A Walk Down Avenue Jean Medecin in Nice, France

The Avenue Jean Médecin is a street located in the center of Nice, one of the city's main north-south traffic arteries. In Niçard, it is officially named the "avenguda Jouan-Medecin, consòu de Nissa". It constitutes the city's main shopping street and is called "The Avenue" by residents.
The avenue runs north from Place Masséna to the railway, where it is continued by the Passage Max-Vérola passage, which runs under the viaduct carrying the rail line and Voie Mathis and merges into Avenue Malausséna, named after another former mayor of Nice. The streets leading north continue to follow the course of the natural valley, although the river now runs in an underground culvert beneath them. Avenue Jean Médecin intersects with several major east-west thoroughfares: Rue de la Liberté and Rue de l'Hôtel des Postes, Rue du Maréchal Joffre and Rue Pastorelli, Boulevard Victor-Hugo and Boulevard Dubouchage, Avenue Thiers and Boulevard Raimbaldi.
While the southern section of Avenue Jean Médecin is a tourist area, the northern section is more of a neighborhood artery. The same is true of the surrounding streets. On it are the main shops of the city, both for local residents and for tourists, and the Nice headquarters of the larger French banks: the Credit Lyonnais building, built in 1890 and designed by Sebastien-Marcel Biasini, the BNP Paribas building built in 1921 and designed by Charles Dalmas, and the famous branch of the Société Générale that was robbed by Albert Spaggiari in 1976. The remainder of the avenue has a cinema, the Basilica of Notre-Dame, opened in 1868, and the Nicetoile shopping center. Other buildings of architectural interest include the Belle Époque Riviera Building, built in 1913, six stories high and covering ten thousand square meters, which is currently occupied by Fnac and, somewhat south of that, a building in Art Deco style housing a branch of the Monoprix chain. At the southern end of the avenue is Galeries Lafayette, located here since 1916, in a building with a red ocher facade and arcades reminiscent of Turin.
From 2003 to 2007, Avenue Jean Médecin was subjected to lengthy construction work both under and above ground to install the Nice tramway.[8] Since December 2008 it has been almost entirely a pedestrian street, the exception being the tramway. At night, the center of the avenue is decked with thousands of blue diodes. They are a work of public art called L'amorse du bleu, by light artist Yann Kersalé, which was inaugurated on the occasion of the completion of the tramway. The avenue is served by three tram stops for the T1 line, from north to south: Gare Thiers, Jean-Médecin, and Masséna, and one stop for the T2 line: Jean-Médecin.
The avenue for many years hosted the flower parades of the Nice Carnival; the floats paraded down the centre of the avenue to Place Masséna. This is no longer possible because of the tramway and its overhead electric wires.

[@alicepantoja3372]

So nice walk in Jean medecine avenue.i am here always.i am living near this avenue

[@maurovinci2971]

Original Nike-Town During the Greek Empire in 500BC, the hill above the Old Town was named Nike, which is Greek for ‘victory’, making Nice the original Nike-Town. During its multi-century Italian period it was called Nizza, and since becoming French just 150 years ago, it is called Nice. The people of Nice are Niçoise, have their own dialect called Nissart.

[@maroumedia]

nice! we were there last november-december

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

maroumedia, there is talk of a second wave of Coronavirus happening then. Let’s hope not. I’ve already bought plane tickets for Greece in September.

[@vesnaorevic653]

It looks verry nice town.I would like to have one beautifull fleat and live there ennoying every day🥰

[@alicepantoja3372]

I am here always because I worked at acropolis and our house is at the back of Notre Dame Jean medecin

[@alicepantoja3372]

I am also passing by this place Massena here I have video of what you did

[@corailgris]

5:34 lmao at the bald guy with a rose shirt facing the camera...

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that. Thanks. I wonder what his problem is.

[@crownfield7303]

@@MichaelJirochVisualArtist Crazy people are everywhere, he maybe drank a little too much :D
Thanks you for the video though, did you enjoy Nice ?