Nice Audio Guided Walking Tour 2h50 and 27 Audio Comments

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Itinerary

1. This is the real Rising Star of Nice, the famous English promenade. Along the Bay of Angels with its infinite blue, the Prom’ pour les intimates, invites to contemplative walk.

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2. The pretty little blue church you see is the Church of Saint James the Major, more commonly called the Church of Gesù. Its story begins with that of a wealthy merchant from Nice, who decides to give a large sum of money to the Jesuits of Nice to found a college.

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3. At the corner of Rue de la Barillerie and Rue de la Poissonnerie, you can admire the only witness to the ancient tradition of painted houses. It was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to carve Bible-inspired bas reliefs on his house.

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4. You are now on the Saleya course, created at the beginning of the 18th century on the space vacated by the now useless perimeter wall.

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5. In the extension of the Saleya course, you can see the small chapel of Mercy, called black penitents. It is considered the most beautiful baroque chapel in Nice.

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6. You arrive at the Place de Justice, dominated by the imposing palace in question, built on the site of the former Dominican convent in 1892.

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7. You don’t realize where you are, but this beautiful walk of the Paillon, seen from the sky, looks like a huge green carpet rolled out across the city.

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8. Beneath this sublime and mesmerizing square with its checkered floor, flows the Butterfly that had been buried years ago for reasons of health.

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9. The Albert 1st Garden, created in 1852, is one of the oldest public gardens in Nice. The very first was born in 1828, on the castle hill.

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10. This street is called the Rue de France, because it was the one that led to the border before Nice was attached to France. We are entering a new Nice, here no cobblestone streets or orange Italian facades!

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11. The memorial you see now is the Centennial Monument. Look at the foot of the pyramid, the two women represented.

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12. This imposing steel sculpture was commissioned by the city’s mayor to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the annexation of Nice to France. It was installed in 2010, and each of its lines represents the 9 valleys that formed the county of Nice, when it was a state of Savoy.

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Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Know before you go

How it compares in Nice

• Its from-price is 98% below the median of the 195 city tours we list in Nice.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Nice

Nice is the sunny capital of the French Riviera, where a palm-lined promenade curves along a blue bay and a pastel old town buzzes with markets.

The Promenade des Anglais follows the Baie des Anges for kilometres, with pebble beaches and the turquoise sea on one side and grand hotels on the other. Vieux Nice, the old town, is a maze of narrow lanes, Baroque churches and ochre façades, and the Cours Saleya hosts a flower and produce market.

Top-ranked sights in Nice: Promenade des Anglais, Eze, Nice Old Town (Vieux Nice).

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