Nize is an historical city of the Blue Coast in France, very near Italy,for this reason a part of its population still speaks the nicense, which is an Italian and French mixture . It is the fifth city with more inhabitants of France, and its situation in the Mediterranean gives a special extra plus of good climate and excellent conditions.
We are rich in history and in accordance with the rests found , Nize is a city that was inhabited 400.000 years ago.The city was founded on the first years of our age by the Focenses of Marseilles. Its first name was Nikaïa
Its history has strongly been tied to Italy, until it was reunified to France at the end of XVIII Century.
As Nize has a Mediterranean climate, the winter is smooth and practically there are no frosts, but in the mountains snow can be observed.It is a nice place to live in and our main activity is tourism.
Nize has agreements of close relationship with the cities of:
Alicante,
Spain
Cuneo
Italy
Edimburgo
United Kingdom
Gdansk
Poland
Houston
the United States
Laval
Canada
Núremberg
Germany, from 1954
