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  • We are taking you to Nice along the beautiful shores of the French Riviera. We will walk

  • the little lanes and look at some shops, we will show you the beach, the open market Cours

  • Saleya and bring you on a walking tour through the old town. We will be spending three days

  • in Nice, because there is so much to see in the city and also in the nearby towns along

  • thete d'Azur. Here we are arriving in Nice now.

  • During the program will be sharing with you detailed tips on how to get the most out of

  • your visit. Great station, it's a more of an old-fashioned

  • station and so you'll probably have to carry your suitcases down the staircase and then

  • you walk through the underground corridor, but fortunately there's an escalator that

  • will bring you up into the main station area. And it's on the north edge of the city so

  • get a taxi. In our case will be staying at a hotel down by the seaside at the Beau Rivages,

  • ideally located near the old town, the water and the new town.

  • The first thing we want to do is head down to the waterfront to the beautiful beach and

  • take some pictures. It's a lovely long and broad beach and we've

  • got a sunny day in November to enjoy it. The beach itself is lined with hotels and apartment

  • buildings for about 2 miles. It's not exactly a fine sand beach it's more of a pebble beach.

  • And the water is quite clean, you see they're fishing out there. Nobody is swimming in November,

  • nobody's even sunbathing, but just enjoying the sunshine and the sights around it.

  • One of the greatest waterfront strolls to be found anywhere is this Promenade des Anglais.

  • It's a broad, pedestrian, paved area running right alongside the beach with beautiful views

  • out to the blue sea on one side and the grand old buildings lining the street on the other.

  • It's been the main center of attraction in Nice for the past 150 years ever since visitors

  • have been streaming in. You see the Negresco Hotel in the background,

  • one of the great five-star institutions of the city.

  • Here's the Opera Nicete d'Azur. The first opera here opened in 1776 and this building

  • was created a century later. The south coast of France along the sunny

  • Mediterranean Sea is one of the world’s most beautiful destinations dotted with colorful

  • seaside towns and inland villages. You'll find that Nice makes the perfect home base

  • from which you can easily reach those other destinations like Cannes and Monaco. Nice

  • has got the biggest collection of hotels, it's got a wonderful old town, a very attractive

  • new town, great transportation with the tram and the major train station and just a beautiful

  • place to be. At the East End the Promenade changes name

  • to Quai des Etats Unis, the United States of America, and there's a lovely memorial

  • in Greek revival style there to thank the United States back in 1918 for their help

  • in ending World War I. At this end you'll find the Cours Saleya,

  • just behind that memorial a block inland from the water, one of the great outdoor food markets

  • and picturesque spots of Europe. One of the great street markets of France

  • is located here in the wide Cours Saleya. This plaza features fresh produce and flowers

  • throughout the day and many the stalls are open right into the early evening, except

  • on Mondays when it becomes an antique market and some other used goods peddled by colorful

  • vendors. They've got a whole variety of furniture,

  • there's clothing, jewelry, the usual, the bric-a-brac, the old books, antiques, electrical

  • items, you've got old cameras. Well when I travel I am just a sucker for

  • antique markets. I rarely ever buy anything and am really not there to shop, to purchase,

  • it's just to look around to enjoy the people, to look at the other shops nearby have a look

  • at all of these hundreds and thousands of items on sale. Inevitably there are going

  • to be some cafés near the open market as well, so you can stop for a break if you like

  • or just take a walk on by and check it out for later. Back into the market, you might

  • even find something here that you want to purchase - it could be something authentic

  • from the region. The flower shops are one of the most interesting

  • features of Nicebouquets composed of the most exquisite flowers of every size and

  • description from tiny buttonholed sprays to masses of blossoms 2 feet in diameter.

  • Flowers are so important to Provence, not just for decoration for your table at home,

  • but even more important because of the perfume industry. Grasse is the capital of that, we

  • will show you that as part of our series on Provence as well..

  • Chocolate lovers should look for the famous store Maison Auer in it's landmark Belle Epoque

  • building at the West End. The most famous artist who lived in Nice,

  • Henri Matisse, lived right here at the Cours in the yellow building at the far end of the

  • plaza. He had a great view out his window which he depicted in many paintings. He moved

  • to a larger mansion now converted to the Matisse Museum.

  • Matisse lived in and around Nice for his last 37 years about which he said "I couldn't believe

  • how lucky I was." And then there is socca. This is one of the

  • great foods of the South of France and Chez Therese is the place to go. Here I am with

  • Teresa herself, that was a treat. Socca is like a crepe, a flatbread, and it's

  • quite unique because it's made from chickpea flour, and it’s especially found in the

  • Ligurian area, anywhere from Nice around the coastline into Italy and down to Pisa.

