The suggestion of this week -to continue the idea launched through Berlin- goes to France. For our home exchange why don’t we plan a trip to Nice?

Here you find some information and suggestions about this city.

Nice, once colonized by Greeks, is today a compulsory stop for those who visit the South of France and the Côte d’Azur: its economy is mainly based on tourism. Some additional information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice).

Official language: French

Currency: Euro

To visit: Nice is home to an interesting variety of historic buildings, museums, and appealing sightseeing opportunities, but a little out of the ordinary, there’s the marchè aux fleurs (the flowers market). The ‘marchè aux fleurs’ is one of the most famous, both for its size  and its amazing variety of flowers.

Marchè aux fleurs,Nice

Some interesting museums we’d like to suggest anyway are:

1. Musée des Arts Asiatiques
2. Musée des Beaux-Arts
3. Musée Matisse
4. Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall
5. Musée Massena (Massena Art & History Museum)

Typical dishes:

• the pistou soup (soup with vegetables and beans);
• the bouillabaisse, (a kind of seafood chowder);
• the salade nicoise (a typical mixed salad);
  
• the ratatouille, (a vegetable stew);
• the pissaladière (a type of stuffed pizza);
• the daube de boeuf (beef, mutton and lamb stew, cooked in red wine);
• la tarte au citron (a lemon cream tart).

If you have any suggestions about special places to visit, info and stories about Nice, please send them to us!

Au revoir! :)