What to see and do in Nice, France
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK).Think of Nice and hot, languid summers spent lounging on a beach are likely to spring to mind — along with luxury yachts, five-star hotels and elegant movie stars. But come to this eastern corner of the Côte d’Azur outside the summer months, and gone is the heat, ushered out by the salty breeze, along with the cosmopolitan crowds that typically fill the streets of the old town.Not long ago, the off season was considered the best time to go. Long before the city’s fame as a summer destination, it thrived as a villégiature d’hiver (winter resort), offering aristocratic and upper-class families a chance to escape the bitter, gloomy winters of northern Europe and bask in its mild, coastal Mediterranean climate. The European elites...
