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Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: 405, promenade des Anglais, (Museum of Asian Arts), Nice 06200
There is an impressive array of antiquity on display at this superb museum. Rare and unique artifacts preserve aspects of Cambodian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures with items such as precious stones and metals, sandstone sculptures, fashions, textiles, decoratives, and contemporary art.
Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: 33, avenue des Baumettes, (Museum of Fine Arts), Nice 06000
Remarkable collection of Italian and French paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Nineteenth century movements such as Impressionism and post-Impressionism are well represented via paintings and sculptures, as well. Housed in an extraordinary building, which was built in 1878 by Princess Kojchoubey.
Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: 164, av des Arènes-de-Cimiez, Nice 06000
Matisse called Nice home from 1917 to 1954 and this fine museum is located across the street from his former residence. The stunning 17th-century villa houses a remarkable permanent collection, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs, plus some of the furniture and possessions that feature in his...
Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: Av du Docteur Ménard, Nice 06000
An homage to the artist's full career, the museum gives pride of place to his 40 Old Testament gouaches. Designed to Chagall's precise specifications, the building itself is a work of art. Chagall also created stained-glass windows for the auditorium, where monthly concerts are held, and an intricate zodiac mosaic...
Cathédrale Orthodoxe Russe St-Nicolas à Nice
Category: Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: boulevard du Tzarevitch, Nice 06000
A Russian jewel on the Côte d'Azur, this turn-of-the-century cathedral is Tsar Nicolas II's tribute to a late Tsarevitch claimed by tuberculosis in 1865. A polychromatic masterpiece of brick and marble, the cathedral is lauded as a superior example of sacred architecture. Renowned for its hand-carved woodwork,...
Category: Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: Nice, FR 06000
Built in 1820, this magnificent walkway has become one of Nice's most famous landmarks. Flanking the Bay of Angels, the walkway is the ideal place for athletic pursuits or a leisurely stroll, with stunning views of the sea on one side and the lush mountainside on the other. This boulevard is a must for Nice visitors...
Category: Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: place du Monastère, Nice
A fascinating glimpse of the Franciscan order from the 13th century onward, this museum within a living monastery harks back to a time when the church was a repository of scholarship and art. Home to an abundance of historical works, the monastery juxtaposes the austerity of a monk's life with the artwork of the...
Category: Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: place Guynemer, Nice 06300
This dramatic monument in a landscaped square pays homage to the Nice citizens who died in World War II. The names of all 3525 citizens are carved into the large columns, which flank a funeral pyre with an eternal flame. Imposing relief sculptures and inscriptions make this a popular sightseeing spot and a place of...
Musée et Site Archéologiques de Nice-Cimiez
Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: 160, avenue des Arènes, Nice 06000
Artifacts from the Bronze Ages (1100 BC) to the late Middle Ages. At the site of Roman Cemenelum at Cimiez, exhibit features tools, sculptures, pottery, engravings, jewelry, coins, and the outside excavations of ancient buildings.
Musée International d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky
Category: Museums - Nice Attractions & Activities
Address: Château Sainte-Hélène avenue Val-Marie, (International Naive Art Museum), Nice 06200
This turn-of-the-century mansion is the site for a fine collection of "naive" art, a genre known as a forum for unschooled and untrained artists. Mr. and Mrs. Anatole Jakovsky donated this extraordinary ensemble of work to Nice in 1982. Jakovsky, a naive art connoisseur, provided more than 600 works that span 200...
