# Roots Earth in Nice: audio stories about 56 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/nice Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 56 places in Nice, France, in Europe. The Nice stories are in English and German only: Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian are in 126 of the 130 Roots Earth cities, and Nice is not one of them. The app needs no account: open Nice, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 56 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 56 places in Nice with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Sainte-Réparate Cathedral 2. Church of the Gesù (Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur) 3. Chapel of Mercy 4. Church of Saint Martin and Saint Augustine 5. Church of the Annunciation (Sainte-Rita) 6. Lascaris Palace 7. Cours Saleya Market 8. Rue Benoît-Bunico, the former Jewish ghetto 9. Place Saint-François, the fish market and the old town hall 10. Palace of the Dukes of Savoy 11. Place Garibaldi 12. Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre 13. The Ponchettes 14. The buried Pairolière gate fortifications 15. Nice Opera House 16. Castle Hill 17. Bellanda Tower 18. Castle Hill Cemeteries 19. Rauba-Capeù War Memorial 20. Port Lympia 21. The Old Convict Prison (Espace Lympia) 22. Place Île-de-Beauté and Notre-Dame-du-Port 23. Promenade des Anglais 24. Memorial to the victims of 14 July 2016 25. Hotel Negresco 26. Palais de la Méditerranée 27. Villa Masséna 28. Jardin Albert Ier 29. Place Masséna 30. The Marble Cross 31. Holy Trinity Anglican Church 32. Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral 33. Basilica of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption 34. Jules Chéret Fine Arts Museum 35. Nice Synagogue 36. The Excelsior Hotel and the Shoah memorial stele 37. Church of Saint Joan of Arc 38. Promenade du Paillon 39. MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 40. Louis Nucéra Library and the Square Head 41. The Cimiez Arena 42. Cemenelum: the Roman baths and the Archaeology Museum 43. Matisse Museum, Villa des Arènes 44. Cimiez Monastery, its gardens and cemetery 45. Excelsior Régina Palace 46. Marc Chagall National Museum 47. Fort du Mont Alban 48. Château de l'Anglais 49. Terra Amata Prehistory Museum 50. Côte d'Azur Observatory, Mont Gros 51. Gairaut Waterfall 52. Villa Arson 53. Libération Market and the Gare du Sud 54. Saint-Pons Abbey Church 55. Nice-Ville Railway Station 56. Place du Palais and the Law Courts ## Is there an audio guide for Sainte-Réparate Cathedral? Yes. Sainte-Réparate Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English and German. It is place 1 of the 56 Nice places in the app, at 43.70388889, 7.25388889. Every one of the other 55 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Nice Open Roots Earth and choose Nice. The city has its own map of places with all 56 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English and German, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 56 places in Nice, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 56 places in Nice, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English and German. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Sainte-Réparate Cathedral - Coordinates: 43.70388889, 7.25388889 - In one line: Nice's Baroque cathedral records the gradual shift from the fortified town on Castle Hill to the growing lower town. Its lavish chapels preserve layers of family, guild, episcopal and civic devotion. ### 2. Church of the Gesù (Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur) - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: A Baroque survivor of Nice's Jesuit college, this church preserves the imprint of its suppressed founding order and revolutionary political afterlife. Seventeenth-century settings frame later paintings. ### 3. Chapel of Mercy - Coordinates: 43.6957833, 7.2753583 - In one line: This compact Piedmontese Baroque chapel preserves its Theatine origins beneath an identity later shaped by the Black Penitents. Its oval interior unites exuberant eighteenth-century decoration with much older devotional art. ### 4. Church of Saint Martin and Saint Augustine - Coordinates: 43.6961833, 7.2763778 - In one line: This restrained Baroque parish church preserves a guild plaque carried forward from its medieval predecessor, alongside other objects older than the present walls. Paintings, ex-votos, a cannonball and Garibaldi's baptismal record turn the interior into an unusually tangible archive of Nice. ### 5. Church of the Annunciation (Sainte-Rita) - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: This compact Baroque church is known by three names: the Annunciation, Sainte-Rita and Saint-Jaume. Its ornate interior reveals how changing artworks and popular devotion repeatedly reshaped one old-town parish. ### 6. Lascaris Palace - Coordinates: 43.6977, 7.27725 - In one line: This aristocratic Baroque townhouse turns a difficult old-town plot into a sequence of stairs, courts and painted state rooms. It now houses Nice's museum of early musical instruments. ### 7. Cours Saleya Market - Coordinates: 43.6956, 7.275039 - In one line: An