The Nice Carnival, the first international carnival celebration in France, is the top winter event on the French Riviera. The city of Nice comes alive in a fortnight of festivities : carnival processions, elegant flower parades, prestige soirées, rock and techno concerts, entertainment and fireworks will attract over 1.200.000 spectators !

The Carnival processions will display some twenty decorated floats, 300 "big heads" - pasteboard caricatures - and a hundred troupes of entertainers.