The Auer Candy shop open since 1820 in Old Nice. Their first confections were candied fruits and preserves. as you can see, they have expanded their line in the past 200 years.

A cart selling herb plants and an olive tree. I don't know how fast they grow, but there are already a few visible.

This is a statue of the Greek God Apollo surrounded by other Gods and Goddesses. They are sitting infront of Aphrodite.

Also around the fountain are Hera, Posidien, Ares, and Hermes. If you are smart, you know their Roman counterparts. Tyler does. If you stand between Apollo and the frst raised statues of men, you will be standing on the sight of the greatest bank robbery in history. In 1976, a man named Albert Spaggiari used the sewer system to break into the vault. Two months later and 8 meters of solid cement presumed to be inpenetrable, Spaggiari found himself inside the vault. He had rented a box and set an alarm clock inside it so as to hear it tick and know where to dig. The bank was not guarded over the weekend because they thought the vault would never be breached. Spaggiari hired a wine and cheese chef to be inside the vault with them after they sealed it. He planned to spend four days looting the vault, but changes in the water level of the river forced him to be out in 24 hours. He collected upwards of 14 million dollars in the heist. Before he left, he posted many compromising photos of celebrities and diplomats on the walls that he had found in the vault boxes. Soon after, Spaggiari was caught because he had a big mouth and blabbed about his exploits. When brought before the judge, Spaggiari handed him a large folder filled with the details of his masterminded plan and implementation. The judge was so entralled with his descriptions that he neglected to se Spaggiari leap out the second floor window onto a car, which broke his fall, and get away on a motorcycle, never to be seen again. The money was never recovered and he died a couple of years later. The movie "The Italian Job" is based on his story.

These statues were erected where the Paillon River flows beneath ground. This square, Place Massena divides the Old Nice to the New Nice. Gustave, our Swedish tour guide told us that the statues were erected a couple of years ago. There are seven and each represents one of the seven continents. Kind of like our tour group, our guide was Swedish, we had South Africans, Peurto Ricans, Americans, and Autraslians. The colors regularily change, and if you look at them long enough you will see that two of them light up in the same colors for a short amount of time. That was the artists way of saying that the continents were carrying on a conversation. You can see it in the picture. Neat idea.