Nice got added to UNESCO world heritage list

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City of Nice got officially added to UNESCO world heritage list and the organization proclaimed the French city as “Winter resort town of the Riviera”. It has joined the list of more than 40 French world heritage sites, along with banks of the river Seine in Paris, the Amiens cathedral, the Mont Saint Michel and stretches of the Loire valley.

Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi stated: “The history of Nice, which is at the same time deeply rooted and open, Mediterranean and Alpine, European and cosmopolitan, has produced an architecture and a landscape that are unique, a model for many other cities in the world”.

Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 million on an area of 744 km2. Located in the French Riviera, on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region after Marseille.

Nice is approximately 13 kilometres from the principality of Monaco and 30 kilometres from the French-Italian border.

 

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