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Royal Welsh Agricultural Show Ground, Llanelwedd
The Royal Welsh Show (Welsh: Sioe Frenhinol Cymru) is the one of the largest agricultural shows in Europe. It is organised by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, which was formed in 1904, and takes place in July of each year, at Llanelwedd, near Builth Wells, in Powys, Mid Wales.
The first show was held in Aberystwyth in 1904, and its success led to the development of the permanent showground at Llanelwedd, first used in 1963.
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1 Format
2 Business
3 Social event
4 Welsh Cob Senior Stallions
5 Rail access
6 See also
7 External links
Format[edit]
The show lasts for four days and attracts more than 200,000 visitors annually, making it a major boom for tourism in Wales.
Events include:
Judging of cattle, sheep, horses, goats, pigs and various other domestic animals
Sheepdog trials
Sheep shearing competitions
Horse riding competitions
Four-in-hand and Carriage Driving displays
Falconry
Games and sports such as the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery of the Royal Horse Artillery
Arts and crafts show
Live music
Given its "Iesu grist" status it is not unusual for a senior member of the British Royal family to attend at the Show. A familiar sight is the Prince of Wales, who is generally acknowledged to be a keen supporter of the farming community. Indeed, following his outspoken support during the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, some farmers regard him as an influential figure. One farming union, the FUW, nominated him for his outstanding contribution to agriculture in 2003, which was announced at the show.
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show at Bangor, 1958.
The Royal Welsh Show 1963, Llanelwedd.
The Royal Welsh Show 1963, Llanelwedd
Business[edit]
Most major businesses with links to agriculture will have a trade stand at the show. Given the number of farming people at the venue it is regarded as a vital opportunity to attract new business as well as to network with current customers. It is not unusual, for instance, to see an exhibition trade stand selling manure spreaders sited next to a stand selling luxury sports cars.
Social event[edit]
The Royal Welsh Show is particularly significant for young people who live in farming communities in Wales. It is regarded as one of the highlights of the year and as an opportunity to socialise with old friends and make new acquaintances, particularly of the opposite sex. The Wales Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs runs a series of competitions throughout Wales throughout the year, and the finals of the practical competitions usually take place at the Show. Amongst these events are stock judging and tractor driving.
Welsh Cob Senior Stallions[edit]
Arguably the biggest event at the show is the Welsh Cob Senior Stallion class, traditionally held on the Wednesday afternoon of the show ("Welsh Cob Wednesday"). The class is held using the entire main arena, and the grandstand, opposite hill and surrounds are typically packed, with seating becoming hard to come by from about 10:30 onwards. The 50+ stallions are paraded at the trot in front of the grandstand, raising often thunderous roars from the crowd before they settle down for the judging of the class.
This event on its own brings spectators from all around the world.
Rail access[edit]
Linked via the Heart of Wales Line station of Builth Road, where connecting buses link with the Arriva Trains Wales service during show times.
See also[edit]
List of Royal Shows
Royal Show former English agricultural show
External links[edit]
Wales portal
Official website
BBC Wales feature on the 2008 Royal Welsh
Farmers' Union of Wales
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French Riviera
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French Riviera
Côte d'Azur
Coastline
Èze, Alpes-Maritimes
Country
France, Monaco
Population
• Total
2 million
"Côte d'Azur" redirects here. For other uses, see Côte d'Azur (disambiguation).
"Blue Coast" redirects here. For other uses, see Blue Coast Records.
The Côte d'Azur (French pronunciation: [kot daˈzyʁ]; Occitan: Còsta d'Azur pronounced [ˈkɔstɔ daˈzyɾ]; literal translation "Coast of Azure"), often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the state of Monaco. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from the France-Italy border (Italian Riviera, east) to Saint-Tropez, Hyères, Toulon or Cassis (west), in the French Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.[1][2]
This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century, it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially, the Côte d'Azur is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 foreign residents,[3] although estimates of the number of non-French nationals living in the area are often much higher.[4]
Its largest city is Nice, which has a population of 347,060 (2006).[5] The city is the center of a communauté urbaine – Nice-Côte d'Azur – bringing together 24 communes and more than 500,000 inhabitants and 933,080 in the urban area.
Nice is home to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, France's third-busiest airport (after Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris-Orly), which is on an area of partially reclaimed coastal land at the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. A second airport at Mandelieu was once the region's commercial airport,[6] but is now mainly used by private and business aircraft.[7] The A8 autoroute runs through the region, as does the old main road generally known as the Route nationale 7 (officially now the DN7 in the Var and the D6007 in the Alpes-Maritimes).[8] Trains serve the coastal region and inland to Grasse, with the TGV Sud Est service reaching Nice-Ville station in five and a half hours from Paris.
