The most beautiful churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Listed as a Historical monument, this church was built in the seventeenth century as a chapel to the then attached Recollet convent. With its curves and cons-curves facade, it is a typical Baroque church of that time in Provence Orientale. It has a beautiful altar of the eighteenth century in polychrome marble, choir, woodwork and pulpit in walnut from Senequier. It is located below the Lafayette courtyard, opposite the tourist office.

It is at the foot of the old village that the church Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, better known under the name of Sainte-Rosalie, was built in the 12th century. We first of all take note of its nave, inspired by Italian Baroque, built in the 17th century by the Chevaliers de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem. It houses a gilded wooden statue of Sainte Rosalie and a statue of the Madone, so-called "Mizraim", brought from Egypt at the time of the Crusades by the lord of Chabaud.

In a Neoclassical style, the building was constructed in the eighteenth century at the request of Charles Emmanuel III King of Savoy. The blue colour of the clock's dial is that of the Virgin. The church is listed as a historic monument since 1984.

On the front, on the lower cornice of the triangular pediment mounted by the architect Antoine Spinelli, is inscribed Societas sanctissimi Sepulcri, which can be translated as Société du Très-Saint-Sépulcre, the official name of the Blue Penitents. It is to this brotherhood founded in 1431 that this building dedicated today to the Italian Catholic Mission belongs. Its construction has continued through the centuries: the nave in the 15th century, the choir with its beautiful baroque decoration in the 18th century and the last finishing touches in the 19th century. Inside, the decoration comes from various origins. The paintings are dated from different periods while the ceilings are from the 19th century. Legend has it that a young monk named Martin Luther, who was in Nice, celebrated a mass there.

On the facade of this religious building built in 1820 appears an armed and helmeted saint Tropez. Inside, the saint's relics are kept in golden reliquaries. His painted wood bust is the principal ornament of all processions of bravado.

Built from 1675 and opened in 1685, it contains the relics of Saint Maxime, patron of the village. It contains retables in gilded sculpted wood, 1762, tables, votive offerings, a statue of Saint Donat in gold painted wood, from the late sixteenth century. The apse is decorated with a monumental altar. Antique stained glass, faithfully restored in the workshops of Fernand Léger de Biot, illuminates. The bell tower, of Romanesque style, is coated with multi-coloured glazed tiles.

Founded in 1585, the Brotherhood of White Krajina settled near the church Saint-Jean-du-Bourg, between Charity and City hall. The two-tiered façade, perched on the stands of ten steps, is crowned with a moulurée corniche surmounted by a clocher. Note the frise frise and the oculus under the triangular pediment. Still a monument of Roman inspiration. The Black Doubs Chapel is located in front of the DJC, but is now closed to the public, apart from its fragility. If the brotherhood was founded in 1317, the chapel will be built only between 1738 and 1741 by the well-known architect Antoine of German. It is firmly marked by classicism: unique nave, stone facade framed with pilasters, narrow and narrow niches, portal surmounted by a rectangular panel lined with palm trees and an bended pediment.

This chapel is now dedicated to art. And what strikes visitors most is its highly harmonious majestic architectural proportions... a wonder behind a fairly discreet façade. Exhibitions are organised there regularly. Suitable for large formats, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places to hang out in Vaucluse. You will also find the famous "Salon des santonniers" of the city throughout December.

The Sainte-Léonce cathedral, classified as a historical monument since 1862, is one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in France and one of the most visited sites in the region. It has 2 naves, Notre-Dame, composed of 3 cross vaults with cross windows and Saint-Etienne which has 6 barrel vaults. The baptistery, one of the oldest in France, located on the southwest side of the cathedral, has an octagonal room and a baptismal font.

Rebuilt in 1508 in flamboyant style on the ruins of a twelfth century church, it houses the oldest church bell dating from Var (1458). Its pentagonal apse is lit by stained glass windows of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Built on the ramparts, it is an architectural curiosity. On December 2nd, 2004, the municipality obtained the "Heritage ribbons departmental award" for the quality of work undertaken.