  • Well of course it's a food market so there are lots of other eating options here at the

  • Cours. You'll find bread and cheese and of course always lots of fresh fruits, ingredients

  • for an instant picnic. It's nice to take a little time to sit down

  • and relax at a café for a drink and a rest and some people-watching. Instead of being

  • in a constant rush while you're traveling stop and take a look at the passing scene.

  • The church facing the Cours is the Chapel of the Misericordia, or the Chapel of Mercy.

  • It's built in the Italian Baroque style constructed between 1750 and 1770 by some architects from

  • Torino nearby. It has a very elaborate Baroque interior.

  • You can even buy some original paintings directly from the artist depicting the scenes all around

  • you that will go nicely with the photographs that youre taking.

  • Of course olives are essential to the cuisine of Provence so it's only natural you're going

  • to find a shop selling olives and olive oil and balsamic vinegars of all kinds - a great

  • variety here. Just inland from the Cours Saleya you'll find

  • the Old Town of Nice. For many visitors it will be the highlight of the city, wandering

  • through these narrow pedestrian lanes lined with historic buildings and shops, lots of

  • restaurants, bars, town squares with fountains and statues, a church here and there. It's

  • just a great spot to explore and hang out. Called the "Vieux Nice," the old town is home

  • to art galleries little shops small restaurants bars and cafés making it the perfect spot

  • for strolling. The old town maze of narrow lanes occupies

  • a triangular slice about 300 yards long on each side.

  • We're going to walk you through it day and night.

  • So this old town is not a huge area that you're going get lost in but you'd be amazed at how

  • big it seems as you're walking around because of all the little lanes and alleys that somehow

  • connect and interconnect, so you might end up walking around in circles a little bit,

  • which makes it seem much bigger than it really is.

  • In the off-season the character of view niece is quite peaceful with not many people and

  • no cars but in the summer it gets very crowded. There's a map of the old town with a suggested

  • easy route that'll take you right through and around the heart of the old town. You

  • could do this in one hour if that's all the time you got, or you could spend one day.

  • As you enter the old town from the end of the Cours Saleya one of the first streets

  • you'll come to is the very atmospheric Rue de la Poissonnerie. And this has got more

  • of the shops and restaurants that you'll find throughout the old town.

  • The Old Town of Nice has a special charm you just do not find in the rest of the modern

  • city, so you really want to focus a lot of time in this fascinating pedestrian zone on

  • the east end of the waterfront We will point out a nice way to navigate through

  • this labyrinth to get you in and around show you the main highlights. There are a couple

  • of main lanes there is Rue Droite that will take you right through the center of the old

  • town, and then you take a left and walk along Rue de la Boucherie and that'll bring you

  • down to the Place de Palais and then back to Cours Saleya. So it's kind of a round-trip

  • right through the town and feel free to wander up these little side lanes.

  • The old town consists of narrow labyrinths, not really streets, more of a maze with blocks

  • of shops of every kind along these narrow twisting lanes.

  • If you come in the summer time it will be a lot busier, so you take your pick.

  • We suggest that you might visit during the off-season instead to avoid the crowds and

  • enjoy the cooler weather. Europeans crave that brief summer sunshine, so work around

  • their schedule and come between November and April when the weather is still wonderful.

  • You will be wandering this way and that is your meander through the Old Town but you'll

  • always come back to Rue Droite which goes like a straight line through the middle of

  • the old town. It's a good axis to get your bearings, to go out to the left, go to the

  • right and then come back to this central spine. The old town of Nice is something very special

  • - not so much because of historic monuments or great churches or important single buildings

  • that are inside the old town, but just the total atmosphere, the environment, the simple

  • walking lanes, the shops and the people. There are actual locals living here, there are kids

  • out playing, the residents are upstairs looking down from their windows and you really get

  • a feeling of community here, of authenticity, especially in the off-season when it's not

  • too crowded with tourists walking through the lanes - that helps quite a bit.

