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Promenade des Anglais – This is promendade
is the French version of Santa Monica Beach, a wide sidewalk along the beach.
It's great for a long walk, plenty of other families, kids biking
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Parc Des Miniatures – To find out about the history
of the Cote d'Azur, go to the Parc Des Miniatures where you can see hundreds
of model buildings 3-6 feet high. Also, take a look at the Musee Des
Train Miniatures, an extensive model train layout. |
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Parc du Chateau (Chateau Park) – Parc du Chateau
is a wonderful big park, with sparkling views of the city, a waterfall,
cafe and a sizable playground. |
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Matisse Musem and Cimiez Park (Parc de Cimiez) –
Matisse lived in Nice for nearly
40 years and the museum has stuff that was part of his own personal collection.
After you've been to the museum, run around in the Cimiez park, a
lovely spot with stone walls and shade from lots of old olive trees. |
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Matisse Chapel (Vence) –
It's well worth a visit the Chapel of the Rosary (Chapelle du Rosaire) in Vence (about 30 miles from Nice). The spare white chapel is glows with iridescent blue, green, yellow stained glass windows – Matisse said that this was his masterpiece. |
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Colorful mini-biography
of Henri Matisse – for over sixty years, he not only painted,
but he made sculptures, his famous cut-outs, costumes and stained
glass windows. Charming collage style illustrations. (Picture book)
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Matisse grew up in a northern French town in gray skies. Is it a surprise that when Matisse grew up, he painted "red rooms, and flowers that danced on green stems." Original gorgeous illustrations, Matisse would be delighted. (Picture book)
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Pop-up biography of Henri Matisse, from "the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was life," to his paintings of pink oceans, yellow houses, and in later years, giant paper cutouts and stained glass windows. (Activity book)
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And read our blog post: "Matisse in Bloom" |