Classified in historic monuments, this th century church, built from two former chapels, is dedicated to Saint Grégoire, who was a bishop of Armenia. After his visit to the Pope in Rome, he stopped and évangélisa the city before he died in 404. Since then, the anniversary of his death gives rise to the traditional pilgrimage of the Armenian Church on the third Sunday in September. Old Renaissance portal, beautiful organ, beautiful chair, painted dome and a series of paintings of 1743 retraçant the bishop's life.

The old oil mill attracts many tourists from the onset of the beautiful days. Restored on several occasions, it is almost in its original state. It should be noted that it is one of the oldest in the region, prior to the Revolution.

Offering the place Garibaldi, the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre is the result of negotiations between the Augustins, the brotherhood of the Bleus Bleu and the city of Nice, which began at the end of the th century, the layout of this space (the Place Pairolière, the future place Garibaldi). Designed by Antonio Spinelli and completed in 1784, the chapel rests on three refends arcades. The real interest of the building lies in these:: it is a religious building in a profane area, an urban place. The chapel is accessed by a double-lateral double staircase, which is very unusual. Treaty on the monumental mode, the entire facade of the chapel is surprising and the columns committed support a entablature and a triangular pediment.

This former Benedictine abbey ceded in 1576 to the Nice chapter was erected in the th century by the nice architect André Guiberto to glorify the young martyr Saint Sante, patron of the city of Nice. Dead in Palestine, the young girl's body would have been placed in a boat and delivered to the Mediterranean. According to tradition, this boat dériva to the nice shore where it was hâlée on the beach by angels. This is the religious explanation of the name «Baie des Anges». The cathedral is inspired by the so-called Roman Baroque, with a triangular pediment and a tightly ordered and balanced facade. Construction had avatars with the collapse of the dome in 1658 and legal problems of acquisition. Its steeple is added to the 1824 th century and the façade restored in with the ornament of four niches with the saints innate merit.

The dite dome with its glazed tiles is shining in the sun. Inside, we admire the master-hotel with the glory of Sainte Sante, the balustrade of the marble chorus, golden friezes and stucco of artist Lombard Pietro Riva.

Joining the Right Street (also very winding), but this name comes from the Latin expression via direta so named because it constituted, in the Middle Ages, the shortest way to connect the North Door to the southern door of the city.

It was in 1825 that this originally most common building will become the first witness building of baroque Baroque thanks to its restored facade with style and framing of windows. The bell of the bell is inspired by architectural architecture with apparent bricks and decorative and glazed tiles.

Inside, the expression "rise to the altar" takes its full meaning through an inclined plan which leads us to the heart of the symbolic art of Baroque art: the most heavily grounded in the soil, which is colours and enriched in the amount of cieux (angelots, friezes, stuccoes and plume). The frescoes of the vaults were painted at the end of the Second Empire by the nice painter Hercule Trachel.

Built in 1780 according to the plans of the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vidone, this little gem of the Nice Baroque religious architecture is essential. Located on the Cours Saleya, on the right of the prefecture's palace, its sober facade does not announce the many sumptuous decorations inside. Faithful to the demands of Counter-Reformation, ornamentations flatter the meaning of those who enter the interior: moulures made of gilded stucco, marble columns, enchevêtrement of curves and plume, paintings of saints in ecstasy in of the clouds, crystal chandeliers, theatrical lighting through wells of light. On the sides of the choir, there are two frescoes carried out by Maria in 1886, representing the left of the Nativity and on the right the Dormition of the Virgin, themes very poorly treated in Western iconography. It should not be missed: wooden panels painted by the chore awarded to Louis Bréa (1450-1523) and to Miralhet representing the Virgin of Mercy. This chapel has been entrusted to the brotherhood of the black Penance of Mercy since 1828.