  • There's a typical example of a staircase street: it branches off from Rue Droite, this is Rue

  • Molinaro and there are several of the side lanes that go up the hill. They are regular

  • streets down on the flatland, and then go up so there's no cars, well a few scooters

  • perhaps, motorcycles and bicycles, but largely were entering a pedestrian zone, a typical

  • residential neighborhood. It's interesting to see here the working population at home

  • - comfortable affordable housing in the middle of the city. Another steep lane, Rue du Château,

  • and there are several. These lanes are some of the most picturesque streets in town but

  • don't worry, you don't have to climb them. And if you don't feel like walking you can

  • take this little tourist train on a route that will bring you through the old town and

  • then up onto the hill for a view. Most of the shops in the old town are independent

  • and unique. You've got boutiques, you've got crafts, you've got all kinds of great browsing

  • to doso different than modern shopping malls.

  • You'll find souvenir shops with the typical Provençal items especially the colorful fabrics

  • and the pottery. There's also lots of food in the stores, go for the cookies maybe. Were

  • just rolling along together, this is part of our visit to the south of France a small

  • group of us traveling together and sharing in the sites.

  • We especially enjoyed the local cuisine of this casual restaurant. They specialize in

  • crepes and socca and salads and that's really all you need for a very nice lunch. Creperie

  • Breton. And the friendly couple running the place

  • really made us feel welcome. They are the ownersthe cook, waitress and the food

  • was delicious. You might be surprised at the variety of crêpes on offer and that socca.

  • And then we continue wandering about through this endlessly fascinating maze of lanes.

  • The Palais Lascarais is the largest civil Baroque building in the old town and the region.

  • It perpetuates the reputation of Charles Emmanuel the second, who was Duke of Savoy, considered

  • one of the principal families of the Nice nobility of the 17th century. The palace was

  • influenced by the Genoese Baroque and unites a set of 17th-century embellishments and some

  • changes from the 18th century. The building encloses two small courtyards

  • on which arched bays open up a monumental staircase. This lobby is free and open to

  • the public. Rue Rosetti is another one of these picturesque,

  • steep planes coming up from the old town. Notice the sidewalks are staircases - in this

  • case there is a little road one lane road down the middle and local folks hanging out.

  • Rue Rossetti is just a few blocks long but it changes character several times along the

  • way from the hills, swooping down and then it leads into Place Rossetti, kind of an Italian

  • style architecture as you find throughout the old town, and this is a great gathering

  • spot. We will show you more of this Place in the evening

  • You can see on the map how Rue and Place Rossetti are right in the middle of the old town, very

  • easy to find. Another major gathering point in the old town.

  • You'll find here bars and restaurants, little shops, there is a fountain and cafés in this

  • Italianate architecture of the old pastel colored buildings around the Place.

  • Because of its central location with so many roads going through you'll probably return

  • here a few times during your visit. The Cathedral of Nice is located on this square.

  • It's Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate, and this is something that could be in northern Italy.

  • It's beautiful with these colors in the Baroque styles. It was built during the second half

  • of the 17th century, a time when this area was more Italian than French.

  • The interior of the church has 10 chapels with a floor plan in the Latin cross that

  • was based somewhat on the church of Santa Susana in Rome. Typical of the Italian Baroque,

  • it's highly decoratedmany paintings and architectural flourishes.

  • At twilight the beauty of the building is at its best. In fact anywhere you go at twilight

  • it's a wonderful experience. Here in the old town you've got that ambient lighting on the

  • buildings and shops. And we are going to take you around through the same places daytime

  • and nighttimegive you that contrast. Walk along Rue de la Boucherie to find the

  • other great focal point, Place du Palais de Justice, which retains an Italian feeling

  • that once permeated the town. It's got French sidewalk restaurant serving

  • crêpes and wine, and a neoclassical courthouse looking like a Greek temple.

  • It is definitely worth visiting in the daytime when it's quite busy, and then again in the

  • evening when it's even more busy. This Justice Square with the courthouse looming above has

  • got very popular restaurants all around it and in the nearby lanes. It draws a lot of

  • people. Quite close to Place Rossetti, it just takes

  • a few minutes to walk over here from practically anywhere in the old town.

  • It's very safe walking around in the evening in this old town area, especially on the main

  • lanes where you've got the shops, you've got the people. Everybody's out and about, as

  • long as you're out there a reasonable hour from twilight right on up through the end

  • of dinner. The social life here at the Place du Palais

  • de Justice is even busier at night than during the dayin fact so popular that at 9 PM

  • many of these bars raise their prices, so you might want to get in and have your drinks

  • by 8-8:30 and then settle in for dinner somewhere. Of course the hour of sunset varies considerably

  • during the year, for example in December it gets dark at 5 PM and in the middle of June

  • it gets dark at 9:30 PM. Either way you're sure to enjoy an evening

  • stroll. We'll continue our look at Nice in the evening later in the movie, but now, were

  • going to bring you downtown, the next morning after breakfast at our hotel. In this case

  • were staying at the Beau Rivage Hotel, a delightful spot right down by the waterfront

  • next to the Old Town and Cours Saleya, a very convenient location.