The French Riviera has a total population of more than two million. It contains the seaside resorts of Cap-d'Ail, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Cannes, Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus, Sainte Maxime and Saint-Tropez,[9] It is also home to a high-tech/science park or technopole at Sophia-Antipolis (north of Antibes), and a research and technology center at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. The region has 35,000 students, of whom 25 percent are working toward a doctorate.[10]
The French Riviera is a major yachting and cruising area with several marinas along its coast. According to the Côte d'Azur Economic Development Agency, each year the Riviera hosts 50 percent of the world's superyacht fleet, with 90 percent of all superyachts visiting the region's coast at least once in their lifetime.[11]
As a tourist center, French Riviera benefits from 310 to 330 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 miles) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants.[12]
Contents
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1 Etymology
1.1 Origins of the name Côte d'Azur
1.2 Origin of term French Riviera
1.3 Disputes over the extent of the Riviera and the Côte d'Azur
2 History
2.1 From prehistory to the Bronze Age
2.2 Greek influence
2.3 Roman colonization
2.4 Barbarians and Christians
2.5 The Counts of Provence and the House of Grimaldi
2.6 Popularity with the British upper class in 18th and 19th centuries
2.7 Railway, gambling, and royalty
2.8 Inter-war period, American visitors and decline of the aristocracy
2.9 The Second World War
2.10 Post-war period and late 20th century
3 Geography
3.1 Places
3.2 Tourism
3.3 Climate
3.3.1 Nice and Alpes-Maritimes
3.3.2 Var
4 Events and festivals
5 Painters
6 See also
7 Bibliography
7.1 History
7.2 Painters
8 References
Etymology[edit]
Origins of the name Côte d'Azur[edit]
View of Port Hercule, Monaco
The name Côte d'Azur was given to the coast by the writer Stéphen Liégeard in his book, La Côte d’azur, published in December 1887.[13] Liégeard was born in Dijon, in the French department of Côte-d'Or, and adapted that name by substituting the azure blue color of the Mediterranean for the gold of Côte-d'Or.[14]
Origin of term French Riviera[edit]
The term French Riviera is typical of English use. It was built by analogy with the term Italian Riviera, which extends east of the French Riviera (from Ventimiglia to La Spezia).[15] As early as the 19th century, the British referred to the region as the Riviera or the French Riviera, usually referring to the eastern part of the coast, between Monaco and the Italian border.[16] Originally, riviera is an Italian noun which means "coastline".[17]
In Occitan (Niçard and Provençal) and French, the only usual names are Còsta d'Azur in Occitan and Côte d'Azur in French.[18] A name like "French Riviera" (Ribiera Francesa in Occitan, Riviera Française in French) is unusual and sounds odd; it could only work as a word-to-word translation of the British point of view. For instance, in French, "Riviera Française" is found in the online Larousse encyclopedia[19] to refer to the holidays of a group of English workers (moreover, in Occitan, the word ribiera "coastline" mostly works as a common name, whereas in French, the old-fashioned term Rivière de Gênes was used to refer to the Italian Riviera whose center is Genoa).[20]
The Old Town district of Menton, which is the last town on the Côte d'Azur before the Italian frontier.
Disputes over the extent of the Riviera and the Côte d'Azur[edit]
The Côte d'Azur and the French Riviera have no official boundaries. Some sources put the western boundary at Saint-Tropez in the Var département. Others include Saint Tropez, Hyères or Toulon in the Var (departement), or as far as Cassis in the Bouches-du-Rhône département.[1][2] In her 1955 novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith describes the Riviera as including all of the coast between Toulon and the Italian border.
History[edit]
Main article: History of Provence
From prehistory to the Bronze Age[edit]
The Côte d'Azur has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Primitive tools dating to between 1,000,000 and 1,050,000 years ago were discovered in the Grotte du Vallonnet, near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, with stones and bones of animals, including bovines, rhinoceros, and bison. At Terra Amata (380,000 to 230,000 years ago), near the Nice Port, a fireplace was discovered that is one of the oldest found in Europe.[21]
Stone dolmens, monuments from the Bronze Age, can be found near Draguignan, while the Valley of Marvels (Vallée des Merveilles) near Mount Bégo, at 2,000 m (6,600 ft) elevation, is presumed to have been an outdoor religious sanctuary, having over 40,000 drawings of people and animals, dated to about 2000 BC.[22]
Greek influence[edit]
Beginning in the 7th century BC, Greek sailors from Asia Minor began to visit and then build trading posts (emporia) along the Côte d'Azur. Emporia were started at Olbia (Saint-Pierre-de-l'Almanarre, near Hyères); Antipolis (Antibes) and Nicaea (Nice). These settlements, which traded with the inhabitants of the interior, became rivals of the Etruscans and Phoenicians, who also visited the Côte d'Azur.
