Apartment Nice

Nice
The funny thing is, it's true. Superbly set on nothing less than the Bay of Angels, Nice hasa gleam and sparklein its eye like noother city in France: only a sourpuss could resist its lively old town squeezed between promontory and sea, its markets blazing with colour.the glitteringtiled domes and creamy patisserie of igth-century hotels and villas, the immaculate exotic gardens, and the famous voluptuous curve of the beach and the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais. It is the one town on the Cote that doesn't seem to need tourists, the one that stays open through the winter. You could gofor the food alone a seductive mix of the best of France and Italy; you haven't really had ravioli until you tuck into a piate in Nice.where it was invented.
The capital of the departement of Alpes-Maritimes and France's fifth largestcity (pop.400,000), Nice is alsothe mostvisited after Paris.The English have been coming for well 200 years, back when 'Nizza la Bella' stili belonged to Savoy, and Russian tsarinas and grand dukesfleeing winter's blasts weren't far behind.The presence of so many rich, foreigners who stayed for months formed a large part of the city's character-, corruption reactionary politics and organized crime are part of the famous salade nicoise, along with a high density of apricot poodles and frown-faced poodle ladies. But Nice also has a university, big culture (over 20 museums and counting),the brilliant light that Matisse loved, and a genuine identity as a city- rough, affable and informal.