aristocratic promenade turned open-air market, Cours Saleya gathers flowers, produce and fish beneath awnings. Its long, colourful street reveals how Nice’s horticultural economy became part of everyday civic life. ### 8. Rue Benoît-Bunico, the former Jewish ghetto - Coordinates: 43.697253, 7.276858 - In one line: This narrow Old Nice street preserves the memory of a Jewish quarter made compulsory in the eighteenth century. Carved dates, an old bilingual name and the name of emancipation advocate Benoît Bunico reveal its layered history. ### 9. Place Saint-François, the fish market and the old town hall - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Place Saint-François unites a working fish market with Nice’s former communal palace and civic clock tower. Its triton fountain and Baroque façades preserve a square shaped by religion, government, trade and revolution. ### 10. Palace of the Dukes of Savoy - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Nice’s former seat of Savoyard power is now the prefectural palace, although almost none of the original residence survives. Its grand stone façades and state rooms largely belong to later French rebuilding. ### 11. Place Garibaldi - Coordinates: 43.696727, 7.275889 - In one line: Nice’s oldest large square is a Savoyard ceremonial gateway framed by ochre façades and deep arcades. Its Garibaldi monument and buried fortifications tie the square to Nice’s Piedmontese past and to the general born in this city. ### 12. Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre - Coordinates: 43.7005056, 7.2799083 - In one line: Built into Place Garibaldi’s uniform frontage, this eighteenth-century chapel resembles a civic palace more than a church. It remains the home of Nice’s Blue Penitents and preserves centuries of processional art. ### 13. The Ponchettes - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Two low arcaded ranges turn former fishermen’s shelters and maritime workshops into a bridge between Cours Saleya and the sea. Their roof terraces created Nice’s earliest seaside promenade. ### 14. The buried Pairolière gate fortifications - Coordinates: 43.7005, 7.27884 - In one line: Hidden beneath Boulevard Jean-Jaurès at Place Garibaldi, this archaeological crypt preserves Nice’s principal lower-town gate, a defensive tower, bastions and an aqueduct. Its walls reveal how fortification changed from medieval masonry to artillery defence. ### 15. Nice Opera House - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: This compact Italianate opera house rose from the ashes of a catastrophic fire in 1881. Behind its masonry exterior, a metal-framed auditorium gathers red velvet, gilded boxes, crystal and a mythological ceiling. ### 16. Castle Hill - Coordinates: 43.69781389, 7.28032222 - In one line: This wooded public park occupies the summit where Nice’s medieval cathedral and citadel once stood. Archaeological foundations, shaded paths and a dramatic cascade turn a deliberately dismantled fortress into a place of views. ### 17. Bellanda Tower - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: This white circular belvedere rises on the old footings of a tower that stood near the jetty protecting Nice’s first harbour. Rebuilt as a hotel annex in the nineteenth century, it combines a panoramic terrace with an exhibition of reconstructed historical figures. ### 18. Castle Hill Cemeteries - Coordinates: 43.580834, 7.123889 - In one line: These terraced Christian and Jewish cemeteries occupy the former Castle Hill fortifications. Marble chapels, angels, portraits and memorials preserve a layered history of Niçois families, foreign residents, civic figures and collective loss. ### 19. Rauba-Capeù War Memorial - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Cut into Castle Hill above the sea road, this immense stone memorial unites architecture, sculpture and landscape in remembrance of Nice’s war dead. Its local name recalls the fierce wind that “steals your hat. ” ### 20. Port Lympia - Coordinates: 43.6989, 7.28524 - In one line: Port Lympia is Nice’s historic working harbour, excavated from a marshy hollow and developed over generations. Its basins bring traditional fishing boats, passenger traffic, freight structures and elegant quays into one layered waterfront. ### 21. The Old Convict Prison (Espace Lympia) - Coordinates: 43.6949, 7.2862083 - In one line: This long quayside building began as port workshops before becoming a military prison, penal colony and civil jail. Preserved anti-escape fittings and sleeping platforms now share the former confinement space with a cultural centre. ### 22. Place Île-de-Beauté and Notre-Dame-du-Port - Coordinates: 43.6989, 7.28524 - In one line: Notre-Dame-du-Port anchors Place Île-de-Beauté with a monumental portico facing the harbour. The church and its carefully ordered square express both Nice’s Savoyard past and the French city that followed annexation. ### 23. Promenade des Anglais - Coordinates: 43.694523, 7.260107 - In one line: Nice’s great seafront promenade began as frost-relief work funded by British winter visitors. Its palms, blue chairs, grand façades and long public waterfront became the defining spine