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Nice’s Historic Core and Grand Boulevards

Nice’s Historic Core and Grand Boulevards

Nice · France

14 stops9.3 km1 h 52 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Nice’s historic center, where a clock tower, churches, fountains, and public squares reveal the city’s architectural character. Continue through green spaces and ceremonial places before reaching museums, a manor, and the city’s Russian Orthodox cathedral. The route ends along the broad seafront setting of the Promenade des Anglais, giving you a varied view of Nice on foot.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Tour de l'Horloge

    Tour de l'Horloge

    A thirty-nine-metre clock tower rebuilt after war, with a history of repeated destruction.

  2. Chapelle de la Miséricorde

    Chapelle de la Miséricorde

    Nice’s Baroque masterpiece, built over royal salt warehouses and rescued from structural failure.

  3. Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate

    Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate

    A cathedral built after Nice outgrew its old hilltop church, and nearly lost its bishop doing so.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Carnaval de Nice

    Carnaval de Nice

    Carnaval de Nice, an attraction in Nice, France.

  6. Promenade du Paillon

    Promenade du Paillon

    A park built over the covered Paillon, reshaping Nice’s centre from riverbed to green corridor.

  7. Place Masséna

    Place Masséna

    A royal urban project became Nice’s geometric hinge between old town and modern city.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.