Looks like a very nice city. Thanks for posting the pictures.
Nice, France: architecturally a Southern European city?
Nice, France: architecturally a Southern European city?
See related thread for comparison:
Lille, France: architecturally a Northern European city or not?
Located 23 km from Italy and right along the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is located in one of France’s southern regions with Mediterranean coast. Looking at the type of windows, roofs and overall high density, is Nice a Southern European city at least in architecture?
Images are from Google Maps Street View. A few images are of adjacent municipalities in the continuous Nice urbanized area.
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region where Nice is located along the coast
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See related thread for comparison:
Lille, France: architecturally a Northern European city or not?
Located 23 km from Italy and right along the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is located in one of France’s southern regions with Mediterranean coast. Looking at the type of windows, roofs and overall high density, is Nice a Southern European city at least in architecture?
Images are from Google Maps Street View. A few images are of adjacent municipalities in the continuous Nice urbanized area.
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Amazing indeed 
Nice city is indeed a southern European city or better a southern French city.
After Monte Carlo (Monaco) i like most this city :cheers:
Nice city is indeed a southern European city or better a southern French city.After Monte Carlo (Monaco) i like most this city :cheers:
After pic 28 it looks very italian to me , but for the most part it looks french, similar to other central-south french cities.
, but for the most part it looks french, similar to other central-south french cities.So true....
hno:I'm quite confused cause' Old Nice really makes me think of Mediterranean cities, you know the cities where clothes dry above the streets...
This is quite hard to say... As said before... the "Vieux Nice" is very italian...
The development of the city in the XIX century has been done by the European high society... They imported their own styles : tudor, gothic, russian...
The exotism has been a fashion as well... with some arabic or mauresque buildings (the casino was a magnificent exemple of that style).
There is only the end of the XIXth/ begining of XXth century which has seen a kind of nationalist and above all regionalist architecture. They used grey stone (evocating for instance the architecture of small villages as St Paul de Vence), and painted some parts of the façade (in reference to the genovian style of painted façade)...
Then the american went to the french Riviera and Art Deco as modernism was a fashion...
After the second world war... there is some strange architectural development... unknown... some kind of architecture-sculpture... but nothing regionalist or nationalist. During the 80's some "provençal" building were erected... nothing interesting... and for now...contemporary architecture is unexistant....
So... is Nice a southern european city...? yes because of the old nice and the influence of this part on the style of the city... and no... because of the melting pot which gave to the city a mix of architecture...
Some exemple :
Italian old town
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Art nouveau and regionalist influence
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parisian way of life
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orientalism
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viennish style
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The development of the city in the XIX century has been done by the European high society... They imported their own styles : tudor, gothic, russian...
The exotism has been a fashion as well... with some arabic or mauresque buildings (the casino was a magnificent exemple of that style).
There is only the end of the XIXth/ begining of XXth century which has seen a kind of nationalist and above all regionalist architecture. They used grey stone (evocating for instance the architecture of small villages as St Paul de Vence), and painted some parts of the façade (in reference to the genovian style of painted façade)...
Then the american went to the french Riviera and Art Deco as modernism was a fashion...
After the second world war... there is some strange architectural development... unknown... some kind of architecture-sculpture... but nothing regionalist or nationalist. During the 80's some "provençal" building were erected... nothing interesting... and for now...contemporary architecture is unexistant....
So... is Nice a southern european city...? yes because of the old nice and the influence of this part on the style of the city... and no... because of the melting pot which gave to the city a mix of architecture...
Some exemple :
Italian old town
Art nouveau and regionalist influence
parisian way of life
orientalism
viennish style
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The city of Nice in France is indeed a great, very nice city; also beautiful as well, especially the old part of Nice
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