Roman colonization[edit]
In 8 BC the Emperor Augustus built an imposing trophy monument at La Turbie (the Trophy of the Alps or Trophy of Augustus) to mark the pacification of the region.
Roman towns, monuments and amphitheatres were built along the Côte d'Azur and many still survive, such as the amphitheatre and baths at Cimiez, above Nice, and the amphitheatre, Roman walls and other remains at Fréjus.
The 5th-century baptistery of Fréjus Cathedral, which is still in use.
Barbarians and Christians[edit]
Roman Provence reached the height of its power and prosperity during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. In the mid-3rd century, Germanic peoples began to invade the region, and Roman power weakened.
In the same period, Christianity started to become a powerful force in the region. The first cathedrals were built in the 4th century, and bishoprics were established: in Fréjus at the end of the 4th century, Cimiez and Vence in 439, and Antibes in 442. The oldest Christian structure still in existence on the Côte d'Azur is the baptistery of Fréjus Cathedral, built at the end of the 5th century, which also saw the founding of the first monastery in the region, Lerins Monastery on an island off the coast at Cannes.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the first half of the 5th century was followed by invasions of Provence by the Visigoths, the Burgundians and the Ostrogoths. There was then a long period of wars and dynastic quarrels, which in turn led to further invasions by the Saracens and the Normans in the 9th century.
The Counts of Provence and the House of Grimaldi[edit]
Some peace was restored to the coast by the establishment in 879 of a new kingdom of Provence, ruled first by the Bosonids dynasty (879–1112), then by the Catalans (1112–1246), and finally by the Angevins (1246–1382, elder branch, 1382–1483 (younger branch).
The ruins of the Grimaldi castle at Grimaud, near Saint-Tropez.
In the 13th century, another powerful political force appeared, the House of Grimaldi. Descended from a Genoese nobleman expelled from Genoa by his rivals in 1271, members of the different branches of the Grimaldis took power in Monaco, Antibes and Nice, and built castles at Grimaud, Cagnes-sur-Mer and Antibes. Albert II, the current Prince of Monaco is a descendant of the Grimaldis.
In 1388, the city of Nice and its surrounding territory, from the mouth of the Var to the Italian border, were separated from Provence and came under the protection of the House of Savoy. The territory was called the Comté de Nice after 1526, and thereafter its language, history and culture were separate from those of Provence until 1860, when it was re-attached to France under Napoleon III.
Provence retained its formal independence until 1480, when the last Comte de Provence, René I of Naples, died and left the Comté to his nephew, Charles du Maine, who in turn left it to Louis XI of France. In 1486, Provence formally became part of France.
Popularity with the British upper class in 18th and 19th centuries[edit]
Until the end of the 18th century, the area later known as the Côte d'Azur was a remote and impoverished region, known mostly for fishing, olive groves and the production of flowers for perfume (manufactured in Grasse).
A new phase began when the coast became a fashionable health resort for the British upper class in the late 18th century. The first British traveller to describe its benefits was the novelist Tobias Smollett, who visited Nice in 1763 when it was still an Italian city within the Kingdom of Sardinia. Smollett brought Nice and its warm winter climate to the attention of the British aristocracy with Travels through France and Italy, written in 1765. At about the same time, a Scottish doctor, John Brown, became famous for prescribing what he called climato-therapy, a change in climate, to cure a variety of diseases including tuberculosis, known then as consumption. The French historian Paul Gonnet wrote that, as a result, Nice was filled with "a colony of pale and listless English women and listless sons of nobility near death".
In 1834, a British nobleman and politician named Henry Peter Brougham, First Baron Brougham and Vaux, who had played an important part in the abolition of the slave trade, travelled with an unwell sister to the south of France, intending to go to Italy. A cholera epidemic in Italy forced him to stop at Cannes, where he enjoyed the climate and scenery so much that he bought land and built a villa. He began to spend his winters there and, owing to his fame, others followed: Cannes soon had a small British enclave.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a later British visitor who came for his health. In 1882 he rented a villa called La Solitude at Hyères, where he wrote much of A Child's Garden of Verses.
