the 1st to the 4th century, the capital of the Alpes Maritimae province. You can visit the amphitheatre, the public baths (3rd century AD), paved streets and the Palæochristian Episcopal Group (5th century AD). The Museum, inaugurated in January 1989, offers collections ranging from the Bronze and Iron Age (1100 BC) to the Dark Ages: ceramics, glass, coins, jewellery, sculptures, tools. |
1950s Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France |
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| We feel the picture was taken in the early 1950s based on the automobiles and the buildings. Picture was taken opposite Rue Meyerbier looking towards downtown. Note the Casino Palais Mediterannee at left. Biggest difference is they used to have patio bars. Now this is a bike path and the bars are all on the beach. |
Swimmers at Nice on December First!
This is December 1 and many swimmers are in the water for an AIDS benefit. But almost any day you an spot a swimmer. |
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Situated on the Mont-Gros plateau, the Observatoire de Nice is a real star in world astronomy.
Built (and paid for) by Raphaël Bischoffsheim in 1881, we owe its construction to the combined talents of Charles Garnier for the architecture and Gustave Eiffel for the Cupola.
Its 18-metre lens was one of the world's very few instruments to serve for virtual observations of the stars. Two thousand new double stars were thus discovered in Nice.
Today, the Observatory has become one of the world's foremost centers for studying the universe.
OCA (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur) represents the merging of the Nice Observatory (founded in 1881) and the Center for Study and Reserch in Geodynamics and Astrometry (CERGA, created in 1974). The Nice Observatory was the first scientific research institut installed in this region, thanks to Raphael Bischoffsheim and some friends like Gustaf Eiffel and Charles Garnier, who were responsible for the original plans of the buildings. OCA is the second largest observatory in France, after the Paris-Meudon Observatory. Today about 200 people work at the OCA, settled in three different sites: Nice, Grasse and Calern. In the later are localized the main observational instruments: a Schmidt telescope, a lunar-laser, a satellite-laser, and the largest optical interferometer in the world (GI2T). OCA interacts with many technological and industrial groups, and in particular with Aerospatiale, installed in the Cote d'Azur region, owing to its advanced skill in specific domains related to astronomical research like optics, time & frequency metrology, ultra-fast lasers, imagery and advanced numerical simulations. Closely associated with the observatory is the University of Nice. The University of Nice was officially founded by decree on the 23rd of October 1965. But its historical roots date from the XVII century, with the famous Collegium jurisconsultorum niciensium established in 1639 by the Princes of Savoy; it included an important body of jurists and its fame lasted till the rejoining of Nice to France, in 1860. In the VXX century, a School of Medicine spread its highly appreciated teachings all over Europe. See a WebCam of the Calern site (near Grasse) of the Observatoire de Nice See a WebCam of Nice from the Mont Gros site of the Observatoire de Nice The 76-cm (30-inch) refractor telescope that became operational in 1888 was at that time the world's largest telescope. It was outperformed one year later by the 36-inch (91-cm) refractor at the Lick Observatory. But the refractor telescope technology gave over to the mirrored telescope. The astronomer George Ellery Hale was born just after the Civil War. In 1892, as a 24-year-old professor at the University of Chicago, he organized the Yerkes Observatory.. There he built the largest telescope ever to use a conventional refractor lens. It was over three feet in diameter. But it was also doomed to become a dinosaur within a few years, because astronomers gave up conventional lenses in favor of focused mirrors after 1900. Hale, however, was no dinosaur. By 1904 he'd convinced Andrew Carnegie to give him a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to set up the Mount Wilson observatory in California. Rockefellers gave Hale six million dollars for another mirror -- one almost seventeen feet in diameter. That mirror was to become the heart of the Mount Palomar Observatory, also in California. In 1934, the Corning Glass Company tried to make the first rough casting of this seventeen-foot mirror. They cooked a fifty-foot lake of molten glass for six days at 2700°F. When they poured it, with the press watching, the inside of the mold broke up. Nine months later they tried again and succeeded. It took eight more months to cool it down. And grinding it by hand to within a millionth of an inch took years. Hale died in 1938, and the Mount Palomar telescope was finally finished ten years later. The main problem in building the telescope was casting the glass mirror, although many other technical obstacles had to be surmounted as well. Several test castings in increasingly large sizes resulted in flawed pieces of Pyrex. The second full-sized mirror, however, proved to be flawless. It was transported from Corning, New York, to Pasadena, California, by rail at speeds of no more than 40 km (25 mi) per hour. It was ground and polished over the next decade, with time out for World War II. Final tests in 1948 revealed a tiny deviation in one section of the mirror, about equal to one wavelength of green light. Additional polishing resolved this last detectable problem. |
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| Seashore and beach at Nice (March) | Musician at flea market in Nice, France |
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| Seashore and beach at Nice (April) |
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| Blues Duet in Nice on Rue de France |
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| Beach Band on Promenade des Anglais |
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| There's always something doing in Nice. A Car show, a car rally. This is a classic car show on the Promenade in Nice. |
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| Nice Opera House |
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| Unusual Building in Nice, France |
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| Vendor Stall at Flea Market in Nice, France |
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| Open Air Fish Market in Nice, France |
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