Promenade des Anglais
Promenade des Anglais is a seafront avenue in Nice facing the Baie des Anges. Lined with prestigious hotels, it is closely linked to the beginnings of international tourism and is among the city’s best-known urban places.
Public Art in Nice
Palais Nikaïa
Palais Nikaïa is a performance hall in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes, located near the Grenoble road in the Var plain. Built in 2000 and 2001, it is a large multi-purpose venue with adjustable seating.
Jetée-Promenade de Nice
Jetée-Promenade de Nice was an old structure built on stilts over the sea in Nice in 1882. Intended for recreation and tourism, it especially aimed to attract English visitors. It was destroyed in 1944.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nice, France, is an Orthodox church near boulevard Tzaréwitch and avenue Nicolas II. It belongs to the Korsun Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and is one of Nice’s most famous landmarks.
Place Masséna
Place Masséna is a central square in Nice, located between Vieux-Nice and Avenue Jean-Médecin, near the Promenade des Anglais. Planned from the 1820s, it is a major transport hub and a key site of Niçois heritage.
Musée Masséna
Musée Masséna is an art museum in one of the last prestigious villas on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The villa was built in 1898, later donated to the city, and opened as a local history museum in 1921.
Nice Cathedral
Nice Cathedral is the main Catholic place of worship in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Located at Place Rossetti in the historic center, it was built in Baroque style in the 17th century and designated a minor basilica in 1949.
National Theatre of Nice
The National Theatre of Nice is a centre dramatique national created in 1969. It was installed in buildings designed by Xavier Carnoy, later moved to the Promenade des Arts, and planned a partial move to the former Saint-François convent in Vieux-Nice.
Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée
Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée is a luxury hotel and casino at 13 and 15 Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. Its façades are classified as historical monuments and labeled Patrimoine du 20e siècle.
Place Garibaldi
Place Garibaldi is a rectangular square in the port district, on the northern edge of Old Nice. It is bordered by arcaded buildings, crossed by tram line 1, and lined with shops, cafés, and restaurants.
Palais des Congrès Acropolis
Palais des Congrès Acropolis was a three-level convention center on Esplanade Kennedy in Nice. It included a stage area, backstage, meeting rooms, and conference spaces such as the Hermes room and the Rhodes multipurpose space.
Villa Arson
Villa Arson is a public administrative institution of the Ministry of Culture in Nice. Located on Saint-Barthélemy hill, it brings together an art school, contemporary art center, artists’ residence, and specialized media library.
Monastère de Cimiez
Monastère de Cimiez is a Franciscan monastery on Cimiez hill in Nice. Built around the Notre-Dame de Cimiez chapel, it includes the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church and the Franciscan museum, which presents Franciscan life in Nice since the 15th century.
Musée Matisse
Musée Matisse is an art museum dedicated to the French painter Henri Matisse. Located in the Villa des Arènes in Nice’s Cimiez district, it opened in 1963 and presents a major collection tracing his career and artistic development.
Monument aux morts de Rauba-Capeù
The Monument aux morts de Rauba-Capeù is a war memorial in Nice, on Quai Rauba-Capeù along the route du bord de mer. Dedicated to Niçois who died in the First World War, it includes plaques, high-reliefs by Alfred Janniot, and a large sundial.
Chapelle de la Visitation Sainte-Claire
The Chapelle de la Visitation Sainte-Claire is a church building in Vieux-Nice on rue Sainte-Claire. It forms part of a complex with the former Visitation Sainte-Claire convent, a washhouse, and a garden, extending toward rue des Serruriers and the Château hill slopes.
Palais de la Préfecture
The Palais de la Préfecture in Vieux-Nice is the seat and residence of the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes. Once a ducal and royal residence, it has been extensively altered and is partly protected as a historic monument.
Palais Lascaris
Palais Lascaris is a former aristocratic residence in the old town of Nice, dating from the first half of the 17th century. It now houses a museum of ancient musical instruments.