Railway, gambling, and royalty[edit]
The Monte Carlo Casino.
In 1864, six years after Nice became part of France following the Second Italian War of Independence the first railway was completed, making Nice and the Riviera accessible to visitors from all over Europe. One hundred thousand visitors arrived in 1865. By 1874, residents of foreign enclaves in Nice, most of whom were British, numbered 25,000.
The Villa Ephrussi in Cap-Saint-Jean-Ferrat, was built in 1905–1912 by Beatrice de Rothschild, of the Rothschild family.
In the mid-19th century British and French entrepreneurs began to see the potential of promoting tourism along the Côte d'Azur. At the time, gambling was illegal in France and Italy. In 1856, the Prince of Monaco, Charles III, began constructing a casino in Monaco, which was called a health spa to avoid criticism by the church. The casino was a failure, but in 1863 the Prince signed an agreement with François Blanc, a French businessman already operating a successful casino at Baden-Baden (southwestern Germany), to build a resort and new casino. Blanc arranged for steamships and carriages to take visitors from Nice to Monaco, and built hotels, gardens and a casino in a place called Spélugues. At the suggestion of his mother, Princess Caroline, Charles III renamed the place Monte Carlo after himself. When the railway reached Monte Carlo in 1870, many thousands of visitors began to arrive and the population of the principality of Monaco doubled.
The French Riviera soon became a popular destination for European royalty. Just days after the railway reached Nice in 1864, Tsar Alexander II of Russia visited on a private train, followed soon afterwards by Napoleon III and then Leopold II, the King of the Belgians.
Monument to Queen Victoria in Cimiez, in the hills above Nice, where she was a regular winter visitor.
Queen Victoria was a frequent visitor. In 1882 she stayed in Menton, and in 1891 spent several weeks at the Grand Hotel at Grasse. In 1892 she stayed at the Hotel Cost-belle in Hyères. In successive years from 1895 to 1899 she stayed in Cimiez in the hills above Nice. First, in 1895 and 1896, she patronised the Grand Hôtel, while in later years she and her staff took over the entire west wing of the Excelsior Hôtel Régina, which had been designed with her needs specifically in mind (part of which later became the home and studio of the renowned artist Henri Matisse). She travelled with an entourage of between sixty and a hundred, including chef, ladies in waiting, dentist, Indian servants, her own bed and her own food.[23]
The Prince of Wales was a regular visitor to Cannes, starting in 1872. He frequented the Club Nautique, a private club on the Croisette, the fashionable seafront boulevard of Cannes. He visited there each spring for a two-month period, observing yacht races from shore while the royal yacht floated, Britannia, was sailed by professional crewmen. After he became King in 1901, he never again visited the French Riviera.
By the end of the 19th century the Côte d'Azur began to attract artistic painters, who appreciated the climate, the bright colors and clear light. Among them were Auguste Renoir, who settled in Cagnes-sur-Mer and in Mougins, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Inter-war period, American visitors and decline of the aristocracy[edit]
The First World War brought down many of the royal houses of Europe and altered the nature and the calendar of the French Riviera. Following the war, greater numbers of Americans began arriving, with business moguls and celebrities eventually outnumbering aristocrats. The 'High Society' scene moved from a winter season to a summer season.
Americans began coming to the south of France in the 19th century. Henry James set part of his novel, The Ambassadors, on the Riviera. James Gordon Bennett Jr, the son and heir of the founder of the New York Herald, had a villa in Beaulieu. Industrialist John Pierpont Morgan gambled at Monte Carlo and bought 18th-century paintings by Fragonard in Grasse – shipping them to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
A feature of the French Riviera in the inter-war years was the Train Bleu, an all first-class sleeper train which brought wealthy passengers down from Calais. It made its first trip in 1922, and carried Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, and the future King Edward VIII over the years.
While Europe was still recovering from the war and the American dollar was strong, American writers and artists started arriving on the Côte d'Azur. Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence (1920) at a villa near Hyères, winning the Pulitzer Prize for the novel (the first woman to do so). Dancer Isadora Duncan frequented Cannes and Nice, but died in 1927 when her scarf caught in a wheel of the Amilcar motor car in which she was a passenger and strangled her. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald first visited with his wife Zelda in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo – eventually staying at Saint-Raphaël, where he wrote much of The Great Gatsby and began Tender is the Night.
