How this list works
Twenty sights, each with its own page: what it is, why it is there, and what to expect when you arrive. No prices and no opening times — those change, and the operator is the only source that is right on the day.
If you have one day, the shortest honest answer is the old town, the castle hill and the seafront, in that order, on foot. Everything else is a bonus.
Reading the city
Nice divides very cleanly. East of Place Masséna is the Italian city — the old town, the baroque churches, the port. West and north is the French one — the Promenade, the wide avenues, the basilica, the winter villas.
Up the hill at Cimiez is the Roman town that came before both of them.
The Promenade des AnglaisThe Seafront The English Paid ForQuai des États-UnisWhere The Promenade Becomes The Old TownVieux NiceAn Italian Old Town That Woke Up FrenchThe Colline du ChâteauA Castle Hill With No CastlePlace MassénaWhere The Two Cities MeetCours SaleyaThe Market At The Edge Of The Old TownPort LympiaThe Harbour Round The Back Of The HillCathédrale Sainte-RéparateBaroque At The End Of A Narrow LaneThe Russian CathedralOnion Domes Above A French SuburbMusée MatisseA Genoese Villa Full Of Cut PaperThe Arena at CimiezThe Roman Town On The HillPalais LascarisA Baroque Palace In A Back LaneOpéra de NiceA Theatre Rebuilt After The FirePlace GaribaldiThe Square That Remembers The Other CountryMusée des Beaux-ArtsA Winter Palace Full Of PicturesMont BoronThe Forested Hill With The Long ViewPromenade du PaillonA River Turned Into A ParkBasilique Notre-DameThe Big Church On The Shopping StreetPlace RossettiThe One Open Square In The Old TownParc PhoenixA Glasshouse At The End Of The Bay
