Face of Promenade can be transformed beyond recognition - say in the City Hall of Nice. The famous Promenade des Anglais is a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
"We need to enter UNESCO in a new dress," "Promenade needs a little face lift" - truly, French people speak about Promenade des Anglais as about woman.
Over the next five years, the municipality intends to update seriously one of the most beautiful bays in the world, according to the deputy mayor, "making the waterfront more comfortable and functional and at the same time revealing the identity of the city and the waterfront. This should give Nice even more elegance and dignity "
The basic idea of the reorganization - the harmonization of urban and sea landscape". It is planned to create a large number of green areas, repair the cover the embankment, upgrade lighting (in particular, all the lights will be replaced with energy-saving light-emitting diodes). The entire length of the Promenade will be planted with palm trees, which will separate pedestrian and bicycle zones.
Work will be performed in several stages, it is planned to split the Promenade in 5 parts (according to street names, facing it): Phocéens-Gambetta, Gambetta-Poincaré, Poincaré-Lenval, Lenval-Mossa, Mossa-Carras.
The total project cost is estimated at 16 million euros. Now it meets a mixed reaction of the public: in particular, because of fears that the abundance of green areas will "kill" famoust perspective of Promenade, as well as due to the high cost of the work.
According to the materials of Nicematin.com