Nice Cathedral
Nice Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of Nice in southern France. The cathedral is the seat of the Diocese of Nice. The construction of the main part of the current cathedral's body started in 1650 and finished in 1685.Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: cathedral located in Alpes-Maritimes, in France
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palais Lascaris and Palais de la Préfecture.
Palais Lascaris
Museum
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The Palais Lascaris is a seventeenth-century aristocratic building in Nice, France. Currently, it is a musical instrument museum. Located in the old town of Nice, it houses a collection of over 500 instruments, which makes it France’s second most important collection after the Musée de la Musique de la Philharmonie in Paris. Palais Lascaris is situated 130 metres northeast of Nice Cathedral.
Palais de la Préfecture
Public building
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Palais de la Préfecture is a public building, which is situated 100 metres southwest of Nice Cathedral.
Église Sainte-Rita de Nice
Church
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Église Sainte-Rita de Nice is a church, which is situated 120 metres southeast of Nice Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cimiez and Villefranche-sur-Mer.
Cimiez
Suburb
Cimiez is an upper-class neighborhood in Nice, Southern France. The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast.
Villefranche-sur-Mer
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Villefranche-sur-Mer is a small beach resort and residential town on the French Riviera. The deep water harbour is home to Mediterranean cruise boats, whose tenders routinely disgorge several thousand passengers on organised trips to nearby Eze Village and Monaco.
Saint-André-de-la-Roche
Village
Photo: Jpchevreau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-André-de-la-Roche is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Until the 50s, in this small city there was a mountain with the shape of a steppe-pyramid, similar to ancient pyramids from old civilizations. Saint-André-de-la-Roche is situated 4½ km north of Nice Cathedral.
Nice Cathedral
- Categories: Catholic cathedral, minor basilica, cathedral, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Nice, Arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.69714° or 43° 41′ 50″ northLongitude
7.27574° or 7° 16′ 33″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Height
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
8FM9M7WG+V7OpenStreetMap ID
way 137356605OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=cathedralOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholicGeoNames ID
6949446Wikidata ID
Q1084011
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Nice Cathedral” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nizako katedrala”
- Chinese: “尼斯主教座堂”
- Dutch: “Nice Cathedral”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتدرائيه سانت ريباراتا”
- Esperanto: “Katedralo de Nico”
- Estonian: “Nice’i katedraal”
- Estonian: “Nice’i Püha Reparata katedraal”
- French: “cathédrale de Nice”
- French: “cathédrale Sainte-Réparate de Nice”
- French: “Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate de Nice”
- French: “cathédrale Sainte-Réparate”
- French: “Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate”
- German: “Kathedrale von Nizza”
- Hebrew: “קתדרלת ניס”
- Indonesian: “Gereja Katedral Nice”
- Indonesian: “Katedral Nice”
- Italian: “cattedrale di Nizza”
- Italian: “Cattedrale di Nizza”
- Korean: “니스 성당”
- Korean: “생트 레파라트 대성당”
- Lombard: “Catedral de Nizza”
- Piemontese: “Catedral ëd Santa Riparà ëd Nissa Marìtima”
- Polish: “Katedra w Nicei”
- Russian: “кафедральный собор Ниццы”
- Slovenian: “katedrala v Nici”
- Slovenian: “stolnica v Nici”
- Spanish: “Catedral Basilica de Santa Maria y Santa Reparata”
- Spanish: “Catedral basílica de Santa María y Santa Reparata”
- Spanish: “Catedral Basílica de Santa María y Santa Reparata”
- Thai: “มหาวิหารนิส”
- Thai: “อาสนวิหารนิส”
- Turkish: “Nice Katedrali”
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