5mn
Built between 1841 and 1843, the Salvy House became Royal Hotel between 1858 and 1875. Then returned home building, it continues to receive wintering, being known, according to the advertisements of the time, to be “in the middle of noon, and the best water in the city is in the house itself.” The building long remained the only building on this part of the shore. Its facades follow the rules of the Council of Ornato (Consiglio d’Ornato), precontaining a type of façade decoration. These urban planning regulations have made it possible to order the streets surrounding the port Lympia, whose house is echoed.
Palais Salvy, former Royal Hotel
1, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
It was built in several phases, between 1957 and 1968, by architect Jean François-Robert. It is representative of the seaside buildings of the period with the horizontality of its filtering balconies (between, here, by the vertical claustras of the stairs) and the blue color of the rolling shutters and tent canvases that participate in the general composition here.
Building Blue Rivage
9, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
The Vicomte de Siresme has a house on this hillside. Its land descends to the shore. In 1881 he built two small square pavilions near the sea, on both sides of one of the access portals to his property. They are destined for seasonal rental and in this sense adopt an ornamentation aimed at attracting foreign customers.
Villas Castor and Pollux
15, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
The architect Marcel Nestel’s work, this 1957 building, favours a symmetrical composition around lancet bays on the front door. Its angles in the south are treated in bays with glazed aisles. The cement imitating the basement stone and the travertine coating on the ground floor enrich the rendering of the façade.
Building Mamounia Residence
21, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
The neo-venietian villa of Vicomte Vigier was demolished in 1967, but the park around it remained. Designed by Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, the latter had in charge, at the same time, the landscaped development of Paris, in connection with Baron Haussmann. The vicomte Vigier has made his garden a renowned laboratory of rare plants where the rich winterers come to supply.
Some palm trees are considered the first specimens of the coast.
Vigier Park
23, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
Created in 1883, the nautical club in Nice was an important place for the foreign community and local notables. The current seat was raised in 1949 by architects Marcel and Georges Dalmas. The facades are partly made of irregularly carved stones to recall the walls of the old beam previously present on this rocky spur.
Nautical Club
50, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
The architect René Livieri composes, in 1963, a quart-de-cercle building whose balconies end at the ends in a rounded window. Embroidered and golden aluminium oils are representative of the period.
Building the pearl
25, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
Transformed into apartments around 1950, the place has been one of the city's most popular leisure establishments since 1862. The first seafood restaurant, the building expanded in 1876 and became a sea bath. It is famous for its two pavilions built on rocks, allowing to sit above the waves. Modernized in 1930, the complex was decorated with a slide (disappeared) and an elegant diver signed René Livieri.
Former restaurant La Réserve or Roc beach
60, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
A small seminar (secondary institution) was inaugurated in 1842, in this neighborhood then
isolated. It had nearly 300 students in 1885. The buildings host the Grand Seminary (the establishment forming future priests) from 1931. Recently, this building, one of the few in the neighborhood that has not been built for a holiday home function, has become a hotel in turn.
Former Petit Séminaire de Nice
29, boulevard Franck-Pilatte 06100 Nice
5mn
At the end of the road along the shore, a certain Dr. Le Fèvre built, around 1850, a health home, a resting place with sea water. The villa is thus one of the many health facilities that multiply at the beginning of the opening of tourism to the resorts.
Nice is then a climate station where poitrinary and tuberculous treatment comes. Afterwards, the city will transfer to holiday and leisure activities and many of these health facilities will become hotels.
Villa The coast
1, avenue Jean-Lorrain 06100 Nice
5mn
Signed by architect Louis Heitzler and dated 1928, the villa originally opposed its cyclopean support wall (now widely pierced by openings), its bays, loggias and galleries of the higher levels. At the stones of its base comes the rose of the colored concrete walls of this art deco villa with Mediterranean inspirations.
Villa Marichu
4, avenue Jean-Lorrain 06100 Nice
5mn
Robert Smith, a colonel and an English engineer whose career took place in India, retired more than two hectares of dry and desolate land in Cape Nice. It builds a house, as well as a number of adjacent buildings and factories that embellish the garden that it has many trees. Inspired by Indian buildings, the "Smith madness" - sometimes admired, sometimes mocked - becomes the emblem of the diversity of architectures imported by resorts. The villa is raised by its second owner, Count Melchior Gurowski of Wezele, who makes it a world-class place. She has since lost a large part of her original silhouette (closing her arcade galleries, alterations of openings...). The same is true of its colour, which originally seems to imitate the brick.
In 1927, a subdivision was opened in the park, served by the current avenue Jean-Lorrain.
English castle or Smith villa
29, avenue Jean-Lorrain 06100 Nice
5mn
It was built between 1885 and 1895 by architect Sébastien-Marcel Biasini from one of the garden factories of the Château de l’anglais. This explains its particular shape made of semi-circles imbended. The art critic Henri Laffillée finds the building of a “fancy so disinterested that one would have bad thanks to reproaching him a plan in which the prosaic preoccupation of the possible placement of the most indispensable furniture is certainly not intervened”
(" Revue de l’artancien et moderne", 1899, n°24).
Château de la Tour du Mont-Boron
15, boulevard du Mont-Boron 06100 Nice
5mn
The current building was the result of the intervention of architect Sébastien-Marcel Biasini in 1890 on an existing villa. He is notably the author of the wing at the loggia to the columns and the tower-belvedere. The house is representative of the “insane” of the coast by the electism of its elements: colonnade with antiques, ferronneries art nouveau and crête en zinc. Built on an abrupt terrain, it offers a rich composition of paths, bridges, support walls in false-stones as well as a fake-wood cement van, proof of the talent of the rocks. She's waiting for restoration.
Villa Beau-Site
5mn
The imposing wall of support remained long waiting for the building to overcome it. Finally, in 1911, architect François Aubert raised a villa called the Miramar Palace, which became a time hotel for travellers with an outdoor restaurant.
Palais Miramar
29, boulevard du Mont-Boron 06100 Nice