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Attractions in Nice
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| Vieux Nice |
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 Nice's
old town is a delightful mish-mash of winding streets, lively squares
and Genoese, Provençal, medieval and baroque architecture
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| Promenade des Anglais |
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with cafes and hotels, both modern and Belle Epoque, museums and posh apartments,
the Promenade des Anglais is a long wide road which runs the length of the
seafront at Nice . You walk across it and you're on the beach beside an
unbelievably blue mediterranean
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| Mark Chagall Museum |
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Located in the heart of a Mediterranean garden , the museum has a permanent
exhibition of Chagall's outstanding paintings, his stained-glass windows
which decorate the concert hall and a mosaic that Chagall created especially
for the building. Also presented are a mixture of Chagall's gouaches,
preparatory sketches, engravings, lithographs, art books, as well as,
major works acquired or donated to the museum's collection after Chagall's
death in 1985.
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| Matisse Museum |
| The Matisse Museum a magnificent 17th century Italian villa with distinctive
red walls decorated with trompe l'oeil stands on a hill just above the center
of Nice in the heart of an olive grove close to the Hotel Regina where Matisse
lived. The park and nearby ruins were part of the ancient Roman City of
Cemenelum, now known as Cimiez. The museum, modernized and expanded in 1993,
now consists of the original 17th century villa and a sleek and modern adjoining
structure that is partially underground. The museum's collection is made
up with the works donated by the Matisse himself who lived in Nice from
1917 to 1954; his heirs ; and with works lent by the State. The visitor
will discover Matisse's evolution from his early student copies to his mature
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