Nice, "resort town", is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
View over the city of Nice, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
© Pricilia Renou Tallon / City of Nice
Text by: Sébastien Jédor Follow
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The city of Nice, in the south-east of France, has just been classified on the list of World Heritage of Humanity by Unesco.
The application was launched 7 years ago.
It is a form of tourism and architecture which is recognized as exceptional by the United Nations Cultural Organization.
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With the classification of Nice, Unesco specifically inscribes “
the winter resort town of Riviera
” as a world heritage site.
It is a set of 522 hectares bathed by the sun, at the foot of the mountains and on the bluish shore of the Mediterranean… A landscape, town-planning and architectural heritage, which is the fruit of European history.
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New inscription on the #World Heritage List of @ UNESCO: Nice, the city of the Riviera winter resort, in France 🇫🇷.
Well done!
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- UNESCO in French (@UNESCO_fr) July 27, 2021
One of the first tourist towns
From 1760, on a coast considered hitherto inhospitable, Nice began to welcome foreign residents who had not yet been named… Tourists.
They are attracted by an always mild climate, the proximity of the sea and the mountains, exotic vegetation ...
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Nice became the “
winter capital
” of crowned heads and wealthy Europeans.
150,000 vacationing residents in 1900: an unparalleled figure at the time!
First the English, who will have the right to their Promenade, then the Russians, the Austro-Hungarians, later the Americans.
They all built colorful palaces, villas with loggias and arched windows: well-being and exoticism.
Orthodox churches are also emerging from the earth.
Dufy, Chagall, Matisse - among others - will immortalize on the web, this little Nice paradise.
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