Tourism Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Museums and monuments to visit

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  Eglise Russe
  Russian Church in the heart of Menton.
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  Musée des Beaux-arts - Palais Carnolès
  The Palace Carnolès, a former palace who belonged to the Princes of Monaco, is now a museum of art which has a priceless collection, the Museum of Fine Arts in Menton. Although the museum and ...
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  Salle des Mariages Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau was invited to decorate the Wedding Room in the years 1957 and 1958, following the request of the Mayor of Menton, Francis Palmero. Here's the speech he made : "... the ...
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  La Vieille ville
  Discover the old town of Menton, with its small squares, narrow streets that seem to form a cascade towards the sea. Is behind the ocher facades that live the historic heart of the city. Visitors ...
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  Musée de Préhistoire Régionale
  The Regional Museum of Prehistory will help you to discover a million years in a journey of 60 minutes. The building, built in 1907 by Adrien Rey, an architect Menton, home to collections of objects ...
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  Basilique Saint-Michel Archange
  The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel was built according to the wishes of Prince Honoré II of Monaco. He wanted a "big and beautiful church to Menton" and made this wish by the ...
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  Bastion - Musée Jean Cocteau
  The Jean Cocteau Museum stands in a Bastion of the seventeenth century in the hollow of the pier of the port of Menton. It is in strolling around that Jean Cocteau discovered this building who was no ...
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  Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Severin Wunderman
  Belgian-born American collector Severin Wunderman had the project of bringing a large part of his collection dedicated to Jean Cocteau and his artist friends to France. After several meetings with ...
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  Trophée d’Auguste à La Turbie
  The history of the Tropaeum Alpium (Trophée des Alpes in French, Victory Monument of the Alps) started two thousand years ago. It was built in honour of the emperor Augustus, during the 7th and ...
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  Musée du Terroir
  The Museum of the Earth has many tools, agricultural machinery and household objects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It shows the daily lives of Valdeblore and high valleys which were ...
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  Musée Matisse
  The Musée Matisse in Nice is one of only two museums in the world dedicated to the French painter Henry Matisse. The museum has one of the world's largest collections of works of the ...
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  Musée archéologique de Nice
  Established in 1960, the Archaeological Museum of Nice was originally in the ground floor of the museum today Matisse. It was not until 1989 that he was transferred to a site located on the remains of ...
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  Musée Matisse à Nice
  Inaugurated in 1963 in the Villa des Arènes, the Matisse Museum houses the donations made to the City of Nice by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and his heirs, i.e. nearly 600 works and 130 objects ...
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  Mamac
  Designed by architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal, the Mamac has the form of a tetrapod arc straddling the course of Spangle. Open since June 21, 1990, 9 showrooms are spread over 3 levels and about ...
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  Le M.A.M.A.C.
    Located in the heart of the city, next to the Place Garibaldi and in the extension of the Coulée Verte, the MAMAC offers a dive into the adventure of art from the 1950s to today. The ...
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  Le Palais Lascaris
  Began in 1648, the Palais Lascaris remained the property of the Lascaris-Ventimiglia family until the French Revolution. After significant damage, it was bought by the City of Nice in 1942. Four years ...
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  Chapelle de la Miséricorde
  This is the origin of the Church of St. Gaetan which served as an oratory to the Theatine Fathers of Nice. It was built in 1740 and belongs to the Black Penitents archiconfrery since 1828. This is the ...
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  Cathédrale Orthodoxe Russe
  Inaugurated in 1859 because of the importance of the Russian community living in Nice, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral is the oldest building of its kind outside of Russia. Inside, we find a richly ...
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  Musée des Beaux-Arts
  Purchased by the city of Nice in 1925 to install the Museum of Fine Arts, the house was built on the initiative of the Russian princess Kotchoubey in 1878, before being completed by the American ...