  • We're going to have a look at the very attractive downtown of Nice. We'll take you down the

  • main shopping street, show you some of the side lanes and do a little winetasting.

  • You'll obviously take time to explore Nice’ s main commercial Street, Avenue Jean Medicin,

  • stretching about 10 blocks from Place Massena north to the train station and packed with

  • many boutiques and anchored at the lower end by the large department store, Galleries Lafayette.

  • You can see on the map of downtown how the main street goes right through the middle,

  • just near the old town and the busy shopping hub of Place Massena, and we will also take

  • you over to another great pedestrian street Rue de France.

  • There is a convenient tram service in nice running along the main avenue, practically

  • from the beach and all the way to the train station and beyond, which makes it very easy

  • to get from one end of town to the other. So it’s really not too critical that you

  • stay at a hotel down by the waterfront but of course it is more pleasant to be down by

  • the shore. Riding along on this new tram is a very smooth

  • experience - the tracks are still quite level so you have a nice view of downtown passing

  • by as you look out the windows. The tram is convenient because it's right

  • at street level so it's easy to just walk right on, and there are stops every few blocks,

  • so it's easy to catch. And trams like this have become quite popular once again in Europe,

  • it's sort of a rebirth of an old idea. A lot of money has been spent by the government

  • to upgrade and improve the city with the new tram, the new parks, really enhancing the

  • quality of life. Here's a quick flash back to the year 2006

  • showing the amount of construction work necessary to create this tram line down the main street.

  • It's all finished now. It's really quite wonderful to see how this

  • main street has been transformed in recent years by the tram. All the automobiles of

  • been removed, except service vehicles. Sidewalks widened. Now it's a great place for pedestrians

  • and bicycles and people, and the tram running down the middle.

  • When locals are referring to the street they don't even call it Avenue Jean Medicin. They

  • just say the Avenue because it's by far the primary shopping street of Nice.

  • Place Massena is a great hub of the city, straddling between the old town and the new

  • town and adjacent to it are beautiful arcades of Galleries Lafayette and other major stores.

  • Just beyond that central square is a remarkable new park called the Promenade du Paillon.

  • It's 1.2 km in length and it's a result of nearly 10 years of urban redevelopment in

  • the heart of Nice. They ripped down an old bus station, they remove various other buildings

  • and they put in this beautiful park with the mirrored, reflecting fountainit's kind

  • of a trick fountain, you can walk through it if you dare. It covers over 3000 square

  • meters with the beautiful trees and green lawns all around it, cafe services. It's a

  • great place for the families, and it's open from early in the morning till late at night

  • very safe and clean. It's well protected, there is a lot of staff around, public facilities.

  • It's really a sterling example of urban renewal. The park is also open in the evening, so it's

  • a great place for the families to come out after work, before dinner, enjoying the playground

  • facilities. The park is right next to Place Massena, so

  • it is really easy to get back into the shopping part of town from here, it just takes a couple

  • minutes, and you're walking along this beautiful arcaded street toward the lower end of the

  • Avenue, and there are more shops tucked away in these arcadesthat great department

  • store Galeries Lafayette, the largest department store chain you find throughout France.

  • The Italian style architecture of these arcades, with their red ocher construction, harkens

  • back to the days a century ago when Nice was more Italian and French. From here it's only

  • a 2-minute walk south to the beach, or turn around and plunge back into the downtown shopping

  • arena. This colorful shop called Pylones was founded

  • in France in 1985. It's a gift shop with a variety of colorful and animated objects and

  • innovative designs, and it's been a big hit. You see it now in just about every city in

  • France. The Basilica of Notre Dame is the largest

  • church in Nice. It was completed in 1868 in the Gothic style but it's not the cathedral,

  • which is in the old town. In the midst of this busy street the church

  • was pretty empty but right across the street there is another kind of cathedral for shopping

  • and that was packed. This urban shopping mall on the main street

  • of Nice offers 100 shops in a very stylish setting.

  • Of course you'll also find restaurants bars and cafés inside Nice Etoile.

  • It's wonderful that this modern multilevel shopping mall is right in the heart of downtown

  • so it complements the existing street-level retail rather than luring people outside of

  • the city. Back out on the main street we ran into a

  • little political demonstration. That's a common sight throughout Europe.

