Ovo je grad u kojem možete sebi da dopustite da besciljno lutate njegovim ulicama. Pamtićete ga i da ne posetite ijedan muzej ili turističku znamenitost This is a city where you can allow yourself to wander its streets aimlessly. You will remember it without even having visited a single museum or tourist attraction H ow come I’m in Nice? Because of love. I met my love here, so I moved to Nice because of that. I remember holidaying here nearly ten years ago, thinking on the plane of those sentimental Meg Ryan lms, and then just such a story happened to me. But love al- so happened with the beautiful Nice itself. It’s not by chance thats it’s dubbed Nis- sa la Bella (Nice the Beautiful), which is al- so the name of the uno cial anthem of the city that’s sung in the Niçard dialect, because this is an incredibly beautiful city. And it’s also in an incredibly beautiful location, be- side the sea, and with the Alps in the dis- tance, so in winter you can reach some of the famous French ski resorts in an hour and a half. The climate is excellent, with mild winters and even the hottest days of sum- mer not unbearably sti ing. You can, for in- stance, swim at the beach in Antibes as ear- ly as May while viewing the snow-capped peaks in the hinterland behind Nice. I’ve lived here for many years, and as Nice isn’t a big city, despite being the fth largest in France, I’ve passed through some places a million times. And it can still happen that I nd myself amazed; that I spot some de- tail I’ve previously overlooked. Start your walk from the place every- one starts: the English Promenade, better known by its French name, the Promenade des Anglais.To one side is the four-kilometre- long city beach, stretching along the Bay of Angels (Baie des Anges), where the beautiful weather enables you to immediately under- stand why the entire coast is named Azure, after the shade of blue, while on the oth- er side of the promenade, for just as many kilometres, is a veritable exhibition of ar- chitecture, featuring a host of Art Nouveau and Art Deco gems. And when you aban- don the classic tourist sightseeing, France will emerge in its full splendour. There is a reason why France is the world’s top tour- ist destination – and that’s a combination of natural beauties and cultural sites, urban and rural ambient collectives the likes of which
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