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Promenade des Anglias
Stroll along the ‘Promenade des Anglais’ - so called because it was built in the 1820's by the English community. It runs along the Baie des Anges from the Coline du Chateau up to the airport some six kilometres away. You can walk all the way and back in around three hours. If your feet can take it, your heart will thank you for it. Or you could hire some skates. On the way admire the belle epoche hotels and apartments, or just drink in the changing light of the azure blue sea and sky.
It was outside the Negresco in 1927 that Isadora Duncan met her untimely end courtesy of the wheels of her Bugatti. The three white Pergolas opposite date from the 1930's. The famous blue chairs appeared in the late forties, only to disappear and last year make a comeback, welded together
At weekends in high season crowds throng in their thousands to the ‘Prom’ where street entertainers compete with one of the finest people watching opportunities there is. Glamorous Italian couples, haughty Parisians, eccentric retired Niciouse dressed forty years too young, rollerbladers, joggers, bikers, families, everyone just loves taking a stroll down the Prom.
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