  • When exploring the downtown of Nice don't limit yourself to the main avenue. There are

  • interesting streets along both sides. Good example is this lovely pedestrian zone

  • in the newer part of Nice. This is rue d’France. It used to be the main street of the city

  • about 100 years ago and it's still one of the most important streets. Fortunately it’s

  • been converted into a pedestrian mall with a lot of shops, restaurants and there's some

  • hotels scattered along the street, and it'll lead you right back towards Place Massena.

  • It runs parallel to the shore about four blocks inland - it's a wonderful street.

  • Boulevard Victor Hugo is a main road with many affordable hotels that cuts right through

  • the central area. This is the kind of really local and authentic

  • neighborhood that's often overlooked by typical guidebooks and video tours, but this is really

  • part of the heart and soul of Nice. This is where locals hang out, where they go shopping,

  • where they get a bite to eat, go to the café, have a beer, which makes it a good place for

  • shopping and for people-watching. It's so amazing how these pedestrian streets

  • have transformed the cities of Europe. Just a decade ago these kinds of streets would've

  • been filled with cars and trucks in pollution and noise, and the movement swept through

  • the continent to convert these little streets in the heart of the town into pedestrian malls.

  • But over on the east side of downtown they still have streets with cars and narrow sidewalks,

  • and it's exciting. It's hustle bustle neighborhoodagain, not that many tourists over here,

  • but you should come over and take a look just a few blocks east of the main avenue.

  • You've got lively streets and shops everywhere, sidewalk cafés, views back at Notre Dame.

  • As you walk along you even get a view of the national theater, a large modern building,

  • and other side streets that wind around - it's a great place to explore.

  • There's a wonderful Matisse Museum located in a park slightly away from the center of

  • town, a little too far to walk to, but you can easily reach it by public bus or just

  • take a taxi. Matisse lived in the city of Nice for many years and created some of his

  • finest paintings here. You might be able to visualize some of those scenes that were painted

  • from his room looking out onto the beautiful blue sea, with the bright colors of the south

  • of France and Provence. Just next to the museum, they love to play

  • petanque, or boule. The idea is to get your ball near the little red ball and to knock

  • the other balls as far away as possible. This is the national sport of France, especially

  • here in the south of France, rivaling only perhaps football or as we say soccer.

  • It's believed that some variation of this game has been played for several thousand

  • years and you can see why - it's a casual friendly game, it's a chance to socialize

  • and have a little fun. Next to the Matisse Museum are some major

  • Roman ruins: a small amphitheater, housing foundations and a small archaeology museum

  • that remind us the Romans had a major presence here 2000 years ago.

  • Several other Nice museums will compete for your attention: the Museum of Modern and Contemporary

  • Art, and the Chagall Museum with the world's largest collection of the artist's works.

  • France is a wine country. There's no question France produces the best wine in the world.

  • And there's something special about it, it becomes a ritual, in the case of the Beaujolais

  • Nouveau it's an annual event. On the third Thursday of November every year it's the official

  • release of Beaujolais Nouveau, which is a fresh young wine. It is in the bottle eight

  • weeks after it's been harvested so it's very fresh and very young, and it's kind about

  • pink purple color. And frankly it's not the best wine of France. It's kind of raw - you

  • can get much better Bordeauxs that are aged for five or 10 years - but this is a fun thing

  • because the wine shops celebrate with the release of Beaujolais Nouveau with free tastings.

  • So people come down and line up on the sidewalk and gather around, and this is great fun,

  • free wine. A national holiday of sorts, celebrated around

  • the world because these cases and container loads are shipped everywhere, and it's a special

  • day when Beaujolais Nouveau arrives. They sell 1 million cases of this Beaujolais

  • Nouveau all around the world. Half of it is consumed within France. It's the biggest wine

  • party ever on the day that it's released. A wine that's been harvested, the grapes have

  • been harvested this year, September, and so it's a great party every year in France, on

  • the third Thursday of every November, comes out the Beaujolais Nouveau. These are the

  • new ones. This is the new one so it's vintage 2013, as it says on the bottle. And so forbidden

  • by the law to open it before today. Really? By law? Oh yeah, better not. It's been a good

  • year? I think it's been a good year. 2013, was a good year. 2013. Banana, raspberry,

  • strawberry even sometimes, and that's a classic Beaujolais Nouveau.

