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Located in Southern Europe at the south eastern extremity of France, Nice is a privileged crossroads between the Alps, Provence, Corsica and Italy. The city occupies an exceptional natural site in the heart of the French Riviera. It stretches over a coastal plain open southward nto the Mediterranean and bounded from East to West by a succession of wooded hills. In the background, rise the first peaks of the Alpine foothills, some reaching over 9000 ft above sea level, only 31 miles (from the coast) as the crow flies…
NICE IN FIGURES
NICE IN FIGURES
- 5th largest city in France
- 345 892 inhabitants
- 7 192 hectares
- 5 miles of beaches
- 300 ha of parks and gardens
- 150 bassins et fontaines
KEY FIGURES FOR TOURISM
- 2nd largest centre for tourism in France
- over 3.2 million visitors in 1999
- 2nd airport in France, with more than 8,6 million passengers a year, connecting to 80 destinations in 28 countries
- Top cruising port in France, 193 780 passengers used the Port of Nice-Villefranche in 1999 including 55.116 cruise passengers for Nice alone ;
- 1.4 million visitors arrived by train in 1999
- 2nd Congress and Convention City in France with Acropolis voted several times Best Convention Centre in Europe; in 1999, 112.000 delegates attended professional events and an overall total of 495.000 to all events.
- 19 museums and galleries (the largest number after Paris)
- 2nd largest hotel facilities in France, making up a third of the total hotel capacity of the French Riviera, with 190 hotels and some 10.000 rooms:
- 21 hotels **** (2.999 rooms)
- 57 hotels *** (3.096 rooms)
- 81 hotels ** (3.101 rooms)
- 31 hotels * ( 842 rooms)
- 15 tourism residences
(731 apartments and 2.141 beds).
Source: CRT Riviera Côte d'Azur -Observatoire du Tourisme, research department