Explore Nice

Castle Hill is the rocky hill between the old town and the port of Nice, where the town's castle stood from the 11th century until Louis XIV had it demolished in 1706. It is now a 19-hectare public park with shaded paths, the remains of the castle and the old cathedral, a waterfall built in 1885 and viewpoints over the Baie des Anges and the harbour.

The St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral stands in a private park off Boulevard du Tzaréwitch, on the estate where the Russian heir Nicholas Alexandrovich died in 1865. Designed by Mikhail Preobrazhensky and built in 1903–1912 with support from Tsar Nicholas II, it has five onion domes and an icon-filled interior, and a crypt museum on the Russian presence on the Riviera.

The Citadelle Saint-Elme is a bastioned fortress begun around 1554 for the Dukes of Savoy to guard the harbour of Villefranche-sur-Mer. Bought by the town in 1965, it now holds the town hall, gardens and an art centre with temporary exhibitions; its museum collections, including the sculptures of Volti, have been closed for renovation since 2022.

The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a pink seaside villa on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat, built between 1907 and 1912 for Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild to designs by the architect Aaron Messiah. Its rooms hold her collections of furniture, paintings and porcelain, and nine themed gardens surround it. She left the estate to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1934.