The Bay of Angels

When you walk to 'La Colline du Chateau' and you go to the cascade, you will have on top of it a beautiful view over the Bay of Angels and the old town.


The Bay of Angels (Baie des Anges) has surprisingly nothing to do with angels of heaven who made this paradise, but it were the angels from the deep, the angel sharks from the sea that used to live here until the 19th century that gave their name to the bay of Nice. These angel sharks -Squatina angelus- had 2 fins that looked like 2 angel wings for the Mediterranean fisherman. Nowadays they have been disappeared completely.

Boats on the Bay of Angels

This cruise ship is coming from the harbour of Nice. You will find here also a ferry to Corsica but also small and big yachts of the happy few.

One of them, the 85 metres Ocean Breeze, that belonged to the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is awaiting a buyer in the port of Nice, with an asking price of euro 23.5 million.

This is the ferry to Corsica, a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, that can be reached in 3-4 hours by this ferry. You will see this yellow boat several times passing by every day.


This is a very exclusive yacht from a Russian billionaire visiting Nice. I'm sorry I couldn't get closer for a better view.