Districts of Nice

This article gathers popular and/or commercial names districts of Nice.

; General information on Nice:

See the article relating to of the geopolitical data
To summarize, however, the medieval historical center moved of 300 meters towards the west. One regards the Place Masséna as the current heart of the city and the axis south-north which leaves there like the main axis named Avenue Jean-Doctor (see with and article for the history of this artery). The districts will thus be located at the east or the west of this axis. One will speak about south only in rare cases; in the south, there are only the Mediterranean and the Baie of the Angels!

Official site of the town of Nice (plans, air sights, for example)

; General information on names of the districts:

Popular names did not evolve/move too much for their situation générale.
The origin comes from a Lieu-dit (fountain, river torrent, old establishment sometimes going back to the Celtic Ligurians which occupied the places) or from the name of a parish, of a convent. The borders are often superimposed; the real trade often prefers the close district, more crested than the popular name (example: Bas-Cimiez will be preferred with Saint-Lambert )…

Alphabetical list by district

District of the Bow

Situation: western Hills of the city (seen on the sea, the Walk of the English, the Airport). Name given following the establishment of a vast hospital complex which took the local term. In the south, the district Grey waxbill.

specific Buildings:

CHU of the Bow (on the hills)
Faculty of Arts (more close to the seaside)
Abbey of Roseland
Church Grey waxbill

Principal road axes:

Road of Saint-Anthony
Which occurred of Bornala (in small valley)

District of the Arenas

Situation: Extreme west of the city limited by the River VAr
New district made up of buildings out of glass of offices to a few hundred meters of the airport. It is separated by the district Saint-Augustin - very popular - whose old RN7 marks its limit. It is at present largest district of businesses of Nice.
specific Buildings:
Aéroport of Nice

Floral garden Phoenix, which laid out, was a time, larger greenhouse of Europe. Very pleasant place of walk and true visual enchantment. Presence of many rare and exotic species. page of the Town hall of Nice
Museum of Asian arts Page of the Town hall of Nice
the aéropôle itself (= the real complex in general of the district)
Hotel college Paul Augier private Pages of the college
Seat of the Banque Populaire of the Maritime Alps
EDHEC Nice

District of Baumettes

Situation: In the West of the Ville.
Center The origin of the name is in caves which were to be located under the colline.

specific Buildings:
Gloria Mansions
Museum of the Art schools of the town of Nice
Faculty of Droit

Road axes:
Street of France (double direction)
Boulevard François Grosso (double direction)
Which occurred of the Flowers (one way is/western)
Walk of the English
See Mathis (southern expressway, straps Saint Philippe or Magnan

internal Bonds:
Iconography of the palates, houses, villas, castles

external Bonds:

: Town of Nice: The district of Baumettes
: monquartier.net: Life of my district

Carabacel district

District Squared or California

Situation: Seaside. This term tends to disappear with the profit from California
Squared was a small village of fishermen, the last before the French border which was located in the middle of the Var before 1860.
Nowadays, a small port was built which still accommodates the Pointu S , these typical boats niçoises. Previously, the boats were simply drawn on the strike from rollers.
California comes from the Beautiful time (rush towards the west). However this district did not resemble to him; the canes and the marshes did not have anything a healthiness sought by wintering of the time. At the beginning XXe sicle, small villas and especially the hippodrome of Nice were there. " then was spoken; hippodrome of Californie" and of the airfield of California. The hippodrome did not resist the second war; the runways were unceasingly to increase their length. It was replaced after the second world war by the international airport, while the new hippodrome was installed with Cagnes-sur-Mer. More in the east, a Sainte-Hélène church was built and gave its name to a district which is now included there.
The old district Saint-Augustin is next to the new district of the Arenas, it owes its name with a église.
Road axes:
Est<=>West: Street of France and Walk of the English August 1st

District of Cimiez

Magnan district or of the Madeleine

Situation: Small valley south-north made up around its small valley.
It is a torrent, the Magnan, which gave its name to this district.
Madeleine is a local parish with her vault.
Formerly occupied by the cressonières and the kitchen gardens, located between sides precipice. It is now a boulevard occupied on both sides by the buildings.
One will be able to distinguish the Bridge-Magnan (the mouth part characterized by its many bridges of which that of the railway), the Madeleine itself with which the torrent is covered and lotti by the buildings, and the Madeleine Supérieure whose torrent still runs with open sky parcelled out by some warehouses and especially of the villas hung on the sides of the small valley.