Château Valrose
Château Valrose is a large historic property in the Valrose district of Nice. It preserves its original dimensions and includes châteaux de Valrose, a ten-hectare park, and university facilities, including the headquarters of université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis.
Notre-Dame de Nice
Notre-Dame de Nice is a Roman Catholic church on Avenue Jean Médecin in central Nice, southeastern France. Built in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style, it is the largest church in Nice and belongs to the Diocese of Nice.
Musée Marc-Chagall
The Musée Marc-Chagall is a French national museum in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. It is dedicated to Marc Chagall’s biblical works and presents seventeen paintings from the Message biblique cycle, donated to the French state in 1966.
Cimetière du Château
Cimetière du Château is a cemetery in Nice created in 1783 on the site of the old city citadel. It was established after burials in churches were prohibited. The cemetery includes a Jewish section and overlooks the city and the Mediterranean Sea.
Opéra de Nice
Opéra de Nice is an opera house in Vieux-Nice, inaugurated in 1885. It serves choirs, the ballet Nice-Méditerranée, and the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, and is managed by the city of Nice.
Russian Cemetery in Nice
The Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Nice, also known as Cimetière russe de Caucade, was established in 1867 to serve the Russian community and is the oldest Russian cemetery in Western Europe.
Arènes de Cimiez
The Arènes de Cimiez is a Roman amphitheatre in the Cimiez district of Nice. Built in successive campaigns between 70 and 80 AD, it is one of the smallest amphitheatres recorded in Gaul and remains open to the public.
Albert I Garden
Albert I Garden is an urban park in Nice and one of the city’s oldest public gardens. Enclosed by avenue des Phocéens, place Masséna, avenue de Verdun, and promenade des Anglais, it has borne several names before taking its present one in 1914.
Église Saint-Pierre d'Arène
Église Saint-Pierre d'Arène is a church in Nice that began as a chapel founded in 1762 near the beach on the present Promenade des Anglais. It later became the current church building and now includes several chapels, a reliquary, and the Jorge François solidarity space.
Louis-Nucéra Library
The Louis-Nucéra Library is the central municipal library of Nice, inaugurated as a library with regional vocation. It is named after writer Louis Nucéra and forms part of a complex beside the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Memorial to the Victims of the 14 July 2016 Attack in Nice
This temporary memorial site in Nice, France, commemorates the victims of the 14 July 2016 attack. It features a small stele topped with a fountain and a calligraphed heart in the Jardin de la Légion d'Honneur, with the names of the eighty-six victims inscribed.
Casino Municipal de Nice
Casino Municipal de Nice was a historic entertainment complex in Nice, at Place Masséna, built over the Paillon river between 1882 and 1884. It included gaming rooms, a restaurant, a grand hall, and performance spaces.
Église reformée de Nice
The Église reformée de Nice, also called the Saint-Esprit temple, is a Protestant Reformed place of worship at 21 boulevard Victor-Hugo in Nice. Formerly the American Episcopal Holy Spirit Church, it has been listed as a historical monument since 2020.
Monument du Centenaire
The Monument du Centenaire is a memorial commissioned for the centenary celebrations of the Republic in 1892. It was inaugurated by several French and local officials and later registered as a historical monument.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret is a municipal art museum in Nice, housed in a villa in Neorenaissance style. Its collection focuses on works by French artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church is a Catholic parish church in the Fuon-Cauda neighborhood of Nice, France. It is known for its original architecture and for its reinforced concrete construction, completed in the 1930s.
Église Notre-Dame du Port
Église Notre-Dame du Port, also known as église de l'Immaculée Conception, is a neo-classical church in Nice’s port district. Inaugurated in 1853 at Île de Beauté, it faces the Baie des Anges and is listed as a historical monument.
Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi is a monumental statue in Nice, located in Place Garibaldi. Created by Antoine Étex and Gustave Deloye, it was inaugurated in 1891 and later listed as a French historic monument.