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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
- 350 000 inhabitants (50 % less than 40 years old)
- 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 4 million visitors per year
- 2nd airport in France, with more than 10 million passengers a year, connecting to 100 destinations in 29 countries
- Top cruising port in France, 2nd Congress and Convention City in France with Acropolis voted several times Best Convention Centre in Europe;
- 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 170 hotels and some 10.000 rooms:
- 3 hotels ****Luxury (442 rooms)
- 20 hotels **** (2 800 rooms)
- 60 hotels *** (3 321 rooms)
- 63 hotels ** (2 295 rooms)
- 16 hotels * (364 rooms)
- 15 tourism residences
(731 apartments and 2.141 beds).
Source: CRT Riviera Côte d'Azur -Observatoire du Tourisme, research department