of the city’s international resort landscape. ### 24. Memorial to the victims of 14 July 2016 - Coordinates: 43.694523, 7.260107 - In one line: Set within the enclosed garden of Villa Masséna, this memorial names the 86 people killed in the 14 July 2016 attack. ### 25. Hotel Negresco - Coordinates: 43.6952389, 7.2631306 - In one line: An exuberant Belle Époque hotel with a pink dome, the Negresco pairs its grand Promenade des Anglais façade with an art collection shaped by Jeanne Augier. Its history runs from royal ambition through wartime hospital service to cultural stewardship. ### 26. Palais de la Méditerranée - Coordinates: 43.6952389, 7.2631306 - In one line: The Palais de la Méditerranée is an Art Deco seafront survivor with a hidden break in its history. Its two monumental façades remain, but the hotel and casino behind them are modern replacements for vanished entertainment halls. ### 27. Villa Masséna - Coordinates: 43.695219, 7.258944 - In one line: Villa Masséna is a neoclassical seaside mansion turned museum, pairing Belle Époque architecture with First Empire art and local history. Its formal garden and ceremonial rooms preserve the cultivated world of Nice’s grand winter-resort era. ### 28. Jardin Albert Ier - Coordinates: 43.695964, 7.268239 - In one line: Jardin Albert Ier is Nice’s early public link between the old city and the seafront. Palm shade, a bandstand, memorial sculpture and Bernar Venet’s black steel arc reveal layers of civic design above the Paillon’s buried course. ### 29. Place Masséna - Coordinates: 43.7006056, 7.2680194 - In one line: Place Masséna is Nice’s Italianate civic centre, where ochre arcades surround bold black-and-white paving. A buried river, a vanished casino, monumental fountains and Jaume Plensa’s elevated figures all contribute to the square seen today; its openness is largely the result of the casino’s demolition. ### 30. The Marble Cross - Coordinates: 43.6963, 7.26266 - In one line: The Marble Cross and the nearby Pius the Seventh column are two separate outdoor monuments. One recalls fragile Renaissance diplomacy through a heavily rebuilt cross; the other marks a pope’s two passages through Nice, the first in captivity and the second after his release. ### 31. Holy Trinity Anglican Church - Coordinates: 43.6972139, 7.2634833 - In one line: This neo-Gothic church was built for Nice’s established English colony as the city was annexed to France. Its quiet churchyard, historic organ and layered furnishings preserve a distinctly Anglican story on the Riviera. ### 32. Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral - Coordinates: 43.70388889, 7.25388889 - In one line: Five onion domes and vivid ornament make this active Orthodox cathedral an unexpected landmark in Nice. Built for the Russian colony, it also memorialises Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, who died in the city. ### 33. Basilica of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption - Coordinates: 43.70306, 7.26583 - In one line: Nice’s largest church brings French neo-Gothic architecture to a busy central shopping avenue. Its twin towers, Assumption rose window and long chapel-lined interior express both post-annexation ambition and a living community’s memory. ### 34. Jules Chéret Fine Arts Museum - Coordinates: 43.694583, 7.248889 - In one line: A sumptuous hilltop villa now houses Nice’s fine-arts collection, ranging from Bronzino to Dufy. Its marble staircase and former ballroom preserve the social world of the American family who completed the villa. ### 35. Nice Synagogue - Coordinates: 43.699811, 7.269336 - In one line: This active Great Synagogue serves a Jewish community with medieval roots in Nice. Its gate-like stone façade, original furnishings and modern stained glass hold growth, wartime persecution and renewal within one compact building. ### 36. The Excelsior Hotel and the Shoah memorial stele - Coordinates: 43.7033314, 7.2622905 - In one line: An operating Belle Époque hotel faces a pavement stele marking its wartime use as a detention centre before deportation. The ordinary façade and the memorial opposite must be read together. ### 37. Church of Saint Joan of Arc - Coordinates: 43.6972, 7.2758 - In one line: White ovoid domes and a needle-like campanile make this active parish church an unconventional Nice landmark. Its Art Deco design turns thin reinforced concrete into a sculptural, almost weightless composition. ### 38. Promenade du Paillon - Coordinates: 43.697025, 7.270336 - In one line: This contemporary green corridor follows the course of a river hidden beneath central Nice. Lawns, global plantings, play sculptures, mist, and a vast water mirror replace the transport structures that once occupied the site. ### 39. MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Four marble-clad towers and suspended glass walkways form a museum, bridge, and urban gateway above the buried Paillon. The architecture frames a collection especially strong in European New Realism and American Pop. ### 40. Louis Nucéra Library and the Square Head - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Sacha Sosno’s monumental aluminium head rises above a largely hidden