Nice Airport Transfers

Nice (in French: Nice pronounced /nis/; in Occitan: Niça, in Italian: Nice) is a city french located in the department of Maritime Alps, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

It is one of the tourist centers Blue Coast, by the sea Mediterranean, close to the border with Italy (30 km) and Monaco (20 km), being in the foothills of the Alps, east of the river Var. Nice is located 960 km from Paris, 230 km from Marseille, the regional capital, 195 km from Genoa and 215 km of Turin. It is the largest city on the Côte d'Azur, spread over Hyeres to Chin. Its spas and beaches attract high-income tourism, just as its walks, museums, nightlife and magnificent views of the sea constitute an attraction for tourism. Due to its urban area, it is also the seventh city in France.

Nice, historical capital of County of Nice, was linked to Italy until its French invasion and annexation in 1860. A part of its population retains the Nice dialect, a variety of the language Ligurian strongly influenced by occitan language after 1860. Variants of Ligurian are spoken in areas near the city, including monegasque and that of the valley of Rust. It is very likely that in the Middle Ages he Ligurian outside the vehicular language from the city.

The story of Nice It is essentially characterized by two elements. Because it is mainly a border city and controls the southern passage of the Alps. He was successively part of Liguria, Savoy, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia and France. It is a city whose expansion has accelerated sharply in the 20th century, especially due to the development of tourism. These two characteristics have given rise to important consequences in social, political, economic, cultural, and even urban planning.