BE CAREFUL OF THE FINGERS: They are passers-by who discovered the reptile with a powerful jaw and a sharp beak ul> The specimen of this spectacular exotic turtle species was discovered by passers-by in the pond of the Vaugrenier departmental natural park. It was finally entrusted to the “Village des tortues”, an educational and conservation […]
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The three polar bear cubs, whose gender is not yet known, were born between Christmas and New Year. According to the animal park, they are doing “wonderfully”. Three baby polar bears were born in Marineland Antibes, announced Thursday the largest marine animal park in Europe, which has housed since 2010 a couple of this species classified “vulnerable” as part […]
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Meteo France has extended the orange alert concerning Occitanie to Provence and the Côte d’Azur. Nine departments of the South and South-East are now placed in orange alert for storms and rain-floods by Meteo France this Wednesday 23rd October 2019. These are six departments of Occitanie : Aude, Aveyron, Gard, Hérault, Pyrénées-Orientales, plus the Alpes-Maritimes (on the coast), the Bouches- du Rhône , Var and Vaucluse . The departments of Aude […]
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Argentinean chef Mauro Colagreco’s French restaurant Mirazur was voted the world’s best restaurant by the British magazine Restaurant. Argentinean chef Mauro Colagreco’s French restaurant Mirazur was voted the world’s best restaurant by the British magazine Restaurant. Managed by Argentinian chef Maura Colagreco, this restaurant is located in Menton in southern France. The chef paid tribute, at a […]
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The organizers of the Tour de France announced on Monday that the cycling race will start in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) in 2020, as in 1981. The Tour de France 2020 will leave Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), announced Monday the organisers of the biggest cycling race in the world. 📅 27 juin 2020 🚴 Grand Départ – Tour de France […]
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Seized by environmentalists, the Nice Administrative Court suspended on Friday the permission to market two new pesticides. Seized by environmentalists, the Nice Administrative Court , acting in chambers, suspended Friday for permission to market two new pesticides US manufacturer Dow accused of posing a risk to the health of bees. Both pesticides concerned, Transform and Closer, already authorized by Dow […]
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WEATHER: The prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes has set the weather alert to its maximum … Watering crops, irrigation of golf or car washing is prohibited. Between 30 and 40 mm of rain from Saturday to Monday. Fields yellowed river at the lowest … The alert drought reached Monday its maximum level within the Alpes-Maritimes . “Les bassins de […]
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ECONOMY: The number of overnight stays in hotels and residences fell 3% … Unusually for tourism on the French Riviera . It’s the summer beating down the numbers. Following the bombing of Nice , attendance Alpes-Maritimes suffered a 10% decline, impacting the results of the activity. “Cote d’Azur down slightly” in 2016, informed the CRT […]
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The Gendarmes conducted thirty arrests in a few hours … The gendarmes at menton, are currently recording “an upsurge of migration flows”. Thirty migrants have been arrested, for one day last Friday and the following night, said an official of the Gendarmerie company of Menton. The area that they cover is the eastern Alpes-Maritimes. On the Eritrean origin, […]
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The shopping centre, opened five months ago should benefit from the arrival of the Irish company … Queues and crowds. The opening of the first store of Primark on the French Riviera, their seventh store in France, brought crowds on Friday to the Polygone Riviera. Five months after its opening, the commercial centre of Cagnes-sur-Mer should take advantage […]
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