While Americans were largely responsible for making summer the high season, a French fashion designer, Coco Chanel, made sunbathing fashionable. She acquired a striking tan during the summer of 1923, and tans then became the fashion in Paris.
During the abdication crisis of the British Monarchy in 1936, Wallis Simpson, the intended bride of King Edward VIII, was staying at the Villa Lou Vieie in Cannes, talking with the King by telephone each day. After his abdication, the Duke of Windsor (as he became) and his new wife stayed at the Villa La Croe near Antibes.
The English playwright and novelist Somerset Maugham also became a resident in 1926, buying the Villa Mauresque toward the tip of Cap Ferrat, near Nice.[24]
The Second World War[edit]
When Germany invaded France in June 1940, the remaining British colony was evacuated to Gibraltar and eventually to Britain. American Jewish groups helped some of the Jewish artists living in the south of France, such as Marc Chagall, to escape to the United States. In August 1942, 600 Jews from Nice were rounded up by French police and sent to Drancy, and eventually to death camps. In all about 5,000 French Jews from Nice perished during the war.
On 15 August 1944, American parachute troops landed near Fréjus, and a fleet landed 60,000 troops of the American Seventh Army and French First Army between Cavalaire and Agay, east of Saint-Raphaël. German resistance crumbled in days.
Saint-Tropez was badly damaged by German mines at the time of the liberation. The novelist Colette organized an effort to assure the town was rebuilt in its original style.
When the war ended, artists Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso returned to live and work.
Post-war period and late 20th century[edit]
The Cannes Film Festival was launched in September 1946, marking the return of French cinema to world screens. The Festival Palace was built in 1949 on the site of the old Cercle Nautique, where the Prince of Wales had met his mistresses in the late 19th century. The release of the French film Et Dieu… créa la femme (And God Created Woman) in November 1956 was a major event for the Riviera, making an international star of Brigitte Bardot, and making an international tourist destination of Saint-Tropez, particularly for the new class of wealthy international travellers called the jet set.
The marriage of American film actress Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco on 18 April 1956, attracted world attention once again. It was viewed on television by 30 million people.
During the 1960s, the Mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin, decided to reduce the dependence of the Riviera on ordinary tourism, and to make it a destination for international congresses and conventions. He built the Palais des Congrès at the Acropolis in Nice, and founded a Chagall Museum and a Matisse Museum at Cimiez. High-rise apartment buildings and real estate developments began to spread.
At the end of August, 1997, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed spent their last days together on his father's yacht off Pampelonne Beach near Saint-Tropez, shortly before they were killed in a traffic accident in the Alma Tunnel in Paris.
Geography[edit]
Map showing the extent of the Côte d'Azur.
Cap Ferrat; Plage la Paloma, a beach on the Côte d'Azur.
Boulevard de la Croisette along the waterfront in Cannes.
Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes.
Port of Porquerolles, an island in Var.
Courtade's Beach on Porquerolles.
Saint-Raphaël.
Saint-Tropez.
Coastline between Monaco and Menton.
Places[edit]
Places on the Côte d'Azur (following the broadest definition), following the coast from south-west to north-east, include:
Cassis
La Ciotat
Bandol
Sanary-sur-Mer
Six-Fours-les-Plages
Toulon
Hyères and the Îles d'Hyères (Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Île du Levant)
Le Lavandou
Cavalaire-sur-Mer
Saint-Tropez
Inland – Grimaud, with Port-Grimaud on the coast
Sainte-Maxime
Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël
Inland – Fayence
Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel
Tanneron
Théoule-sur-Mer
Mandelieu and La Napoule
Inland – Grasse
Inland – Mougins
the Îles de Lérins – Île Sainte-Marguerite and Île Saint-Honorat
Cannes
Inland – Vallauris
Inland – Valbonne
Inland – Sophia-Antipolis
Golfe-Juan
Juan-les-Pins
Antibes
Inland – Biot
Villeneuve-Loubet
Cagnes-sur-Mer
Inland – Vence
Inland – Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Inland – Saint-Jeannet
Saint-Laurent-du-Var
Inland – Belvédère
Nice
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Èze
Cap d'Ail
Monaco (including Monte-Carlo)
Beausoleil
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Menton
Deauville
Tourism[edit]
Some data related to tourism on the Riviera in 2006:
More than 14 million tourists
52% of customers from abroad
65 million nights stayed
Tourists spending €5 billion
75,000 jobs; tourism is 18% of total employment in the Alpes-Maritimes.
