Old town – the old part of nice, which is easy to get lost. The chaotic maze of streets, old houses, around – restaurants, shops, galleries artists.

Wander through the Old town on foot is better: many of the narrow streets, the car will not drive, and the bike will have to carry the stone stairs. But tourists can explore the triangle bounded from the East of the Castle hill, from the South promenade This-Uni, West promenade paillon, North – Piazza Garibaldi.

By the early seventeenth century, this small triangle under the protection of the citadel and was actually nice. Current with the Maritime Alps, the river paillon, which laundresses washed clothes, sometimes flooded the city. By the seventies of the last century, the wayward river hid in underground pipe, she stopped to separate the Old city from the new, arc stretching along the Bay of Angels.

The ancient town is not only an attraction for tourists. At night the square is transformed into an outdoor café, here dancing, a resident of Old nice locks the window in hopes to drown out the music and polyglot dialect. But in the morning he goes with a basket on the Cours Saleya market and drink coffee with friends in bistro, sweeping the hushed street. Two lives, and the usual tourist run parallel.

In the heat of summer streets of Old nice merciful to tourists: the contrast of temperatures of the hot tiled roofs and narrow shaded streets, drives the air – there is always a cool breeze. Because of that, citizens without the slightest scruple hang over the window linen to dry. Colored house with green shutters look as if time has stopped centuries ago. Near – equally old small Baroque churches: chapel of the Holy Trinity and the Holy shroud, the Church of St. James, chapel of Mercy with its dazzling frescoes and gilding, the Church of St. Francis of Paola, standing in front of the Opera of nice.

Streets of the Old town are so narrow that to appreciate the beauty of buildings is sometimes difficult. Such is the fate of the Palais Lascaris on Rue Droite – to enjoy its beauty, you need to get inside, where tourists interiors in the Italian Baroque style and the Museum of musical instruments, second in France, according to the riches of the collection.

On jeu Rossetti, in the heart of the Old town, stands the magnificent Cathedral Sainte-Réparate, the patron Saint of nice. In the III century fifteen year old girl from Caesarea in Palestine refused to renounce Christ and was beheaded, her soul in the form of a dove flew into the sky. The legend says that the body of the Martyr was placed in the boat, which the angels by his breath brought here, on the shore of the Bay of Angels.

Tourist will aim their foot on abraded stones winding streets and climb the tower of Bellanda to cover the eye shining sea horizon, in the languor will sit at outdoor cafe table to enjoy local cakes Sokka with salt and black pepper. From the cemetery on Castle hill flies the bell ringing. Winds bring the breath of the Bay – is as fresh and pure as the breath of angels eighteen centuries ago.