District of the Musicians

District Pasteur or formerly Saint-Pons

Situation: N.E of Nice, is next to Cimiez and Carabacel
on Right Bank (western) of the Spangle.
Formerly vegetable gardens and orchards dominated by the abbey founded in VIIIe century by Charlemagne.
District of dwellings with rent more moderate than in the center town.
specific Buildings:
Abbey of Saint-Pons located in the enclosure of the CHU
CHU Pasteur

District of the Port

Districts of Gairaut and Rimiez

Situation: In the North of the center, on the hills.
The district accommodates splendid villas with unspoilable view on the City and the sea. Very green framework. Unless finding an use of guard-gardener, small purses to abstain from!
specific Buildings:
Treatment plant of water of Rimiez (she visits herself)
The Cascade of Gairaut (related to the water treatment), surmounted historical house of the guard of the channel of the Vésubie, Russian Isba style
Channel of Vésubie: its course is a must jogging in the district. Superb panorama on Nice and the Bay of the Angels.
Vault of Gairaut and its cemetery which accommodates the tombs of former famous mayors.

Districts of Ray, Chambrun and the Poets

Situation: Being next to Saint-Maurice on its Is and New Year's Eve on its West. Ray is popular quarters and middle-classes. The Poets, located on a hillock at the immediate South of the Stage of Ray, gather traditional houses niçoises beginning of the twentieth century within small streets with the famous names of authors. Chambrun finally is a residential district with large middle-class residences.
Axes and roadway system: strap Nice-North of has 8, place Fontaine- of-Temple, avenue of Ray; North-South axis composed of the Gorbella boulevards and Count-of-Falicon. Will accommodate soon line 1 of the tram.
specific Buildings:
Stage of Ray, historical stage of the O.G.C. Nice
Remainders of the field of the Count de Falicon: superb villa with blue glazed tiles
Buildings of the Northern Terminus of line 1 of the Tram (currently in construction)
Chambrun park, with the superb Temple of Diane of Greek style traditional
Museum Priory of the Old Home

District of Riquier

Saint-Etienne district

Situation: In the west of the Which occurred Jean-Doctor, the district Saint-Lambert borders it in the East, the district of the Musicians is in the South, beyond the railway.
The origin of the name is drawn from the parish. Formerly orchards and kitchen gardens. The district took its rise after fastening in France.
Sometimes degraded buildings cossus. Station of the South on its delimitation nord.
Axes:
Rue Vernier (double East-West direction) Boulevard Joseph-Garnier which makes the northern limit (double East-West direction). Avenue Malaussena à l' is (double North-South direction) Boulevard Gambetta à l' west (double North-South direction)

District Grey waxbill

Situation: Western of the city, at the seaside. The district of the Bow is in north, on the hills
specific Buildings:
Museum of Art naïf
Abbey of Roseland and more pointed article

District Saint-Lambert

Saint-Maurice district (+ Brancolar + Valrose)

Saint-Roch district

Situation

The North-East of the center, on left bank of the Spangle (= in the East).
Popular quarters. Large modern residential buildings built on old industrial and commercial buildings.
This district underwent a severe American bombardment in 1944 because of the proximity of the goods station.

Specific buildings

: Goods station the SNCF
: University pole Saint-Jean-with Angély
: Church Saint-Roch

Axes

North-South axes:

Railway line towards Italy (Nice Coni)

Road of Turin

Holy Boulevard Roch - data base Virgile Barel - data base Pierre Seymard (it is the same axis)

East-West
Axes:

Street Marshal-Vauban

Streets of the districts alphabetically

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Armed with the Alps (boulevard of): 06300, district Saint-Roch.

In the continuity of the boulevard of Riquier beyond the bridge of the way of railroad, it was called before Bischoffshein boulevard on this section. It continues by the Saint-Roch boulevard. The name points out the units which fought the Italian troops in 1940; niçois for a great part.

: n°20-22-24-26: the Large palace , “was inaugurated on April 15th, 2003 by Mister Jacques Peyrat senator mayor of the town of Nice and Mr François Bertière general president-director of Bouygues Immobilier”.

District of the Old city

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