Nice
Nice (pronounced "neece") is a city in southern France on the Mediterranean coast. It is a commune in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes. It has over 345,000 people living in the city as of 2012 (1,000,000 in its metropolitan area). It has many beaches. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification). Summers are hot, dry, and sunny; winters are mild with moderate rainfall.
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Motto: Nicæa civitas fidelissima | ||
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| Port Lympia of Nice | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Nice | |
| Canton | Nice-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 | |
| Intercommunality | Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur | |
| Mayor | Christian Estrosi (2017–21) | |
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| Land area1 | 71.92 km2 (27.77 sq mi) | |
| Population2 | 343,895 (2014) | |
| - Ranking | 5th in France | |
| - Density | 4,782/km2 (12,390/sq mi) | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
From the late 18th century, wealthy British visitors came to Nice, with its beauty and its warm climate. Queen Victoria was amongst them: she made several visits. The city's main seaside promenade, the Promenade des Anglais owes its name to these visitors.[1] The clear air and soft light appeals to painters. Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse spent years here and are well represented in the city's museums, the Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse and Musée des Beaux-Arts.[2]
Nice has the second largest hotel capacity in the country and is one of its most visited cities. It gets 5 million tourists every year.[3] It also has the third busiest airport in France after the two main Parisian ones.[3]
The cuisine is excellent. It benefits from the Mediterranean in the form of bouillabaisse (a shellfish dish). From the end of empire, immigration from Algeria has led to excellent North African dishes such as cous-cous. Ratatouille and (obviously) salade niçoise are more local dishes.[4]
There is a local dialect, le nissard, nissart, or niçard. It is a variety of the regional language, Occitan. It is Italian in style, reminding that the area has been under different sovereignty in the past.
Over 70 people were killed in an attack on 14 July 2016.
Parade
Sister city
Nice is twinned with:
Edinburgh, Scotland
Education
Nice Media
Nice in the Regio IX Liguria in Roman Italy
The Tower of St. François
Duchy of Savoy (red) and other independent Italian states in 1494
tiré de "La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde". Paris, 1575. Nicolas Chesneau et Michel Sonnius. Traduction en français de la Cosmographia de Sebastian Münster, contenant un célèbre plan de Paris connu sous le nom de plan de Belleforest.
City map of Nice in 1624.
Admiralty Chart No 153, 1833 (detail of Nice)
A map of the County of Nice showing the area of the Kingdom of Sardinia annexed in 1860 to France (light brown). The red area was already part of France before 1860.
From "Southern France including Corsica", Baedeker 1907
Promenade des Anglais in Nice
Le Vieux-Nice, France
References
- ↑ Alain Ruggiero, op. cit., p. 137
- ↑ "Nice, France travel. Comprehensive guide to Nice". Europe-cities.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Nice Airport". Archived from the original on 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
- ↑ Jacques Médecin 1972. La Cuisine du Comté de Nice. Edition Julliard, Paris. ISBN 2-26000-025-8
Other websites
- Dances and traditional musics from Nice
- Information on Nice Airport Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine