Nice Travel: France
Nice (pronounced [ni:s] as in “niece”; Italian Nizza, Provenal Nia or Nissa) is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Cannes and Monaco. The city is a major tourist center and a leading resort on the French Riviera – Cte d’Azur.
History of Nice
Nice (Nicaea) was founded about two thousand years ago by the Greeks of Marseille and received the name of ?????? (“Nikaia”) in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the goddess of victory). It soon became one of the busiest trading stations on the Ligurian coast; but as a city it had an important rival in the town of Cemenelum, which continued to exist till the time of the Lombard invasions, and has left its ruins at Cimiez, which is now a quarter of Nice.
In the 7th century Nice joined the Genoese league formed by the towns of Liguria. In 729 it repulsed the Saracens; but in 859 and 880 they pillaged and burned it, and for the most of the 10th century remained masters of the surrounding country.
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Cannes Travel: France
Cannes ("Canas" in Provençal) (pronounced /kan/) is a city and commune in southern France, located on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes département. Population of the city (commune) of Cannes at the 1999 census was 67,304 inhabitants (69,700 inhabitants as of February 2004 estimates). Cannes is part of the Nice metropolitan area (aire urbaine) whose total population was 933,080 inhabitants at the 1999 census.
History of Cannes
From the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, Cannes was a small agricultural and fishing village. Beginning in the 1830s, foreign and French aristocrats built vacation homes in the area,
Tourcoing Travel: France
ourcoing is a city and commune of northern France, in the Nord département, located near the cities of Lille and Roubaix and the Belgian border. Population (1999): 94,204.
Roubaix Travel: France
Roubaix is a city of northern France, in the Nord département, located near the cities of Lille and Tourcoing and the Belgian border. Population (1999): 96,984.
Parc is a fine product of a late twentieth century landscape design competition. Alain Provost and Gilles clement explained their design as having four themes with an overall transition from urban to rural. A white Garden and a Black Garden are set into the urban fabric and lead on to the park's central feature-a vast rectangular lawn sliced through by a digonal path. The River Seine flows at the far end. Two glasshouse pavillions, separated by a pavement of dancing fountains, stand at the Urban end of the lawn. One flank of the lawn is bounded by a monumental canal
Many years ago there was a 1:1 reproduction of one of the famous caves of Lascaux (France), which cannot be visited, at the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum. Lascaux apparently has incredible reproductions of cave paintings.
Contact Address
Grote de Lascaux, Semitour Perigord,
25 rue du President Wilson,
BP 1024, 24001 Periguex Cedex,
France
Ph. : (05) 5335 5010, Fax : (05) 5306 3094
Opening Dates and times
Sept-Jun : Tues-sun : 09.30-18.30 pm
July-Aug : Daily : 09.00-20.00 pm
Entrace Fees are FFr50 for adults, FFr25 for child bet 6-12 yr and Free for child under 6.
