Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera
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How it came to be
Nice lies on the Mediterranean at the foot of the Alps, close to the Italian border. It began as the Greek town of Nikaia, and from 1388 it placed itself under the protection of the Counts of Savoy. From the mid-18th century growing numbers of aristocratic and well-off families, mostly British, began to spend their winters there.
In 1824 these winter visitors laid a modest path along the shore, paid for by the Reverend Lewis Way and members of the Anglican congregation; locals called it the English Way. In 1832, while Nice belonged to the Kingdom of Sardinia, the town set up the Consiglio d'Ornato, which drew up a street plan and building rules meant to attract foreigners. The path became the Promenade des Anglais.
Under the Treaty of Turin of 1860 Nice was ceded to France, and once the railway reached it, winter visitors arrived from every country. New districts grew beyond the medieval old town, and the visitors' tastes, together with the wish to make the most of the climate and the coast, produced their eclectic architecture. Nice was inscribed in 2021 as a winter resort town.
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