Activities
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Basilique Saint-Pierre d'Avignon, Provence
Collegiate church built between the 14th and early 16th centuries, its characteristic Provencal showy gothic facade and its richly carved solid walnut doors are a must-see when discovering old Avignon.
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Castle Hill, Nice, Provence
The hillside, often called “the cradle of the sun”, is a public park with unrivalled panoramas over the Old Port to one side, and the Promenade des Anglais and urban sprawl of Nice to the other.
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Cimiez Cathedral, Nice, Provence
Reduced to ruins since its destruction in 1706, the Roman Catholic cathedral sat on the hillside of the Château de Nice, overlooking the city.
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Fort du Mont Alban, Nice, Provence
It was built in 1557 by order of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, to reinforce the defense line following the Siege of Nice in 1543. Today it is one of the best lookouts on the French Riviera, and remains almost perfectly preserved.
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Musée Marc Chagall, Nice, Provence
At the foot of Cimiez Hill, this museum honours the talents and philanthropy of Marc Chagall with the largest public collection of his works, spanning decades of his life as an artist.
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Musée Matisse, Nice, Provence
The museum gathers one of the world’s largest collections of Matisse’s work, tracing his artistic career from his first painting Nature morte aux livres (1890) to one of his final works Fleurs et fruits (1953).
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Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, Provence
The museum is dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Its collections, belonging to various different movements, represent avant-garde works from the 1950s to the present day.
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Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice, Provence
The Museum proposes a naturalistic walk through the middle country and the coast to discover the "treasures" of the biodiversity of this territory known worldwide for its half-marine and half-alpine landscapes.
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Nice Cathedral, Nice, Provence
Between 1650 and 1865 the original 11th-century church was gradually replaced by the Baroque cathedral that you see today.
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Notre-Dame de Nice, Provence
The largest church in Nice and the first modern religious building, the Basilica of Notre-Dame was inspired by the cathedral in Angers. Decorated with stained glass windows dating from the 19th century, the building has two square towers and a sumptuous rose window representing scenes of the Assumption.
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Palais Lascaris, Nice, Provence
This Baroque-style palace was built in the early 17th-century for the richest and most powerful family in Nice, the Vintimille-Lascaris family. It has since been restored to its splendour and is now a museum devoted to the art and music of the 17th and 18th-century.
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Saint-Nicolas Cathedral, Nice, Provence
In the mid 19th-century, the Russian nobility began to visit Nice and the French Riviera, following the trend set by the English upper class. The cathedral was opened in 1912, funded by Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II, to serve the growing Russian community.
