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Suggested activities during your visit to Nice
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Nice touristic map
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Nice le grand tour

• Guided visit of the important sites of Nice in
  the grand tour for 20 Euros!
• For more information visit the site
  http//www.pariscityrama.com/french-provinces/nice

For assistance in booking please contact the
organisers at the conference
11 guided stops to visit the city - You take
the bus - You get down in the place you want to
visit - You get to know all the important places
at NICE
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La promenade des Anglais
The Promenade des Anglais ("Promenade of the
English") is a celebrated promenade along the
Baie des Anges, a bay of the Mediterranean, in
Nice. Before Nice was urbanized, the coastline at
Nice was just bordered by a deserted stretch of
beach covered with large pebbles. The first
houses were located on higher ground well away
from the sea. Starting in the second half of the
18th century, many wealthy English people took to
spending the winter in Nice, enjoying the
panorama along the coast. When a particularly
harsh winter up north brought an influx of
beggars to Nice, some of the rich Englishmen
proposed a useful project for them the
construction of a walkway (chemin de promenade)
along the sea. The city of Nice, intrigued by the
prospect of a pleasant promenade, greatly
increased the scope of the work. The Promenade
was first called the Camin dei Anglès (the
English Way) by the Niçois in their native
dialect Nissart. After the annexation of Nice by
France in 1860 it was rechristened La Promenade
des Anglais, replacing the former Nissart name
with its French translation.
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The old Nice and the Castel Hill

• The sizable hill that separates Old Town Nice
  from the Port of Nice is known as Castle Hill.
• Get to the Castle Hill (La Colline du Chateau) to
  enjoy a panoramic view of the Mediterranean and
  the city.
  
• Just east of the Le Cours Saleya and Vieux Nice
  is a staircase you can climb for free, or you can
  use the lift for 0.55 Euros.

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Russian Orthodox cathedral
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice (Cathédrale
Orthodoxe Russe Saint-Nicolas de Nice) is a
Russian Orthodox cathedral, and a national
monument of France, located in the city of Nice.
Opened in 1912, thanks to the generosity of Tsar
Nicholas II, it is the largest Russian Orthodox
cathedral outside Russia. There is currently an
ownership dispute over the property. The parish,
which belongs to an overseas Russian Orthodox
jurisdiction under the authority of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate, opposes a claim on the
property by the Patriarchate of Moscow, which has
the backing of the Russian government(citation
needed). The dispute seemingly stems from a
conflict between old Russian nobility who have
long since settled in Nice and newly arrived
Russians. A subjective account of the dispute,
favoring the current administration, can be read
in the following text translated from the French,
which formed the bulk of this entry prior to edit
From a religious point of view, this claim is
considered by the local noble Russian community
as unlawful, since the cathedral belongs to the
Orthodox Church of Constantinople and therefore
has nothing to do with the Church of Moscow. They
also underline that a religious matter should not
be dealt with by the Russian state. What is more,
this claim from Russian authorities is also
linked to the arrival of newly emigrated wealthy
Russians, who belong to the business Russian
classes or even to the mafia. The old noble
Russians who have lived in Nice for decades are
unwilling to see they cathedral under the
authority of a corrupt government and "invaded"
by Russians whose wealth is openly known to be
from illegal activities. They also noticed that
the behavior of these newcomers is far from what
it should be from truly religious people
indecent clothes in a very religious building, a
clear tendency to show off how rich they are, a
mere respct of religious dogma but no real
Christian values underneath. There has also been
a recent case of false accusation against the
previous archbishop of the cathedral, led by
newly come Russians."