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As soon as you leave the seafront to climb one of Nice's hills (the "Jardin du Château" or Castle Gardens above the Port, Mont-Boron surveying the Cap de Nice, or the neighbourhood known as Cimiez), you come across beautiful views in which the light changes frequently depending on the time of day. Lastly, Place Massena and the neighbouring streets comprise the main shopping area in Nice.

The prize at the heart of an eternal struggle between France and Italy, Nice (incentive cote azur) only became part of France in 1860. Its history, however, goes back to the dawn of time. The excavations of Terra Amata prove that the region was inhabited in prehistoric times, though it was the Greeks who really laid the foundations of the town they called "Nikaoa".

A little later on, as everywhere else in the Mediterranean, the Romans took over, preferring to develop the neighbourhood of Cemenelum (today known as Cimiez) rather than the seafront which proved too hard to defend.

The fall of the Roman Empire was followed by several centuries of invasions by the Barbarians, Saracens and pirates, which made Nice terribly afraid of anyone and anything that arrived from the sea. In the 11th century, Nice from the incentive cote azur was attached to the County of Provence, itself annexed in the 14th century to the Kingdom of Savoy. This meant that Nice remained Italian for a full five centuries, until the Treaty of Turin was signed by Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II.

Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, and all of Europe's aristocrats at the time, came for regular stays in the region. It was then that Nice took off, already basing its development on tourism and the brand new railway that connected it to the rest of France as early as 1862. Today, Nice is the fifth biggest town in France.

Villefranche-sur-Mer (another town of the incentive cote azur) : The Bay of Villefranche stretches from Cap Ferrat to Mount Boron... one of the most beautiful bays in the world... Founded at the start of the 14th century, Villefranche was entrusted with many trade contracts. Villefranche citadel, built at the end of the 16th century, was occupied by the army from then until 1965. The town council became the new owner of the citadel and restored it in 1981. It now houses the town hall and the conference centre.

The Old Town of Villefranche is the perfect place to relax and it has succeeded in preserving its antique charm: colourful houses, narrow streets and steep staircases leading down to the harbour. Picturesque footpaths lead up to Mount Boron with fantastic views of the incentive cote azur along the way.