Things to do in Nice
Top sights and attractions to build your days around once you know when to go.
Allianz Riviera
Allianz Riviera is a multi-use stadium in Nice, France, mostly used for football matches of host OGC Nice and occasionally for home matches of rugby union club Toulon. The stadium has a capacity of 36,178 people and replaced the city's former stadium Stade Municipal du Ray. Construction started in 2011 and was completed in two years. The stadium opened on 22 September 2013 with a match between OGC Nice and Valenciennes.
Tropaeum Alpium
The Tropaeum Alpium, is a Roman victory monument (tropaeum) erected at La Turbie in the Alpes-Maritimes, above Monaco. It commemorated the subjection of the Alpine peoples to the imperium of the Roman people under Augustus. Its dedication is dated by the inscription transmitted by Pliny the Elder to 7/6 BC, while the military operations it recorded had probably taken place between 25 and 14 BC. The monument stood at the highest point of the Via Julia Augusta as it crossed the Alps, at the confines of Italy and Gaul, and is known today chiefly through the heavily restored form given to its ruins in the early 20th century.
Stade du Ray
Stade Municipal du Ray was a football stadium in Nice, France. It was the home of OGC Nice since it opened in 1927 and had a capacity of 17,415. It was conveniently located in the centre of the city, but suffered from its old structure and small capacity. The red and black colored stadium was mostly used for football. A new stadium was planned to be built in the Lingostière side, but the project was cancelled in 2006. The stadium was replaced by the Allianz Riviera in September 2013.
Nice Cathedral
Nice Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of Nice in southern France.
Notre-Dame de Nice
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice is a Roman Catholic basilica situated on the Avenue Jean Médecin in the centre of Nice, in France. It is built in the Neo-Gothic architectural tradition.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice in Nice, France at 33 av. des Baumettes was built in the former private mansion built in 1878 by the Russian Princess, Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey. Named for the artist Jules Chéret who lived and worked in Nice during his final years, the museum opened as the "Palais des Arts Jules Chéret" on 7 January 1928.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice
The St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Nice is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral located in the French city of Nice. Property of the Russian Federation, it is recognized as a national monument of France, and it currently belongs to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. It is the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Western Europe.
musée Marc-Chagall
The Marc Chagall National Museum is a French national museum dedicated to the work of painter Marc Chagall – particularly his works inspired by religion – located in Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Terra Amata
Terra Amata is an archaeological site in open air located on the slopes of Mount Boron in Nice, France at a level 26 meters (85 ft) above the current sea level of the Mediterranean. It was discovered and excavated in 1966 by Henry de Lumley. The site, originally on a prehistoric beach, contained tools of the Lower Paleolithic period, dated to about 400,000 BCE, as well as traces of some of the earliest domestication of fire in Europe. The site now lies beneath an apartment building and a museum of prehistoric Nice, where some of the objects discovered are on display.
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is a French seaside villa located at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. Designed by the French architect Aaron Messiah, it was built between 1907 and 1912 by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934).
Musée Matisse
The Musée Matisse in Nice is a municipal museum devoted to the work of French painter Henri Matisse. It gathers one of the world's largest collections of his works, tracing his artistic beginnings and his evolution through his last works. The museum, which opened in 1963, is located in the Villa des Arènes, a seventeenth-century villa in the neighborhood of Cimiez.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church
The Church of Saint Joan of Arc is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Nice, France. Noticeable for its original architecture, the church is dedicated to Joan of Arc.
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