  • So, today is Beaujolais Nouveau Day? Yes, I like it. Was it a good year? Yeah, it's

  • a good year, thank you. The Old Town of Nice is especially lovely

  • to walk through at nightthe shops are open, the restaurants are open, and people

  • are out for a stroll. Appreciate this intersection if you would

  • for a moment. Here we have three pedestrian lanes coming together: we have got Rue Droite,

  • Rue Collet and Rue Françoise all crashing together in his wonderful little spot surrounded

  • by cafés and shops and people. The Old Town is perhaps the most interesting

  • part of Nice, fascinating for its labyrinth of narrow streets, picturesque and animated

  • peoples and buildings, expressing something Italian and their general character.

  • Now it's early evening, which is a magical time to be out strolling of course with the

  • twilight and the shop lightsvery safe, very friendly – a lovely place to stroll.

  • And in the evening the Old Town is alive, the shops stay open especially in this tourist

  • area. The shops are open till 9 PM, some of them even later. Many of them do close in

  • the afternoon for siesta, we are in the south of Europe and they follow that traditional

  • custom, so it might not be best to stroll here at 1 PM or two or 3 o'clock, a lot of

  • the stores are closed, but they'll be reopening at three or 4 o'clock.

  • Rue du Collet is one of the main lanes of the old town. It changes names a few times

  • up ahead and it just wanderers, it meanders - it's not quite straight, there's a little

  • bit of a curve here and there. You have got some cafés, you got tourist shops, youve

  • got local shops and people out walking, especially here at twilight - this is perfect.

  • As you walk along Rue du Collet you will soon arrive at this little intersection it's a

  • charming spot were three lanes come together. It's called Place Central, and at this little

  • Place it is a simple little affair - you got a little restaurant that sells the socca and

  • other Nicoise specialties. You have got a café on the other side, there's a little

  • food market here, you can buy some gadgets and gizmos. This fresh produce market is fun.

  • You can shop for some clothing, all in an arm's reach of this Place Central.

  • A few hundred years ago this was already a very old part of town and had become somewhat

  • rundown and dilapidated and it's really just in the past century it's come back to life

  • again. So there's a beauty in this Old Town of just

  • simply walking. Now it's often overlooked for example in guidebooks or historical memoirs

  • or even dismissed as a place that's kind of dark and narrow and congested, but it really

  • deserves to be front and center when you come to visit Nice. It's what makes the city so

  • very special, along with the beachfront of course, the marvelous white broad beach and

  • the promenades down by the Mediterranean Sea. The modern downtown certainly is lovely, you'll

  • want to be sure to also visit that downtown area, but these little back lanes are really

  • something special. And yes there are plenty of art galleries

  • along the way. You might even get a chance to meet the artist himself. Usually theyre

  • inside and maybe doing a little bit of painting. It is like Streetside Museum of Contemporary

  • Art. This is art that's very much up to date - it was just created yesterday.

  • There are several especially picturesque intersections here in the Old Town where the lanes come

  • together and merge, with beautiful lighting at night.

  • And then as you keep walking along Rue du Collet it changes names and becomes Rue de

  • la Boucherie, the same street, and just keeps winding along as you pass more of these shops,

  • and notice they are open in the evening. Were walking at about 7:30 and there are plenty

  • of people out. This of course is a very safe neighborhood, it's a family kind of place.

  • On the opposite side of the old town, the east side, this pedestrian lane joins up with

  • the busy street which leads into Place Garibaldi in the newer part of town.

  • Like many cities in Europe, especially France, they have communal bike rental racks.

  • Place Garibaldi is another major square in Nice. It's a transit hub, the tram goes through

  • here. There is a bus stop that will take you on to Monaco, about 30 minutes away. This

  • Place has recently been renovated, it is upgraded, it's looking beautiful. And it's named after

  • Garibaldi, who was born in Nice. He was the great unifier of Italy, which used to own

  • this territory until the end of the 19th century. This neighborhood is quite lively because

  • people live here. Most of the upper floors in the Old Town are residential apartments

  • with full-time residents and that gives it a real home quality. You see the life in the

  • streets here is what modern major urban centers are trying to re-create, trying to strive

  • for - real streets with real people living out their daily lives, and it's on a human

  • scale because you don't have skyscrapers, you don't have massive structures all around.

  • It is people and their homes and the shops down below, with a steady stream of visitors

  • and locals walking on into the evening. We're going to take you on an extended evening

  • walk through the Old Town at the end of the program.

  • But for now we're taking you to an evening viewpoint to watch the sunset along the shore,

  • and then up to the top of Castle Hill for a spectacular view looking down over the town.

