Attraction
1. Musée du Louvre
The world-famous former royal palace on the Right Bank, home to the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and thousands of works spanning antiquity to the 19th century.
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2. Promenade des Anglais
Nice's seafront avenue curves for almost seven kilometres around the Baie des Anges, lined with palms, pebble beaches and the city's famous blue chairs.
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3. Castle Hill (Colline du Château)
A wooded hilltop park between the old town and the port, with free entry, an artificial waterfall and the classic view over the Baie des Anges.
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4. Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel's wrought-iron tower on the Champ de Mars, with lifts and stairs to two viewing floors and a summit 276 metres above the city.
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5. Musée d’Orsay
A former Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank holding the world's best-known collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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6. Musée Matisse
A seventeenth-century Genoese villa in the Cimiez olive grove holding nearly 600 works donated by Henri Matisse and his heirs, from early paintings to late cut-outs.
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7. Musée National Marc Chagall
A national museum created under Marc Chagall's wishes to house his Biblical Message paintings, with more than 400 works by the artist in Cimiez.
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8. Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris's great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, restored after the 2019 fire and reopened to visitors and worshippers in December 2024.
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9. Arc de Triomphe
Napoleon's triumphal arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées, with a rooftop terrace looking down the twelve avenues radiating from Place Charles de Gaulle.
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10. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
An onion-domed Orthodox cathedral inspired by the churches of Moscow, with a richly decorated interior of icons, frescoes, carved wood and a metal iconostasis.
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11. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre
The white-domed basilica crowning the butte of Montmartre, free to enter and open daily, with sweeping views over Paris from its steps and dome.
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12. Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate
Nice's Baroque cathedral on Place Rossetti in the old town, with a glazed-tile dome, an eighteenth-century bell tower and about ten richly decorated chapels.
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13. Sainte-Chapelle
A 13th-century royal chapel within the Palais de la Cité, celebrated for its soaring walls of medieval stained glass.
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14. Villa Masséna
A Belle Epoque palace on the Promenade des Anglais housing the Musée Masséna, which tells the story of Nice and the Riviera from the 18th to the early 20th century.
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15. Cimiez Monastery and Gardens
A Franciscan monastery on the Cimiez hill with a free 9,550 square metre garden overlooking the city and sea, a small museum and the cemetery where Matisse lies.
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16. Musée Rodin
Auguste Rodin's former studio in the Hôtel Biron, with The Thinker and The Gates of Hell set in a large sculpture garden.
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17. Jardin du Luxembourg
The French Senate's formal garden in the 6th arrondissement, with the Medici Fountain, tree-lined promenades and the famous green chairs around its central basin.
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18. Place Masséna
Nice's main square, framed by red arcaded buildings and black-and-white paving, with the Fontaine du Soleil and Jaume Plensa's seven illuminated figures overhead.
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19. Musée de l’Orangerie
A compact museum in the Tuileries Garden built around Claude Monet's monumental Water Lilies, displayed in two oval rooms lit by natural light.
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20. Promenade du Paillon
A 14.5-hectare park running north from Place Masséna along the covered Paillon river, with a water mirror of 128 jets and playgrounds of giant wooden sea creatures.
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