Palm trees on the

Palm trees on the promenadePlace Rossetti dates to the 16th centuryinfluenced by Franco-Italian Renaissance style.Queen Victoria loved Nice, where she wouldoften holiday in the winter months, meeting upwith other European royals – her cousin KingLeopold of Belgium, for instance, and WilhelmII, Emperor of Germany and her grandson. Itbecame more of a holiday destination thana place to convalesce. The Queen liked totravel in disguise, calling herself Countess ofBalmoral, but she fooled no one. For a start,she travelled with 100 staff and, upon arrival,booked 80 rooms at the Hotel Regina. It’s stillthere, and glorious, though now it’s a privateapartment block. There’s also a sweet shopin Nice which looks just like it did when theQueen went there for her bonbons.A sweet shop fit for a queenA Taste of Provence. © Exquisite, all-inclusive, small group toursto Provence and beyond“If you have everconsidered culinarytourism, Goût et Voyagewill be the trip of yourdreams. Excellenceat every turn!”DS, NYwww.goutetvoyage.comNice has UNESCO-listed heritage statusthanks to its historic winter tourism status.The early British visitors to Nice were not sofond of the old town - it didn’t suit their refinedtastes, so they developed their own playgroundaround the Cours Saleya square which hosts amarvellous market. They created the 4.3 milelong Promenade des Anglais around the Baiedes Anges (the Bay of Angels, so called as alocal legend claims that angels guided Adamand Eve to the bay after they were exiledfrom Eden) paid for with money raised by theAnglican church of Nice and completed in1824. And they built palaces and mansions.10 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 11