public library. The seven office floors inside the sculpture house library administration, while reading rooms spread below and beside it. ### 41. The Cimiez Arena - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Low masonry outlines one of Roman Gaul’s smaller amphitheatres amid Cimiez’s olive trees. Built in two rapid campaigns, its surviving gates, stairs, and vaulted cells still reveal how spectacle separated performers, crowds, and officials. ### 42. Cemenelum: the Roman baths and the Archaeology Museum - Coordinates: 43.715783, 7.271833 - In one line: Three Roman bath complexes preserve the public heart of Cemenelum, once capital of the Alpes Maritimae. An adjoining museum connects the ruined rooms and heating systems to soldiers, roads, burials, worship, and everyday objects. ### 43. Matisse Museum, Villa des Arènes - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: An ochre Genoese villa in Cimiez houses the city’s Matisse collection. Built through gifts from the artist and his family, the museum traces his painting, drawing, sculpture and radical work with cut paper. ### 44. Cimiez Monastery, its gardens and cemetery - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Cimiez Monastery is a working Franciscan complex with a medieval church behind a nineteenth-century revival façade. Its art-filled interior, formal public garden and cemetery connect centuries of religious life with modern Nice. ### 45. Excelsior Régina Palace - Coordinates: 43.719, 7.2725 - In one line: This vast Belle Époque palace began as a luxury hotel designed around Queen Victoria’s winter stays. Now divided into private apartments, its long façade preserves the scale and ceremony of elite Cimiez. ### 46. Marc Chagall National Museum - Coordinates: 43.70917, 7.2695361 - In one line: France’s first national museum devoted to a living artist was designed around Chagall’s Biblical Message cycle. Its low modern pavilion unites painting, stained glass, mosaic, sculpture, music and Mediterranean planting. ### 47. Fort du Mont Alban - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: This compact sixteenth-century fort commands the ridge between Nice and Villefranche. Its bastions, drawbridge, cistern and artillery terrace reveal a carefully engineered frontier position whose military record was surprisingly uneven. ### 48. Château de l'Anglais - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: This theatrical Mont Boron villa mixes Indian-derived forms, arcades, crenellations and English emblems. Built for Robert Smith, a British engineer officer who had served in India, the villa is now a private apartment building and the surviving core of a once-vast coastal estate. ### 49. Terra Amata Prehistory Museum - Coordinates: 43.6978556, 7.289194 - In one line: Beneath a modern apartment block, this museum preserves the prehistoric deposit uncovered during construction in 1965. Its stone tools, animal remains and debated dwelling traces reveal repeated human visits to Nice’s ancient shoreline. ### 50. Côte d'Azur Observatory, Mont Gros - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Scattered across a wooded hilltop, this working observatory unites Charles Garnier’s scientific campus with Gustave Eiffel’s ingenious moving dome. Its great refractor embodies the ambition and engineering of late nineteenth-century astronomy. ### 51. Gairaut Waterfall - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: An Alpine-looking chalet crowns an artificial cascade built as the terminal work of the Vésubie Canal. Its stepped falls made civic infrastructure theatrical while sunlight and aeration helped treat Nice’s water. ### 52. Villa Arson - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Villa Arson folds an art school, exhibition centre, residencies and historic gardens into a terraced concrete complex around a red eighteenth-century villa. Michel Marot’s architecture turns the hillside itself into a walkable cultural landscape. ### 53. Libération Market and the Gare du Sud - Coordinates: 43.69583333, 7.27138889 - In one line: The Libération district brings a sprawling street market together with Nice’s former southern railway terminus. Its colourful passenger façade and vast glass-and-metal hall survive through civic rescue and imaginative reuse. ### 54. Saint-Pons Abbey Church - Coordinates: 43.72504722, 7.28315833 - In one line: Within Pasteur Hospital, this Baroque abbey church preserves a Carolingian religious legacy and the forecourt where Nice accepted Savoyard rule in 1388. Its single tower and convex façade shelter an elliptical interior. ### 55. Nice-Ville Railway Station - Coordinates: 43.705005, 7.261929 - In one line: Nice-Ville is a working railway station whose brick-and-stone façade marked the city’s transformation into an international destination. Its mid-nineteenth-century architecture still anchors the busy interchange known locally as Gare Thiers. ### 56. Place du Palais and the Law Courts - Coordinates: 43.695949, 7.271413 - In one line: Place du Palais is a pedestrian civic square framed by Nice’s neoclassical courthouse and the older Palais Rusca. 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