500,000 tourists in the High Country
500,000 delegates
3 million admissions to museums and monuments
More than 45% of tourists come by air
Climate[edit]
The Côte d'Azur has a Mediterranean climate, with sunny, hot, dry summers and mild winters. Winter temperatures are moderated by the Mediterranean; days of frost are rare. The average daily low temperature in Nice in January is 5.4 °C (41.7 °F); the January average daily low temperature in Toulon is 6.2 °C (43.2 °F). The average high temperature in August in Nice is 28.6 °C (83.5 °F); in Toulon the average daily high temperature is 29.7 °C (85.5 °F)
The Côte d'Azur receives more rainfall than Paris annually (803.3 mm (31.63 in) annually in Nice and 684.8 mm (26.96 in) in Toulon compared with 649.8 mm (25.58 in) in Paris), but the rainy days are much less frequent; 111 rainy days a year in Paris compared with 61 days in Toulon and 63 in Nice. Toulon has 2,793 hours of sunshine a year, Nice has 2,668 hours.[25]
Micro-climates exist in these coastal regions, and there can be great differences in the weather between various locations. Strong winds such as the Mistral, a cold dry wind from the northwest or from the east, are another characteristic, particularly in the winter.
[hide]Climate data for Nice (1981–2010 averages)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
22.5
(72.5) 25.8
(78.4) 26.1
(79) 26.0
(78.8) 30.3
(86.5) 36.8
(98.2) 36.3
(97.3) 37.7
(99.9) 33.9
(93) 29.9
(85.8) 25.4
(77.7) 22.0
(71.6) 37.7
(99.9)
Average high °C (°F)
13.1
(55.6) 13.4
(56.1) 15.2
(59.4) 17
(63) 20.7
(69.3) 24.3
(75.7) 27.3
(81.1) 27.7
(81.9) 24.6
(76.3) 21.0
(69.8) 16.6
(61.9) 13.8
(56.8) 19.56
(67.24)
Average low °C (°F)
5.3
(41.5) 5.9
(42.6) 7.9
(46.2) 10.2
(50.4) 14.1
(57.4) 17.5
(63.5) 20.3
(68.5) 20.5
(68.9) 17.3
(63.1) 13.7
(56.7) 9.2
(48.6) 6.3
(43.3) 12.35
(54.23)
Record low °C (°F)
−7.2
(19) −5.8
(21.6) −5.0
(23) 2.9
(37.2) 3.7
(38.7) 8.1
(46.6) 11.7
(53.1) 11.4
(52.5) 7.6
(45.7) 4.2
(39.6) 0.1
(32.2) −2.7
(27.1) −7.2
(19)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
69.0
(2.717) 44.7
(1.76) 38.7
(1.524) 69.3
(2.728) 44.6
(1.756) 34.3
(1.35) 12.1
(0.476) 17.8
(0.701) 73.1
(2.878) 132.8
(5.228) 103.9
(4.091) 92.7
(3.65) 733
(28.859)
Average precipitation days
6 5 5 7 5 4 2 2 5 7 7 6 61
Mean monthly sunshine hours
158 171 217 224 267 306 348 316 242 187 149 139 2,724
Percent possible sunshine
54 58 59 56 58 66 74 73 65 55 51 50 59.9
Source #1: [26]
Source #2: [27]
Nice seen from Spot Satellite
Nice and Alpes-Maritimes[edit]
Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes département are sheltered by the Alps. The winds are usually gentle, from the sea to the land, though sometimes the mistral blows strongly from the northwest, or, turned by the mountains, from the east. In 1956 a mistral from the northwest reached 180 kilometres per hour (110 mph) at Nice Airport.[25] Sometimes, in summer, the sirocco brings high temperatures and reddish desert sand from the Sahara. (See Winds of Provence.)
Rain can be torrential, particularly in the autumn, when storms and rain are caused by the difference between the colder air inland and the warm Mediterranean water temperature (20–24 °C [68–75 °F]). The rainiest months are September (75.6 millimetres [2.98 in] average rainfall); October (143.9 millimetres [5.67 in]); November (94.3 millimetres [3.71 in]) and December (87.8 millimetres [3.46 in]).[25]
Snow on the coast is rare, falling on average once every ten years. 1956 was exceptional, when 20 cm (7.9 in) blanketed the coast.[25] In January 1985 the coast between Cannes and Menton received 30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 in). In the mountains, snow is present from November to May.
