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Brimming with brilliant features and beautiful photos - bursting with inspiring, entertaining and informative guides from sun-kissed, pickled-in-the-past villages and dazzling historic cities, and through French history, heritage and culture from iconic cakes to the most spectacular chateaux. Discover Paris, Provence, Normandy, and lesser known treasures in Burgundy, southern France, the Loire Valley, and many more dazzling destinations. Plus mouth-watering recipes, history, culture, heritage and much, much more. Bringing France to you - wherever you are.

A taste of NICE Culture

A taste of NICE Culture & cuisine on D’AZUR2 the colourful CÔTE Nice is one of France’s most visited cities, and it’s easy to see why, says Janine Marsh. With its sun-kissed Bay of Angels lapped by the lapis lazuli coloured Mediterranean sea, palm trees swaying gently in the warm breeze, cobbled streets of the old town lined with colourful old buildings, magnificent markets, multiple museums, a castle atop a hill, and the mouth-watering local cuisine. Nissa La Bella, as the locals call it (Nice the Beautiful), has oodles of charm. A little bit of history Visit Nice today, and it’s hard to remember that around 100 years ago, Nice was a small fishing village. In the surrounding hills, farmers grew vegetables, the sort that could endure the hot summer sun. Going back even further, Nice took its name from Greek settlers who arrived around 350 BC and called it Nikaia after the Greek Goddess of victory, Nike. Long before that, tribes settled here as far back as 400,000 BC. Nice harbour The Romans were here too - they knew a good thing when they saw it, and settled the area we know today as Cimiez, where remains of a Roman baths complex can be seen. Nice swung between French and Italian rule for centuries - finally becoming French in 1861 - but, so close to Italy, the dolce vita is firmly entrenched in its DNA - combined with French joie de vivre - it’s a heady mix! In the mid-18th century, the British elite, on their Grand Tours (similar to a gap year), found it to be an ideal winter sun destination. When a prominent writer and doctor named Tobias Smollett wrote about the area’s warm winters and fresh air, which was beneficial to health, Nice became extremely popular and was established as the first winter resort area in the world. When Queen Victoria visited, that was it - the equivalent of a travel influencer of 200 years ago, she inspired anyone who was anyone to go and allegedly claimed on her deathbed, “Oh, if only I were at Nice, I should recover.” 8 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 9

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