Scenes From Younger Nice

Sights from several walks on the west side of town...

Interesting hotel hotel

Interesting shopping center right by...

The main train station (entrance); unlike many places, in a nice part of town

On a given block you're apt to see art deco, nouveau, beaux arts,
brutalist...anything...except the very old

Brick art deco PTT building; "postal, telephone, telegraph"; in days
of yore, when we began traveling in Europe, you had to go to the PTT
to do an ET (call home)

Three graces...

One of many such

Not so many like this; we theorize it may have been the European
headquarters for Airstream trailers

Deco

Note painting at top

Street scene

Pretty typical deco near city center

One man's messages on the beach along the Promenade

A typically French thing is to place large educational exhibits
in public places...on topics historical, cultural, scientific...

This one scientific...with due credit to the researchers...

Ocean temperatures depicting a warming planet

A melting pole 

Colonial past...

Peeking out from a 6-8 story building

Murals and such everywhere

The old Gare Sud, now the site of a large market and food hall

Place Charles de Gaulle

Le Chamber de Commerce

Almost any bare wall gets a mural or maybe trompe l'oiel windows

Cimiez

Another day, in clearing weather, we walked up (!) the Boulevard Cimiez to see the Nice of the latter half of the 19th century, but also that of the first centuries CE. Beach bathing did not really become a thing until nearly the end of the 19th century. Hence, wintering in Nice was a thing somewhat earlier, for the royals and the aristos, and thus the grand hotels were built up the hill, not by the beach. For the Romans, Nice was initially an army staging area, but then grew to be a town of minor importance. Thus the coliseum.

Hotel Majestic...once one of Nice's greatest, now mostly apartments

Leading to the Chagall Museum, which we saw in 2010...meh

A project Mini; can't believe it hasn't been towed away

Among the many grand villas

Monument to Queen Victoria, who wintered here in the 1890s

The villes of the Cote d'Azur with their offerings

The Hotel Regina Excelsior, built in her honor, and where she stayed,
as Lady Balmoral, several seasons

Moving right along now, in the 3rd century Roman coliseum, where
men are still doing what men must do...petanque!

Not one of your more impressive Roman ruins

We did the Matisse museum in 2010; nous y sommes alles, nous l'avons fait;
it was closed for renovation anyway

More Scenes From Old Niece

There were a few days of rain, but we did get out to see a bit more of old(-er) Nice, the seaside Promenade des Anglais, as well as the port.

The Negresco, Nice's most famous old hotel, under renovation

wraps and in the rain

Obligatory tourist train shot

After 2 days' rain, Nice's (mostly underground) river is nearly in
flood

And, at low tide, is creating a standing wave as it enters the Mediterranean

The famous blue chair sculpture looks on

As do we, now walking toward the eastern terminus of the Promenade

Mounds to become beach volleyball courts in due time

Effluent from the river flooding the bay

New sculpture to greet some new conference

Who wouldn't?!

WWI monument beneath the Colline du Chateau

Looking into the port...nowadays a few fishing boats, a few excursion boats, mostly luxury yachts

Harbor entrance

Monument to Garibaldi, the great general and leader of the Resorgimento...
the unification of Italy...who was a native of Nice

Born in this building

Statue of Garibaldi in Nice's Place Garibaldi; it must
have been one of his few disappointments to not have
Nice included in the unification; but then there are probably
more monuments to Garibaldi in Italy than to anyone else,
except perhaps Jesus H. Christ

A giant fountain square, a block or two from our appartement...the weather clearing, to become everything one could want