More known of the International under the name of Saint Rita Church, patron of desperate causes, it was built in the th century. Transformed into the th century in a beautiful baroque chapel, it is dedicated to Saint-Jacques (Saint-Giaume in International). The railings and the altar are finely decorated with marble inlays. The altarpieces, the casing of the painted vaults, the paintings signed Abraham Louis Van Loo (1641-1712) are noted.

A specimen of Art Deco, this building was built in 1926 to honour the Life (Don in Italian) Bosco, canonized in 1934. Works by architects Lefèvre and Deporta, its construction is resolutely modern by the aesthetic use of reinforced concrete. This technique allows great openings. Inside, stained glass windows adorn the large blue and yellow coloured frescoes, painted by Eugène Doucet.

The Saint-Barthélémy church has a number of changes in its architecture. She knows the capucine phase: expansion and restoration in the th century. In 1750, once again expanded, it must adapt to the growing population of the neighbourhood. Its façade is modified and a campanile of Italian Renaissance style was added in the th century. Finally, sold as a national property under the Revolution, it was returned by the Défly family in 1803.

Its architecture and decoration are subject to the influences of the modes, yet it remains intrinsically baroque. The sober interior presents a set of side chapels dedicated to saints (mainly Franciscan) such as St Clare, Saint Louis de Gonzague, Saint Antoine de Padua or Saint Rita. The main element of its ornamentation remains the triptych painted by International François Bréa (1495-1562): a altarpiece of the Virgin to the Child surrounded by San Sebastián and Saint John Baptiste.

In 1951, archaeologist Fernand Benoît updated the site of Sainte-Marie-de-l'Assomption Cathedral. It has two phases in its history: It is built in the th century, of Romanesque Romanesque style, small, confined with little openings on the outside. There is a nave with six spans, lower sides and side chapels. The main nave is separated from the choir by a central jubé. The ceiling is tannic and the arc is used in full hanger. The material used is dry (i. e. taillée) stone. Then the cathedral was rebuilt in the th century on the ruins of the old, according to the Gothic style. Although this style was never distributed in Provence, this Gothic building is described as the use of the warhead arch. It adds a campanile that serves as a warehouse.

This church, neo-Gothic, is the largest in Nice. It was built in 1864, immediately following the link between Nice and France. The plans were designed by the Lenormand architect. The lateral naves are extended by a ambulatory with striking chapels.

It borders on the south side, belongs to the brotherhood of Blue Krajina, which explains the blue dominantes of its baroque decor. The church Saint-Martin-Saint-Augustin, Place Saint-Augustin, (in the Middle Ages, many churches were consecrated simultaneously to two saints), the first version of which was built in 1510, is the oldest in Nice. It is said that the young Martin Luther monk from Nice would have celebrated a mass, well before the Reform. Garibaldi was named (it was his neighborhood). Its construction has spread over the centuries: The nave in the th, the choir, with its beautiful baroque decoration in the xviiith century, the last finishing in the th. In the choir, on the left, we can admire the altarpiece and pietà of Louis Bréa,

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Saint Devote is the patron and patron of the Principality. The Roman emperor Diocletian reigned from 284 to 305. It was he who created the reign system to four (tétrarchie) to better manage the vast empire, leading the last large and bloody wave of persecution against followers of the new religion of Christianity.

Corsica saint Devote was one of his victims towards the end of his reign, around 304. Recognized as martyrdom later, a legend perpetuates his memory: fearing that his body is soiled, his entourage manages to recover his remains and put her in a boat… who fails on a beach in Monaco. She was later buried at the foot of the Rock, the base of a future chapel (th century).

The building was entrusted to the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons and was bought by Lord Honoré Grimaldi I to become a property of the Principality (1536). Several successive churches were erected on the site. The current church dates back to 1870 (Prince Charles III reign). Every year, we commemorate the miraculous return of the holy man by seizing a boat on the of the church.