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The Promenade des Anglais at sunset, from the Colline du Château. The Promenade des Anglais, next to the beach The beachfront. The Promenade des Anglais (French pronunciation: [pʁɔm.nad de.z‿ɑ̃ɡlɛ]; Niçard: Camin dei Anglés; meaning "Walkway of the English") is a promenade along the Mediterranean coast of Nice, France.
It has been historically one of the most fashionable streets in Saint Petersburg, and in the 19th century was called by the French term, Promenade des Anglais. It was from the English Embankment that at 2 am on October 25, 1917, the gunshot from the Aurora sent the signal to storm the Winter Palace during Russian Revolution. [1]
During the second half of the 20th century, the coastline of the Baie des Anges was extensively redeveloped with the aim of promoting tourism in Alpes-Maritimes. This included rapid development of transport infrastructures like seaside roads, train lines from Marseille-Saint-Charles to Ventimiglia , the luxury train Le Train Bleu , and the Nice ...
Promenade des Anglais View of the old town A sunset over the Promenade des Anglais. The Promenade des Anglais ("Walkway of the English") is a promenade along the Baie des Anges ("Bay of the Angels"), which is a bay of the Mediterranean in Nice. Before Nice was urbanised, the coastline at Nice was just bordered by a deserted stretch of shingle ...
The hotel as seen from the Promenade des Anglais. The Hotel Negresco is a hotel and site of the restaurant Le Chantecler, located on the Promenade des Anglais [1] on the Baie des Anges in Nice, France. It was named after Henri Negresco (1868–1920), who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. [2]
An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk. The historical definition of esplanade was a large, open, level area outside fortress or city walls to provide clear fields of fire for the fortress's guns.
Neuf lignes obliques (English: Nine Oblique Lines) is a steel monument on the Promenade des Anglais, by French artist Bernar Venet. It was commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1860 annexation of the County of Nice by France. [1] The sculpture is made of nine steel beams, 30 metres long, which meet at their top.
The Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée is a nine-floor luxury casino hotel complex located on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.It was built in 1929 by architects Charles and Marcel Dalmas, and partly rebuilt and modernized in 1990, a year after two of its facades were classified as historical monuments.