Vieux Nice

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What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Vieux Nice and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Castle Hill (Colline du Château)5 min walk378 m
• Place Masséna5 min walk440 m
• Le Port & the quays10 min walk792 m
• A swim in the Baie des Anges11 min walk893 m
• Promenade des Anglais (beach)16 min walk1.3 km
• The Promenade des Anglais16 min walk1.3 km
• Musée Marc Chagall17 min walk1.4 km
• St Nicholas Russian Cathedral18 min walk1.5 km
• Musée Matisse8 min taxi2.5 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 2.Wandering Vieux Nice — The old town is the best of Nice — narrow ochre lanes hung with washing, baroque churches, gelato and pastis, and a different tiny square every turn. More Italian than French, and made for getting happily lost before dinner.
• 3.The Cours Saleya market — The old town's great market square — flowers and Provençal produce most mornings, antiques on Mondays, and a fringe of cafés for the ritual coffee. Come early for the colour, and buy socca or a slice of pissaladière to eat on the hoof.
• 5.Socca off the griddle — Nice on a plate — a thin chickpea-flour pancake baked in a copper pan, scraped up, cracked with black pepper and eaten hot with your fingers. A euro or two at a market stall or an old-town hole in the wall. Get it fresh or not at all.
• 12.A night out in Vieux Nice — The old town after dark is where the city drinks — tiny wine bars, rooftop terraces and packed lanes around Place Rossetti, all within a stumble of each other. Start with a pastis, follow the noise, and let the night find its own shape.
• 14.Salade niçoise & pan-bagnat — The city's other great export — a real salade niçoise (no potato, no cooked veg, the locals will tell you), or its portable cousin, the pan-bagnat, the same thing crammed into an olive-oil-soaked bun. Lunch, sorted, for a few euros.