Pont Vieux Nice Cote d'Azur: holiday apartment sunny balcony, aircon & WiFi

Blissfully removed from the traffic noise of other parts of town and with its southern border flanking the beach, this ancient pedestrianised district benefits from major public investment and services to protect its architectural heritage and preserve its unique Franco-Italian atmosphere and traditions.

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The apartment is in the heart of baroque Vieux Nice, two minutes' walk to the beach & Cours Saleya: public transport nearby
Blissfully removed from the traffic noise of other parts of town and with its southern border flanking the beach, this ancient pedestrianised district benefits from major public investment and services to protect its architectural heritage and preserve its unique Franco-Italian atmosphere and traditions.

Pont Vieux Nice holiday studio apartment

vacation rentals in Nice - capital of the Côte d'Azur

A complex heritage: Ancient Greece and Rome, Italian Piedmont and Liguria and the Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily have all contributed their characteristics to the unique Niçois identity. Amid the vibrant walls and colourful shutters of 17th century palazzi and sugared-almond baroque church façades, vivid sights and intriguing details appear on and around every corner of the Vieille Ville. If you care to look you'll find a cannon ball embedded in the wall from a long-ago siege and numerous tiny shrines set high above the narrow thoroughfares. You will also overhear Nissard, the local dialect, being spoken by artisan shopkeepers and stallholders at the bustling Cours Saleya market, and read the bilingual neighborhood street signs - not in Italian, but Nissard. The local cuisine is celebrated the world over - ratatouille, salade niçoise, pistou, petits farcis, socca, pan bagnat, pissaladière - authentic family-run restaurants niçois inhabit the Old Town warren, serving many and varied dishes of the pays niçois and offering a relaxed, hospitable welcome plus delicious fare.



Two minutes from the apartment lies the Gare Routière, handy for the airport bus and also your link to Riviera resorts Cannes, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Villefranche, Cap Ferrat, Beaulieu, Monaco and Menton; enchanting hilltop village perchés: Eze, Peillon, St. Paul de Vence, Roquebrune, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès; the natural wonders of the Parc National de Mercantour; even the alpine ski resorts of Isola 2000 and Valberg are accessible by bus - and don't forget fragrant Grasse, perfume capital of the world. Most routes are only 1.30€ ...fancy a morning swim followed by an evening at the casino? Be our guest at Pont Vieux.

Of special interest to fans of Rick Stein's most recent adventure, Mediterranean Escapes, Nice is a major port of entry for Corsica's wonderful produce. Mountain charcuterie such as figatellu, coppa and lonzu, smoked over chestnut wood; delicious goats' cheeses and ewe's milk brocciu (similar to ricotta) and honey - all redolent of the heady maquis scent of wild herbs - Corsican wine also; the Vin de Pays de l'Ile de Beauté (very often the house wine sold by the pichet in Nice restaurants) and the 8 appellations contrôlées: all are available locally, at reasonable prices and almost nowhere else outside Corsica.