VISIT NICE






Museum of Modern Art
Nice verdoyante avec ses nombreux parcs, ses nombreuses places
toutes majestueuses...La Place Massena est à 10 mm à pied de la Villa Rima et la Place Garibaldi... à 5 mm avec tout de suite la vieille ville qui commence!!
Place Garibaldi




Opera plage
port of Nice


old city



Arènes de Cimiez
Port of Nice
Walking on the promenade des Anglais 
Ballade surla colline du château / hill of the castle 
Cimiez, Monastere, Regina, Arènes
Eglise Russe
Old city
Parc Phoenix


And if it is raining.....

- take a small lunch in  Serain Cappa on place Garibaldi, Deli Bo on rue Bonaparte, Seizieme de Soupir rue de Longchamps

- take a tea or a drink in the bar of nice hotels like  Negresco 
- go to the big library (free) Nucera, just near the Museum of Modern Art , 5 min walk from Villa Rima
Go to bookshops Jean Jaurès (2 rue centrale) or Massena(55 rue Gioffredo  or go to FNAC  (44 avenue Jean Medecin)
- Visit a museum
Chagall, Matisse, MAMAC, Musée Massena Institut de la Photographie, musée d'Art Naïf,  Musée des Beaux Arts , take for that the french riviera pass to get free entrance
- go in the quartier des Antiquaires  (100 antiquarian between Port and place Garibaldi,and between rue Ségurane and rue A Gautier - 
- go to Art galeries
Galerie Eva Vautier ,  rue Vernier
Galerie Maud Barral on the port,
galerie Ferrero rue du Congrès.

- visit wunderful closed places in Nice area
Villa Ephrussi de Rotschild in  St Jean Cap Ferrat, by nice weather take the little sea way chemin côtier de St Hospice juste near with its  40-45mn walk
Villa 
- greek Villa Kerylos , rue gustave effeil in Baulieu sur mer
Go to Monacoand visit the Aquarium,  the Palais Princier, or go to Monte Carlo , have a look in the opera or in the casino or take a tea in the hôtel de Paris.
>>> Aller à Saint Paul de Vence et visiter la Fondation Maeght et parcourir le village.

- go to the cinematheque, just near the villa  3, esplanade Kennedy - NICE Tél : 04 92 04 06 66 programmes

go to the Bowling (at 5 min walk, you can eat there)
5 Esplanade Kennedy, Acropolis, Nice

IF YOU WANT TO WALK IN THE NATURE

make a 2 hours Ballade in Canal de Gairaut

take your car or the tram (stop stade du Ray +15mn walk) or the bus 63 (Borriglione) or 25 (Vauban-Falicon) , stop first at "cascade de gairaut, you will have a wunderful view on the city and on the sea ; then take the chemin de Gairaut , the begining of the way of Gairaut (3km go and back) 


Make a 1 hour (3,5 km) ballade on the Sentier côtier in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat : wunderful walk, very easy to do. During the sommer, you can stop at the beaches and why not eat at the restaurant La Paloma just on the beach (good but a little bit expensive) 
You can start at  Port Saint Jean ( access with bus 81 to take at the port of Nice). 
From Port Saint Jean, take the street to the south , by the hôtel la Voile d'Or, you then come on the square de la Paix ( look at the fontain with the word COEXIST) . The way starts from there.

You can continue untill Villefranche and visit the city and the citadelle,
more details on the guide randoygene 


Make a 3 hours walk on the sentier côtier of Villefranches sur mer 

From the port of Nice to Villefranche sur Mer.
along the le terminal of ferrys, the club nautique, the restaurant/bar "La Réserve" and at the square F Raynaud, take the stairs for the sentier côtier and walk about 1km untill Palais Maeterlink. Then you have to go upstairs untill supermarché Carrefour Market and take boulevard Maeterlink, for 800m.
After 800 m you take the way at the right to go to the " pointe des sans culottes".
After  20 mn walk along the sea , you enter Villefranche and the le port de la Darse.
You can take a drink or a lunch at the restaurant "la Baleine Joyeuse", just near the boats
Then you continue along the sea, go under the citadelle . Then you can visit the old city of Villefranches and don't forget the little chapelle decorated by Jean Cocteau.

You can come back to Nice with the bus 100 (every  15mn, stop at promenade des arts and walk 5 min to the villa rima) 

Make a big walk to the Mont Boron and Fort du  Mont Alban (4 hours)
From the boulevard de Materlink, at the crossing with the supermarkt Carrefour market , you can also  make a little walk to Mont Boron, or a big one  to Fort Mont Alban, you will see the most wunderful views on the sea