The walk of the English is a considered place of walk with Nice.

Before its urbanization, the littoral niçois was only one stony and deserted band. The first houses were only higher in the grounds.

Starting from second half of the 18th century, the English which took the practice to spend the winter to Nice, often benefitted from the panorama of this coast. At the time one particularly rigorous winter, an surge of beggars pushed the English rich person to propose a useful work to them: the realization of a way of walk.

The municipality, which found the result completely interesting, multiplied the alteration work thereafter. The name of camin dei Anglés was given by Niçois, in the language niçoise, then, at the time of the annexation of Nice by the France in 1860, its Francization was adopted: the walk of the English .

Today

For much, the place became the Promenade or even the Prom' .

Nowadays, the walk of the English is one of the places of visit impossible to circumvent in Nice. It became a place of appointment for all the amateurs of Roller S.

In addition to the many demonstrations (Carnival of Nice, battles of flowers, etc), the walk is famous for its “blue chairs” and its Pergola S, favourable with a very Mediterranean Farniente and with the contemplation of the Baie of the Angels.

Installation

Ways

One often characterizes the Walk of the English by the Northern way (with dimensions city, western direction), and the southern way (with dimensions sea, direction is).

The northern Way is on the near total of its layout in 3 ways, except on the level of the airport where one counts 4 of them.

The southern Way as for it is not homogeneous:

• 6 Ways with height of the airport
• 5 Ways between Haliotis and the hospital Lenval
• 4 Ways of Lenval around Grosso/Gambetta
• 3 Ways until its end with the Quay of the United States.

Town planning

This immense avenue profits from a special architectural work, thus the coating is slightly maroon, of the kiosks and of the pergolas skirts the 8 km of beach, finally the standard lamps are also single.

The Marie of Nice decided to reduce of a way the southern roadway between Haliotis and Grosso to the profit of a cycle track. However this reduction is made motorists azuréens to the great displeasure, especially when it is known that Prom' drains more 100  000 vehicles and which it is very difficult to borrow it because of stoppers.

Some buildings bordering the walk of the English

As the walk is bordered of ground only on the northern side, numeration is continuous instead of going from two into two.

• n°1 : Meridian Hotel with the Casino Ruhl.

• n°3 : Savoy De luxe hotel : H. Aubert architect 1953. Another entry: 5 rue Halévy. Savoy is the English name of the Savoy and perpetuates here a long tradition of hotels and residences comfortable and which perhaps goes up with the hotel that had in London with the Middle Ages several princes of the Maison of Savoy.
• n°15 : Palate of the Mediterranean .
• On this site there be initially a Venetian Palate ; surrounded by a ground this palate was sold in 1927 demolished then.
• One built in the place celebrates it Palais of the Mediterranean which was inaugurated the January 10th 1929. Architect: Charles Dalmas.
• Following the mysterious disappearance of its heiress Agnès Le Roux in October 1977, the casino closed and the palate was left with the abandonment then demolished except for the classified frontage historic building the August 18th 1985.
• the Palais of the Mediterranean was rebuilt by preserving the frontage arts déco : a casino and a large hotel reopened in 2004.
• On the influence of old the Palais of the Mediterranean one also built residences and in particular the De luxe hotel with 3 rue de Congrès.
• n°19 : Palate of France : the Rue of France is parallel to the Walk of the English
• n°27 : Hotel Westminster.
• n°29 : Palate Fiora
• angle of the street of Rivoli : entered of the public garden which was the garden of the villa Masséna alias Palais Masséna of 65 rue de France. The quay level which separated the garden from the villa of the walk of the English and which was used as Belvédère was removed in its central part.
• n°31 : The Hotel West-end.
• n°37 : Hotel Négresco.
• n°52 : Palate Marie-Gabrielle Images: Seen general and detail of the entry .
• n°53 : Palate Mary : Kevork Arsenian engineer-architect, Giraud engineer. Images: Seen general and detail of the entry .
• n°59 : The hotel Sheraton Elysium De luxe hotel
• n°83-85 : Palate of the East : G. & Mr. Dikansky architect DESA - architect DPLG, Nice 1962. Images: Seen general and detail of the entry .
• n°113 : Palate of the Agriculture : it is under this name that a panel announces (in 2006) the rehabilitation of this building pertaining to the central Société of Agriculture, Horticulture and Acclimatization of Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes .
• n°123 : Palate Marie-Christine .
• n°129 (a) : Palate Monty : another 19 avenue de la Californie entry.
• n°167 : the Crown and Palate the Crown for the Telephone directory 2004. Another anonymous entry but with 75 rue de la Californie with the indication: G. Dikansky 1927. Authors (Michel Stève) speak about the real the Crown .
• n°193-195 : Palate “Ascot”
• n°219 : Palazzo LED Ground : synthesis enters Spanish palacio LED ground and Italian palazzo LED plate
• n°223 : The Abela Hotel
• n°245 : Palate of the Sea
• n°393 : EDHEC Business School and the University of management of the companies , business schools.
• n°455 : District of businesses of the arenas

See too

• Odonyme celebrates

• Photograph gallery on the walk of the English
• Panorama with 360° of the Walk of the English
• the walk of the English on photoenligne

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