The Ave Jean Médecin, running from the Place Massena up through the center of the city has many of the city's main shopping and department stores.
The Nouvelles Galleries is the largest, on the corner of the Place Massena, in one of the lovely ochre-red buildings with surrounding arcade. Nouvelle Galleries has several floors with the typical large department-store departments. The store offers some bilingual (French-English) capabilities, and can deal with "tax-free" purchases for non-European visitors.
Half way up the Ave Jean Médecin, on the right, is Nice's modern "Mall": the . The Nice Etoile contains several floors of boutiques and shops, and the FNAC and Habitat stores. The Nice-Etoile parking, on the floors beneath the shops, is very handy for coming to town by automobile, especially on a rainy-day shopping trip. |
