Gare de Nice-Ville is distinguished by its grand, nineteenth-century facade featuring ornate balconies and a large clock. Designed by architect Louis-Jules Bouchot and inaugurated in eighteen sixty-seven, the building reflects the Louis…
WWII Resistance in Nice
This walking tour takes you through the quiet streets and historic plazas of Nice to reveal the hidden safehouses, Gestapo headquarters, and heroic battlegrounds of the local WWII Resistance.
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1. Gare de Nice-Ville
2. Hôtel Nice Excelsior by HappyCulture
The Hôtel Nice Excelsior by HappyCulture is identifiable by its nineteenth-century façade, a remnant of the Belle Époque era that defines much of the architecture in this part of Nice. Located at nineteen Avenue Durante, the building…
3. Nice Synagogue
The Great Synagogue of Nice stands on rue Gustave Deloye, identifiable by a neo-Byzantine stone façade that rises to a pyramid-shaped top. Crowning this peak are the Tablets of the Law, positioned above a central rose window. This building…
4. Mémorial Torrin et Grassi
The Mémorial Torrin et Grassi marks a site of public execution that took place during the Nazi occupation of Nice. Two stone plaques are fixed near the corner of the avenue Jean-Médecin and the rue Hôtel des Postes, commemorating the…
5. Masséna High School
The Lycée Masséna is distinguished by an ornate clock tower that serves as an icon of the school, overlooking the Promenade du Paillon. Built of cut stone from La Turbie and adorned with mosaics, the institution occupies a site dedicated…
6. Palais de la Préfecture
The Palais de la Préfecture, also known as the Palace of the Kings of Sardinia, is a substantial government building in the heart of Old Nice. You can identify it by its classical façade and its position near the Palais de Justice.…
7. Monument aux Morts de Rauba-Capeù
The Monument aux Morts de Rauba-Capeù is a thirty-two-meter-tall war memorial carved directly into the rock face at the base of Castle Hill. You can identify it by the massive central urn set within an arched niche, flanked by two large…