Monuments and churches
Nice is distinguished by a wide variety of architectural styles, originating from different periods.
Over the centuries of its somewhat turbulent history, Nice has retained the imprint of each age ...
What we now refer to as the Old City represented until the 18th century the entire urban area. With its Baroque-style palaces and churches, colourful facades and narrow streets, the old city is now part of a heritage preservation scheme.
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Monuments and churches
This former hotel was built in 1896 for English aristocrats and essentially Queen Victoria; construction took only eighteen months.…
The largest church in Nice and the first modern religious structure, the basilica of Notre-Dame was built after Nice became …
On Quai Rauba Capeu which links Promenade des Anglais to the Port, a most unusual sundial gives the time thanks …
The Saint Nicolas Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Nice was built in the early 20th century near a monument to the …
This church, which became the Cathedral in the 16th century, is the largest sanctuary in Old Nice.…
Built after 1740 and designed by the famous architect Bernardo Vittone, the chapel has an elliptical nave, with semicircular side …
Raoul Dufy, Roger Martin du Gard and Henri Matisse are buried in this cemetery which has many surprising monuments in …
The “Castle Hill” was the site chosen by the Phocaean Greeks to set up their trading-post and thus found the …
Built on the ramparts dismantled in the early 18th century, Cours Saleya, a pedestrian area in the heart of Old …