Nice City of my life. Music: La vie en rose

I just made this video. It reflects my love for the most beautiful sea-front city in the world with its most beautiful sea-side avenue in the world: the Promenade des Anglais! This video also contains some views taken from the terrace of my apartment on the Promenade and there are some views taken from the beach in front of the apartment. The apartment is available for holiday rentals and can be booked online at the website: www.NicePromenadeApartments.net . I hope you'll enjoy watching.

Here's the video link to YouTube: Nice France Mediterranean sea-front metropole

Here's the link to the Playlist Nice France Queen of the riviera.

The Promenade in the Belle Epoque

This painting by Angelo Garino, dated 1922, shows us how the Promenade looked once upon a time. It can be seen in the Massena Museum. On the left you can see the Ruhl hotel, which was located next to the Gardens of Albert 1er.

Nowadays the Ruhl hotel is replaced by a building from the seventies which houses the Casino Ruhl and the 4 star Meridien hotel.


On the right you can see the Jetée Promenade in Nice which was dismantled by the Germans during World War 2. This was the original place for the casino. It was built with a large steel construction (also designed by Gustav Eiffel) in the sea. To make the story short, due to a fire they had to built it 2 times and opened it in 1891. The original project was the brain child of the Marquis d’Espouy de Saint-Paul who wanted Nice to have a replica of London’s Cristal Palace on the Promenade des Anglais.

This is one of the many advertising posters to attract visitors to Nice. The Promenade des Anglais has always been the place to be seen, legendary for its palaces and beautiful villas where the rich invited each other for a party and marriages were born. In future posts I will write more about the palaces and villas on the Promenade.

Cars on the Prom

On the Promenade you often find beautiful cars. Come to the Promenade des Anglais and join the rich and famous in one of their favourite playgrounds. If you are lucky, you might even catch a glimpse of a few celebrities passing through.


On the 26th of August 2008 Madonna performed in Nice and stepped out this car to the podium. She stayed of course in the world famous Negresco Hotel on the Promenade.


Car spotting from the terrace from www.NicePromenadeApartments.net: Rolls Royce...


...and Ferrari

Webcam on the Promenade

Click here and you wil see the webcam on the Promenade des Anglais. On the lower left you can see the actual weather and temperature, which is always even better than forecasted! At this moment, the temperature is 16,9 degrees Celcius with a large blue sky. Not bad for the middle of January I would think (while it is freezing in large parts of Europe now)!
On this picture I have marked our apartment which we rent on our website.

The Promenade des Anglais - a brief summary

Not later than in 1823 the English people who were very attracted to Nice’s climate and beauty, started to build the ultra famous Promenade, that stretches 7 km around the Bay of Angels, which became known in 1844 to the world as the Promenade des Anglais (the Promenade of the English). They built many luxury palaces and hotels, all its glamour is still present today. Nice is a busy, bustling city with something for everyone from the bright lights of the city shops, bars, restaurants and clubs to the lure of the azure blue water and the possibilities it offers of diving, swimming, parasailing, boating and sunbathing, as well as to the activities of golfing, walking, cycling, sightseeing both in Nice and inland.
Nice is the Queen of the Riviera and the Promenade des Anglais is the only place to be!!