The Grande Corniche is the highest coastal road between Nice and Menton. Built on the orders of Napoleon, it follows part of the old Roman road Via Julia Augusta. Its panoramic views are unforgettable, especially from Le Vistaero restaurant and Be..

Heading east from Nice, the Grande Corniche heads up to the St-Michel plateau, offering views back over Nice and the Bay of Angels; to the front is La Drète fort. On the right a road leads to the Observatory of Mont-Gros , an international centre of..

This museum contains the largest permanent collection of works by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). His Biblical Message cycle consists of 17 large paintings depicting scenes such as The Creation , Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise , The Flood and ..

This museum exhibits works by the Nice School and the movements that preceded and followed it. Nouveau Réalisme is shown through artists like Arman, César and Spoerri, with pride of place given to Yves Klein (1928-62) and his blue monochromes. The ne..

Housed in a residence built in 1878 for Princess Kotschoubey in the Genoese Renaissance style, the Musée des Beaux Arts (Fine Arts Museum) exhibits European works from the 17C-19C. One room is devoted to the Van Loos , the most famous of whom, Carle..

Dominating the sea, this 17C villa, with its Sienna earth colour, houses around 30 paintings by Matisse (1869-1954). From dark palettes to canvases lit with the Mediterranean sun, then, after a stay in Morocco, to pure colour, and finally to the refi..

This palm tree-lined yet sundrenched avenue follows the curve of the Baie des Anges beside long, inviting pebble beaches. It was created by the English community in the 19C and is flanked by buildings such as the Négresco hotel, which has a superb ..

The Basse Corniche (lower coastal road), which has linked Nice to Menton since the 1880s, serves all the Riviera resorts: Villefranche-sur-Mer , known for its beautiful natural harbour ; Cap Ferrat , the location of the magnificent Villa Ephrussi..

The Moyenne Corniche, built between 1910 and 1928, runs from Nice to Menton mid-way up the mountainside. Less winding and shorter than the Grande Corniche , it passes through the remarkably-located old village of Èze , skirts the Tête de Chien (dog..

This museum was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and is built over the lake in Parc Phoenix. It presents traditional sacred Asian art by geographical area (India, Cambodia, China and Japan) – beautiful works whose minimalism and simplicit..

The cathedral was built by a Russian architect in 1912. Its six cupola with golden bulbs add a touch of the exotic to the Nice skyline and symbolise the importance of the Russian colony on the Côte d'Azur. The interior, in the shape of a Greek cross,..

This church is the former chapel of a college built in the early 17C. The interior is decorated with continuous frescos and bas-reliefs and has a profusion of details in its decoration. Fluted pilasters lead to a vault decorated with trompe l'oeil. T..

This chapel, built in 1740 from plans by the Italian Guarini, belongs to the Black Penitents. Volutes (spiral scrolls) and S-curves decorate its bowed façade and oval oculi. This church is an undeniable celebration of Baroque. Push open the door and ..

Vieux Nice (Nice’s old quarter) is a lively area packed with shops and small restaurants. Pastel-coloured buildings line the maze of narrow streets and there’s a Baroque church around every other corner.

The vast thermal bath area shows the high level of technology attained in the 3C: the Magistrate’s Baths feature latrines, a frigidarium and a hypocaust. Next to them are the East Baths, which the public used and are more modest in decor but similarl..

Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption church contains three masterpieces by Primitive Nice artist Louis Bréa : a Pietà (1475), a Crucifixion (1512) and a Deposition . The Musée Franciscain recalls the work of the Franciscans in Nice from the 13C to the ..

600 paintings given by Anatole Jakovsky present the masters of naïve art, with a large selection of Croatian art by Generalic and Rabuzin, as well as works from South America (especially Brazil) and France - Bauchant, Vivin, Vieillard and Nice painte..

Quite a lively main thoroughfare lined with plane trees and buildings with fantastic façades, including Palais Meyerbeer at no45 with wrought-iron work and cherubs, and the delightful neo-Classical Villa Abbo at no22.

A group of red-ochre Turin-style buildings with arcades surrounds a fountain with bronze horses in its basin. Avenue Jean-Médecin and its department stores lead off the north side of the square, while to the south there’s a view over the coach statio..