  • To get this view you walk along the east end of the waterfront promenade on the Quais des

  • Etats Unit, and to the end you'll have this rocky outcrop with a terrace, with a commanding

  • view looking back along the pebbly beach of Nice.

  • The view gets even more spectacular when you go up to the top of Castle Hill, or as they

  • call it the Château. Here's a quick view from Google Earth showing

  • how the hill of the castle towers over the Old Town of Nice and the city beyond.

  • The easiest way to get up to the top of this hill is take the elevator. You pay a small

  • fee, it's about €1, and it's well worth it, otherwise you've got to walk up a huge

  • staircase. It's the equivalent of going up over 100 meters high, so it's really way up

  • in the sky. You don't want to walk it if you can avoid it, so take the elevator. It's quick,

  • it's simple, especially late in the day likethis there is no crowd, there's no line

  • and you come out on top and start enjoying the view.

  • And right away you're looking down on the Old Town and the Cours Saleya. There's all

  • the booths getting ready for the next morning's market.

  • There is a map posted to help you find your way, to locate viewpoints on both sides. But

  • it can be a little confusing, there's no signs on the paths. You want to go up this unmarked

  • staircase, don't go straight on the main lane because that does not bring you to the top.

  • And you can walk up a little higher. This little small child can make it. Oh it's a

  • big climb for this little girl so that shows you can do it, no problem. So keep walking

  • when you get up to the top. They even have a waterfall, it is an artificial waterfall

  • that was put here in the 1830s to help attract the tourist nobility from England and the

  • rest of France to come on down and visit Nice. The shoreline view gets even better as the

  • night lights come on. While you're up on the hill enjoying the town

  • view be sure to walk to the other side of the hill for the harbor view. And there's

  • a beautiful green park in-between. Looking down from the other side of the hill

  • you see the small boat harbor called Port Lympia, and in the distance, Cape Denise.

  • It's believed this Castle Hill was the site of some of the earliest settlements in the

  • area. They lived up here for self-defense. In very early times the Ligurians, who were

  • the first inhabitants of Nice had their dwellings upon the rock of the castle, and later it's

  • probable that the earliest Greek settlers lived there.

  • But as times became more settled they began spreading down onto the plain and the old

  • hilltown became a mere fortress to be used in time of need. And a fortress it remained,

  • developing as centuries followed each other into a great and impregnable castle.

  • Another way to get up here and back down is on the tourist tram.

  • If you have the patience or the proper timing to stick around for the late sunset it reaches

  • the visual peak. This is really grand with the lights blazing down below, the golden

  • sunset off in the horizon. This makes for one of those travel events that you will just

  • never forget. And when you're done you can take that same

  • elevator ride back down again, timing it so that you get down before the elevator shuts

  • for the evening. Or you could walk down, it's not as hard as walking up, but so much easier

  • to just simply ride the elevator. Now we're going to take you on a walk through

  • the Old Town of Nice at night. It's a very special time to be here. Shops are still up

  • on until 8:30-9:00 o'clock, depending on the season. Restaurants and bars, cafés of course

  • go well into the night. There's always lots of people around so it's a friendly and interesting

  • place to roam. This Old Town is so attractive that just seeing

  • it during the daytime, which you've probably already done, is not enough. You want to come

  • back and enjoy it once again at night when it looks like a different place with this

  • special twilight ambience. Depending on the season it might be this dark

  • at 6 PM in the winter for example or at 9:30 in the summertime. Either way that period

  • just after twilight is the most magical time to be out. You've still got a little bit of

  • lingering ambient light in the sky, and the shop windows are on, the street lights are

  • on, and it's very lively. Walking through these narrow, dark lanes illuminated

  • by shop lights and livened by people passing by makes you feel like you're in one of the

  • dream places of the earth. You have to give Nice time and get out of

  • your rut before you awaken to its unique characteristics. And then if you detach yourselves from the

  • amusement seekers, the time killers, the apathetic, the bored and the blasé tourists you begin

  • to realize that the metropolis of the Riviera is a world in itself – a reservoir for exploration

  • and reflection. Nice is the largest city along thete d'Azur,

  • and with a population of about 1 million it's the second largest French city along the shores

  • of the Mediterranean after Marseille. It makes an ideal home base for seeing all

  • of the sites along the coast. It is one of the most beautiful places and offers a large

  • number of hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Nice is centrally located with excellent

  • rail and bus services that connect all of the towns along this coastline.