Var[edit]
The département of Var (which includes Saint-Tropez and Hyères) has a climate slightly warmer, drier and sunnier than Nice and Alpes-Maritimes, but is less sheltered from the wind.
The mistral wind, which brings cold and dry air down from the upper Alpine regions via the Rhône valley and extends with diminishing intensity along the Côte d'Azur, blows frequently during the winter. Strong winds blow for about 75 days a year in Fréjus.[25]
Events and festivals[edit]
Several major events take place:
Monaco and southeast France; Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, January
Monaco Grand Prix race
Monaco; International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, January / February
Nice; Carnival, February
Menton; Lemon Festival, February
Tourrettes-sur-Loup; Violet Festival, March
Monaco; Monte-Carlo Masters, April–May
Monaco; Formula One Grand Prix race, May
Grasse; Rose Festival, May
Cannes; Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Film Market, May
Nice; Jazz Festival, July
Juan-les-Pins; Jazz à Juan, late July.
Grasse; Jasmine Festival, August
Toulon; Toulon Tournament, Tall Ships' Race
Painters[edit]
Paul Signac, The Port of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 1901.
The climate and vivid colors of the Mediterranean attracted many famous artists during the 19th and 20th centuries. They included:
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947); retired to and died at Le Cannet.
Georges Braque (1882–1963); painted frequently at L'Estaque between 1907 and 1910.
Roger Broders (1883–1953); Parisian travel poster illustrator.
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906); a native of Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne painted at L'Estaque between 1878 and 1882.
Marc Chagall (1887–1985); lived in Saint-Paul-de-Vence between 1948 and 1985.
Henri-Edmond Cross (1856–1910); discovered the Côte d'Azur in 1883, and painted at Monaco and Hyères.
Maurice Denis (1870–1943); painted at St. Tropez and Bandol.
André Derain (1880–1954); painted at L'Estaque and Martigues.
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953); whose wife was from Nice, painted in the region, including in Nice, Marseille and Martigues.
Albert Marquet (1873–1947); painted at Marseille, St. Tropez and L'Estaque.
Henri Matisse (1869–1954); first visited St. Tropez in 1904. In 1917 he settled in Nice, first at the Hôtel Beau Rivage, then at the Hôtel de la Méditerranée, then at la Villa des Alliés in Cimiez. In 1921 he lived in an apartment in Nice, next to the flower market and overlooking the sea, where he lived until 1938. He then moved to the Hôtel Régina in the hills of Cimiez, above Nice. During World War II he lived in Vence, then returned to Cimiez, where he died and is buried.
Claude Monet (1840–1927); visited Menton, Bordighera, Juan-les-Pins, Monte Carlo, Nice, Cannes, Beaulieu and Villefranche, and painted a number of seascapes of Cap Martin, near Menton, and at Cap d'Antibes.
Edvard Munch (1863–1944); visited and painted in Nice and Monte Carlo (where he developed a passion for gambling), and rented a villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1891.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973); spent each summer from 1919 to 1939 on the Côte d'Azur, and moved there permanently in 1946, first at Vallauris, then at Mougins, where he spent his last years.
Auguste Renoir (1841–1919); visited Beaulieu, Grasse, Saint-Raphaël and Cannes, before finally settling in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1907, where he bought a farm in the hills and built a new house and workshop on the grounds. He continued to paint there until his death in 1919. His house is now a museum.
Paul Signac (1863–1935); visited St. Tropez in 1892, and bought a villa, La Hune, at the foot of citadel in 1897. It was at his villa that his friend, Henri Matisse, painted his famous Luxe, Calme et Volupté in 1904. Signac made numerous paintings along the coast.
Yves Klein (1928–1962); a native of Nice, considered an important figure in post-war European art.
Sacha Sosno (1937–2013); French painter and sculptor living and working in Nice.
See also[edit]
Egypt's Mediterranean Riviera
Gardens of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Gulf of Genoa
Turkish Riviera
Portuguese Riviera
Italian Riviera
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Red Sea Riviera
Riviera (disambiguation page), featuring links to articles on the many coastal strips around the world which are known as Riviera
Southern France
Bibliography[edit]
History[edit]
Henry de Lumley, La Grand Histoire des premiers hommes européens, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010. (ISBN 978 2 7381 2386 2)
Aldo Bastié, Histoire de la Provence, Éditions Ouest-France, 2001.
Mary Blume, Côte d'Azur: Inventing the French Riviera, Thames and Hudson, London, 1992.
Patrick Howarth, When the Riviera was Ours, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977.
