Nice new tramway and the naked Apollo

Saturday, 5th May, 2007

The fountain in Place Massena has been reinstalled as the tramway nears completion. Ironically there was a tramway at the beginning of the 20th century, before the city was dominated by cars and the noisier motorbikes and scooters. What a nice atmosphere then, with pedestrians free to wander in peace:


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By the early 1960s cars had begun to take over the square - notice the fountain with its central figure, a naked Apollo:


Nice-Matin

Now the fountan is back:





But it lacks the Apollo statute which should be in the centre; but in 1976 it was moved somewhere more obscure, the entry to Parc Charles-Ehrmann, due to his nudity and local prudery of "les ligues de virtu feministes".


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Though why that should be a problem when the fountain includes figures like this I can't imagine:




We continued on through the old town for a cocktail or two on the beach:



But retreated to a covered area and a nice couch as it clouded over:



Then we went for a meal in Cours Salaya, where heaters made sitting outside possible even for M: