page_title: Nice
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: Nice / Sport
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: L'Allianz Riviera le 22 septembre 2013.
context_page_description: Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million on an area of 721 km². Located in the French Riviera, on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille. Nice is approximately 13 kilometres from the principality of Monaco and 30 kilometres from the French-Italian border. Nice's airport serves as a gateway to the region.
  The city is nicknamed Nice la Belle, which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912. The area of today's Nice contains Terra Amata, an archaeological site which displays evidence of a very early use of fire 380,000 years ago. Around 350 BC, Greeks of Marseille founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, the goddess of victory. Through the ages, the town has changed hands many times.
context_section_description: The city's major football club is OGC Nice. They play in Ligue 1 (the top division in France).
  The Olympic Nice swimming club (French: Olympic Nice Natation) is also notable; Camille Muffat and Yannick Agnel used to train there for example.
  Nice hosts the finish of the annual cycling race Paris–Nice.
  The Nice Hockey Élite club play in Ligue Magnus, the top men's division of the French ice hockey pyramid.
  The Stade Niçois is a rugby club playing in Fédérale 1.
caption: Allianz Riviera
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