  • And as we are walking along through the lanes there is not really a lot to describe - it's

  • mostly interesting visuals of seeing the shops and the people, the old buildings, the architecture,

  • and it does bring to mind the very old history of Nice, so as we walk along, I let me just

  • reflect a little bit and tell you some about the very long history of the city in the south

  • of France – 3000 years of history boiled down to 3 minutes.

  • Several hundred years ago nearly the entire population lived in the Old Townthat

  • really was the entire city. There were a few people living up on the hill and a few around

  • the bend over by the harbor, a few houses scattered of course up hillsides in the interior,

  • but one can imagine that at least 90% of the population was clustered right here in what

  • is now the old town. So the history of Nice, you can imagine, is

  • very long and tangled up with a lot of warfare and a lot of different tribes of people coming

  • through because Nice has always been on a frontier. Even today it's very much close

  • to the borders of Italy, and being on the Mediterranean it's really a frontier with

  • the north coast of Africa as well. And this has always been the case, for thousands of

  • years it's been a crossroads. The Riviera first enters into the actual historical

  • period about six centuries before the birth of Christ, with a group called the Phoeceians

  • , who came ultimately from Greece. They were living along the shores of the Mediterranean

  • and were battling with the Persians, and ended up over in this part of what is now the Riviera.

  • These early Greek settlers were often harassed by the native Ligurian tribes and so these

  • Phoeceians appealed to ancient Rome to intervene and help them out - and this was in 154 BC

  • - and this is what brought Rome into the picture and they stayed and occupied the area for

  • the next 500 years. And the Mediterranean coast was declared a

  • Roman province which occurred in the reign of Augustus about 2000 years ago.

  • By about the 4th century A.D. with the decline of the Roman Empire, Christianity became pretty

  • well-established and then by the early Middle Ages the Nice area attained some commercial

  • importance. The French Revolution of 1789 affected Nice

  • for a variety of reasons and ended up by making it part of France, which it remained until

  • it then detached from France in 1814. At that time Nice was once more united to

  • the fortunes of the House of Savoy, a royal family based in northern Italy, bringing a

  • strong Italian influence to the area. And so it remained for close to half a century,

  • when further political developments brought about its return to France, under Napoleon

  • III. It's Been French Ever since. At the same time, in 1860, construction of

  • the railroad was completed and the beginnings of the tourism boom started. Travelers could

  • now arrive easily from all over Europe and Nice took off as one of the great centers

  • of tourism. After such a busy evening with all that walking

  • through the old town and sampling the Beaujolais, got to get some rest and then up and at 'em

  • the next day. I was out quite early for a walk right after

  • breakfast and was surprised to find so many people out. The café was alive, there were

  • customers sitting around, this is most unusual, and the lighting was beautiful. It seemed

  • like too good to be real... it almost seemed like, wait a minute, it is a movie shoot.

  • Yeah these guys have got their equipment and cameras, and they're working hard at about

  • 7:30 in the morning. It's almost inevitable if you spend enough

  • time in these beautiful places you're going to run into film productions. Maybe they're

  • shooting a commercial, perhaps it's an episode for a television program, maybe it's a feature

  • film, there might even be a famous star around somewhere. But it's best just to kind of stay

  • out of their way. You take a look, you can take a few pictures if you like, but just

  • don't cause any problems. Another surprise this early was to see so

  • much action at a pub. Well they drank a lot of beer last night apparently. They've got

  • to restock all those barrels. Well folks it's finally time to leave Nice.

  • We've enjoyed a long visit here. We've shown you all around the town, the old town, the

  • downtown. We've also taken you to nearby cities in other movies, over to Cannes and Antibes,

  • St-Paul, over to Vence, Monaco all around this amazingte d'Azur. Now we're heading

  • out, we're taking taxi over the train station and we will continue on our merry journey

  • to the next destination which is going to be the Italian Rivierawere heading for

  • Cinque Terre. It's a pretty long train ride from Nice to

  • Santa Margheritta. That will be our base for exploring Cinque Terre, and Portofino and

  • other sites of that area. The train makes a brief stop in Monaco, one

  • of the cleanest train stations you'll ever see. We have a big movie about Monaco you've

  • got to take a look at. It's the world's richest country and in many ways an ideal model of

  • urban planning, but that's another story. And then we carry on along the coast with

  • some beautiful views of the Mediterranean Sea out the window.

  • We've got a lot more movies about Provence and the South of France. Take a look at our

  • YouTube channel.

We are taking you to Nice along the beautiful shores of the French Riviera. We will walk

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