Jim Ring, Riviera, the Rise and Fall of the Côte d'Azur, John Murray Publishers, London, 1988.
Edouard Baratier (editor), Histoire de la Provence, Editions Privat, Toulouse, 1969 (ISBN 2 7089 1649 1)
Painters[edit]
La Méditerranée de Courbet à Matisse, catalog of the exhibit at the Grand Palais, Paris from September 2000 to January 2001. Published by the Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000.
References[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to French Riviera.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for French_Riviera.
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^ Jump up to: a b "Côte d'Azur, Partie orientale du littoral français, sur la Méditerranée, de Cassis à Menton" ("Côte d'Azur, Eastern part of the French coast, on the Mediterranean, from Cassis to Menton"), in Le Petit Larousse illustré (2005), p. 1297.
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Standin' on the Corner Park
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Standin' on the Corner Park
Standin' on the Corner Park, a tribute to the Jackson Browne/Glenn Frey song "Take It Easy"
Type
Municipal
Location
Winslow, Arizona
Coordinates
35°1′24.54″N 110°41′53.03″W / 35.0234833°N 110.6980639°W / 35.0234833; -110.6980639
Created
1999
Operated by
Standin' on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona Park Committee
Status
Open all year
Standin' on the Corner Park (opened in 1999 in Winslow, Arizona). It is a public park, commemorating the song "Take It Easy" which was written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, and, most famously, recorded by the Eagles. The song includes the verse "Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and such a fine sight to see. It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me." The park contains a two-story trompe-l'œil mural by John Pugh, and a bronze statue by Ron Adamson[1] of a life-sized man with a guitar who is standing on a corner with the guitar by his side. The park is surrounded by a wall of bricks, with windows to peer in to; each brick has a donor's name on it, and a story by each of the donors describing their fondness for Winslow, Arizona.[2]
History[edit]
Up until the 1960s, Winslow was a thriving town in northern Arizona just off Route 66. Construction of the $7.7 million bypass around Winslow began soon after 1977.[3] When I-40 bypassed the community many local businesses disappeared, tourism being among the hardest hit. While some local jobs remained (as Winslow is the base of operation for one thousand railroad workers), the local downtown was badly hurt by the influx of national chains (such as Walmart and McDonald's) along the new interstate highway to the north of the town.[4] Twenty years passed and Winslow was stuck in a commercial rut.
Winslow was the next to last town to be bypassed... We would watch hundreds of trucks roll by day and night. Then one morning, they opened (I-40) and everything stopped. For about 20 years, nobody knew what to do.
—  Diane Patterson, Winslow-born owner of Roadworks Gifts and Souvenirs[4]
In 1997, the La Posada Hotel (a former Harvey House on the Santa Fe Railroad, long at risk for demolition) was restored and reopened. Listing of La Posada Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places served as a first step toward re-awakening the town.
The Standin' on the Corner Foundation was formed to create a renaissance of Winslow. Determined to build on tourism, the foundation took advantage of the town being mentioned in the song "Take It Easy" made famous by the Eagles. From 1997 until 1999, the foundation was busy finding donors and planning design concepts. On September 10 and 11, 1999 the park was opened to the public.[2]
The 2006 release of animated film Cars brought renewed attention to the efforts to save local U.S. Route 66 main street businesses in towns long bypassed. While Winslow itself is not depicted on-screen, the movie's credits list both La Posada Hotel and Diane Patterson's souvenir shop at Standin' on the Corner Park among the many Mother Road locations at which Pixar studio personnel conducted exhaustive interviews as part of extensive research for the film.
On October 18, 2004, there was a fire at the Standin' on the Corner Park. While the face of the building and the actual corner survived, the rest of the building was burned down. As of 2011[update], an attempt to restore downtown Winslow tourism is booming.
In September 2016, a statue was unveiled at the park in the likeness of Glenn Frey, who died earlier that year.[5]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ http://www.ronadamson.com
^ Jump up to: a b "History of the Park". Standin' On The Corner Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Sundt Gets Contract For Winslow Bypass". December 4, 1977. p. 3. [full citation needed]
^ Jump up to: a b Bell, L. (July 2007). "In Winslow Arizona". Inside Outside Southwest. Archived November 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Winslow gets life-sized statue of the Eagles' Glenn Frey". 12 News. 2016-09-28. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
External links[edit]
Official Site
Coordinates: 35°01′25″N 110°41′53″W / 35.0235°N 110.6981°W / 35.0235; -110.6981
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