SOME DISTANCES IN KILOMETRES :
Paris - Nice
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931 km
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Bordeaux - Nice
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810 Km
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Lyon - Nice
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440 Km
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Marseille - Nice
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190 Km
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Strasbourg - Nice
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868 Km
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Athènes - Nice
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2597 Km
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Bruxelles - Nice
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1280 Km
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Genève - Nice
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485 Km
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Madrid - Nice
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1315 Km
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Rome - Nice
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695 Km
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BY PLANE :
56 air lines are connecting NICE COTE D'AZUR
AIRPORT with 90 cities in 40 countries. 36
airline companies are present. 6,2 million passengers are
passing in transit, each year, through NICE. The traffic may
reach 10 million passengers in the year 2000. 42 per cent of
the traffic is international. There is also what we may call
an airlift between NICE and PARIS : 185 flights per
week. And 942 flights are proposed to the passengers of
the Great French-Italian Riviera : NICE is the main door to
the South Europe. The NICE COTE D'AZUR AIRPORT, which will
celebrate this year its 50 years, confirms its rank as the
first airport platform of France. Its activity produces over
19 million Francs per year of economic consequences.
The NICE COTE D'AZUR AIRPORT is set on the Promenade
des Anglais, in the west of the town, 7 kilometres away from
the centre and in the vicinity of the Arenas Business Centre
and of the industrial parks of La Plaine 1, Saint Isidore
and Lingostière.
RENSEIGNEMENTS PRATIQUES:
CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE ET D'INDUSTRIE NICE CÔTE
D'AZUR, tél. : (+33) (0)4 93 21 30 73, fax : (+33)
(0)4 93 2131 81
AEROPORT : (+33) (0)4 93 21 30 30
BORDER POLICE : (+33) (0)4 93 72 71 71
INTERNATIONAL VACCINATIONS : (+33) (0)4 93 21 38 81
LIAISONS AEROPORT :
- BY ROAD
- a bus service operates regularly between the town centre
and the railway station, departure every thirty minutes.
- Taxis at the terminals exits.
- Car rental, branches in the airport hall.
- BY HELICOPTER
- NICE / MONACO, NICE / ST TROPEZ, through private firms,
departure every twenty minutes.
BY ROAD :
Nice is linked to the whole of Europe by a dense
motorway network. A bypass motorway, allows, by the
laying-out of five exits, to reach without difficulty the
quarter of one's preferences. The parking space for 19 000
cars is a solution to all the parking problems in the
district.
Furthermore, the department's infrastructure, full
of tourist routes has gained from improvements carried out
in the past years and eases the hinterland's discovery in
the best possible conditions
Les routes touristiques menant à NICE
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ROUTE NAPOLEON - Digne, Castellane, Grasse, Cannes,
Golfe-Juan et Nice.
VALLEE DU VAR - Digne, Puget-Théniers, Nice
GORGES DE LA ROYA - Col de Tende, Sospel, Menton,
Nice.
ROUTE NATIONALE 7 - Fréjus, Saint
Raphaël, Cannes, Nice, ou Menton, Monaco, Eze, Nice.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION :
The roads condition : Regional centre of Road
Information - Centre regional d'Informations routieres, TEL
: (+33) 04 91 78 78 78.
The coach links : international and national regular
coach services, Coach Station - Gare routiere de Nice,
Promenade du Paillon, TEL : (+33) 04 93 85 61 81 or 04 93 80
08 70.
BY TRAIN :
The SNCF (French Rail) is operating 20 daily links
from the big French town and 11 regular links from abroad to
Nice. The TGV ( high-speed train) links up Paris and Nice in
six and a half hours - 2 links per day from October to May,
3 from June to September.
The "car-sleeper train" service is running between
the big French towns : the cars are transported in the same
time as their owners, who may have the use of the sleeper
train.
The "Hotel-Train" service is an SNCF offer and
includes the fare and reservation of a hotel for the night
in Nice.
INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS :
Railway Station-Gare SNCF, avenue Thiers, tél. : (+33) 36
35 35 35
Discovery of the hinterland with the CHEMINS DE FER
DE PROVENCE : NICE / DIGNE - daily links - information and
bookings: tel. : (+33) (0)4 93 82 10 17
Car rental, TEL : (+33) 08 05 325 325
The coast is served by a dense SNCF bus network.
BY BOAT:
In the heart of the town, the port of Nice consists
of a ten hectares lake, seven hectares platforms and ten or
so quays. The big shipping companies and numerous cruising
liners are calling at Nice.
There is a regular car-ferries service to Corsica.
Nice is a sailing resort with all the related
services : mooring on floating bridges, catways, quays,
towing dock, launderette, ice distribution, fuel, showers,
bathrooms, telephone, cable TV, daily weather reports and
boat hire.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Capitainerie du Port, 2 quai d'Entrecasteaux,
tél. : (+33) (0)4 93 89 50 85, fax : (+33) 92 04 95
(0)4 93
Chamber of Commerce, quai Infernet,
tél. : (+33) 92 00 42 42, fax : (+33) 92 00 42 10
Corsica links : SNCM, quai du commerce, tél.
: (+33) (0)4 93 13 66 66, fax : (+33) (0)4 93 13 66 81
CORSICA FERRIES, tél. : (+33) (0)4 93 55 55 55, fax :
(+33) (0)4 93 55 22 12
Boat hire:
Destination Azur - boats, hot air balloons:
tél. : (+33) (0)4 93 55 73 51,
fax : (+33) (0)4 93 56 03 54
Locaventure - inflatable dinghies, canoes, kayaks:
tél.: (+33) (0)4 93 56 14 67,
fax : (+33) (0)4 93 56 75 72
Moorings - eight to fifteen meters yachts, from
April to October : tél. : (+33) 92 00 42 22,
fax : (+33) (0)4 93 92 00 42 20
Three'B - tél. : (+33) (0)4 93 56 55 05, fax
: (+33) (0)4 9326 78 79
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