Northward from Place Gambetta, Avenue Borriglione runs to the populous quarter of St. Maurice, to the west of which is the quarter St. Barthélemy, with a church and monastery founded on the site of a church destroyed by the Turks in 1543.

An inscription under the sundial asserts that “The passing hour wounds us the final one kills us.”

The spot can easily be reached by way of Boulevard Auguste Raynaud, which runs northward from the centre of Boulevard Joseph Garnier. At the top of the boulevard one bears to the left and almost at once to the right. The burial-ground, now only used by families having tombs in it, is the last resting-place of many aristocratic Nicois.

At No. 73 Avenue St. Barthélemy is the Musée du Vieux Logis. Farther north is the St. Syivestre quarter.

The Boulevard Carabacel, to which lead all the thorough-fares running eastward from the Avenue de la Victoire, lies on the south side of elevated Carabacel, one of the most bracing parts of Nice, and favoured by those loving a quiet life. The boulevard is continued northward by the Avenue Désambrois, from which rises the Boulevard de Cimiez, affording fine views and having at its upper end a Statue of Queen Victoria.

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A few yards from the marble cross in Quai des Usa in Nice, there is the English-American Library and the principal English Church in Nice. Both can be entered from the inland parallel thoroughfare. In the burial ground (not now used) is the grave, marked by a large white marble cross, of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte (d. 1847), many years vicar of Brixham, Devon, and author of various hymns including that beginning ” Abide with inc.”

The present English cemetery is near the town’s great cemetery of Caucade, a mile westward.

Continuing along Avenue de la Victoire, one almost at once has on the right Rue de l’Hotel des Postes, leading to the Post Office in Place Wilson. A little farther, the Avenue crosses a very fine wide thoroughfare which on the right is Boulevard Dubouchage, containing the Public Library, and on the left is Boulevard Victor Hugo, the site of the American Church.

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The Quai des Etats-Unis (USA), which goes eastward from the Promenade des Anglais, was named in recognition of the part taken by the United States of America in the 1914-18 War.

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It is continued by the short Quai Rauba Capéu (rob hat), in allusion to the winds often encountered at the extremity of the cape. Near its farther end is the Port. At the meeting-point of the two principal portions of the sea-front is the mouth of the Paillon, a torrent of which the lower part has been covered and on which are now Place Masséna, on the eastern side of the Jardin Albert I, the Municipal Casino, and a long area behind the building, now the central gathering point of the buses and coaches, embraced between Boulevard Jean Jaurès and Avenue Felix Faure, leading to the very large modern Lycèe, just beyond which scores of women may be seen washing clothes in the stream.

In the rear of the Casino are a garden (Square Masséna) and a statue of the marshal.

The line of Boulevard Jean Jaurès is continued north- eastward by the Quai St. Sebastien and the Boulevard Risso. In the latter, No. 60 is the Natural History Museum. Boulevard Jean Jaurès runs along the northern side of the old town, which also can be entered opposite the eastern side of the Jardin Albert I and from the Quai des Etats-Unis.

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The Promenade des Anglais, is one of the finest esplanades in Europe, and the most charming part of Nice. It owes its name to having been in great measure constructed at the expense of the British at Nice in 1822, 3 and 4, in order to provide occupation for unemployed men.

The growth of the town has led to the continuation of the promenade westward, and one can now walk along the shore to the Nice Airport at the mouth of the Var, a distance of some 4 miles.

Just before the Second World War the Promenade was widened and there is now a double traffic way with dividing lines of palms and magnificent flowers, and a large pavement, beneath which are innumerable bathing establishments.

The Promenade des Anglais is the haunt of visitors and of those residents who have leisure.

Here they assemble in their thousands to bask in the sun to which it is exposed all day long, and to enjoy the superb prospect. Far away to the west is Cap d’Antibes, above which are the hillocks of Vallauris, Cannes and Grasse, and much more distant are the Estérels. Eastward are Cap Ferrat and its lighthouse and Mont Boron, of which mention has already been made. Northward along the curving high ground there will be seen the ruined Fort St. Alban, a great square building marking a good view-point.

A little farther along the curve is the dome of the Observatory on Mount Gros. (Visitors admitted on certain days.)

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The greater part of Nice is situated on the semicircular are of flat or gently rising land. In front is the Mediterranean.
Elsewhere are low ridges and shallow valleys backed by higher hills, which have behind them the Maritime Alps.

I am at Nice,” wrote an Englishman in December, 1782, where I am lodged in a charming Hotel situated in the country and at the coast, but halfway up a bill.” The peas are in flower; one finds in the gardens the rose, carnation, anemone, jasmine, as in summer. Oranges and lemons hang from thousands of trees, scattered about the open country or in enclosures around this magnificent Hotel in Nice.”

Where the gardens remain, the flowers and the yellow fruit may still be seen at Christmas-time, but the popularity of the site has led to the destruction of its rural charm. “One comes to Nice as a tourist for a week, or as a winter resident for some months and one remains for life,” wrote the poet Théodore de Bainville in 1860, and countless visitors have become residents.

In 1860 the population numbered 50,000, and twenty years later, 82,000. In 1901 it was 143,000. Now it is little, if any, less than 240,000.

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These constitute the principal charm of a holiday spent at Grasse and are both varied and numerous.

At 1 miles from the town, on the high road to Castellane, is Le Plateau Napoleon, a halting-place of Napoleon after landing from the Isle of Elba. It commands a delightful view. At 3 miles on the road to the Pont-du-Loup is the village of Châteauneuf de Grasse. In the Grand’ Rue, reached from the Place des Bosquets, are houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and also the Castelet, probably an ancient dependance of the castle.

Le Bar-sur-Loup, 5 miles towards the cast, is a village near the Gorges-du-Loup. Its Grand’ Rue is only just wide enough to permit the passage of a laden animal.  We have some different Hotels in this area, if you wont to be out from the sparkling Cote d’Azur and relax yourself.  Given the particular destination, 90% of this Hotels are familiar and not more of 3 Star, but  you can enjoy good local food and wine. In any case we have a 4 Star  Hotel: La Résidence du Moulin Tourrettes sur Loup.

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A great part of the modern quarter is around the château, once belonging to the Lords of Grasse and Bar.

The most famous member of the family was that Admiral de Grasse who at the battle of Saints had all his silver melted down and cast into bullets, but they did not save him from being taken prisoner by the English. After a victorious campaign a ball was given in his honour at Versailles. Only eleven years later the château at Le Bar was pillaged by the villagers who were supporting the Revolution.

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Its flowers and perfumes have made Grasse widely known by name. Its air is less exciting than that of places on the coast. Lofty hills behind it make it a more sheltered and less windy place than Cannes. All the year round Grasse has resident visitors, although it is not primarily a health or pleasure resort but is, as it has been for many centuries, a manufacturing and commercial town. Its principal productions are perfumes and scented soaps.

On an average the distilleries use yearly 2,000 tons of orange flowers, 1,500 tons of roses, 1,200 tons of jasmine flowers, 400 tons of violets, and an enormous quantity of other flowers both wild and cultivated.

Visitors are admitted into some of the distilleries and factories, but excursionists interested in the past will probably derive more satisfaction from the exploration of the old town, which in great part retains its medieval aspect.

It is assembled at the foot of the Tour-du-Puy, erected in the eleventh century on Roman foundations.

Upon it is a tablet commemorating a son of Grasse, Bellaud de la Bellaidière, a sixteenth-century Jekyll and Hyde, for he was both a poet and a robber. As the former he was honoured, as the latter he was hanged.

Adjoining the tower is the Hotel de Ville, formerly the bishop’s palace.

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