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Designed in 1782 by the architect of Niçois Antoine Spinelli, this square marks the abhorrence of the royal road that connected Nice to Turin, then capital of the states of Savoy. The Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre and the Confrerie of the Blue Pénitents was built at that time. The decor of the facades in trumpet-eye was realized around 1800 and the balconies in wrought iron are an addition of the nineteenth century, except that of the chapel. Guiseppe Garibaldi, a hero of Italian unity, was erected in 1891 by Etex and Deloye sculptors.
The Saviour?
It's royal!
Garibaldi Square has not always been called this. Until 1870, the square was named in Niçois Vitour, in tribute to King Victor-Amédée III. The monarch works twice. It makes the road connecting Nice to its capital Turin and approves the drawing of the Niçoise royal square which is the culmination of it.
Place Garibaldi
Place Garibaldi 06300 Nice
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The ancestor of the Ponchettes, an outlet from the Old Nice on the sea, was the place of mooring
boats, probably since the Greek era. But King Victor-Amédée II sees in Nice "the
only corner of earth that we have to be known and considered by nations on the sea
foreign. Without him, we would remain trapped in our mountains and separated from trade
of the world". The desire to have a deep and well sheltered water port pushes them
authorities of Turin to send architects and engineers to Nice, to find a
location to dig a basin. Lympia's marshy plain is chosen. ♪
first plans and projects date from 1749 and are numerous, up to those of the engineer
military Nicolis di Robilant of 1781. The port will only take its final form at the end of the nineteenth century
century. The urbanization of the plain, close to the basins, is planned in the middle of the eighteenth century.
century, to build warehouses and buildings for trade. A street
Main connects the piazza Vittoria to the port (now Cassini Street).
The port district
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As early as 1749, a square with arcades was sketched, at the bottom of the port basin, on the planes of
architect Jean-François Michaud. Around 1766, The current ensemble, attributed to the architect
Jean-Antoine Scoffier was built between 1845 (palais Astraudo, west of the church) and 1895
(palais Malbequi, to the east). The square follows the requirements of the Ornato Consiglio. The church,
from basilical to antique, was completed in 1853. Its column portico is added in
1896. The doorways of the buildings allow unloading to cover the
goods for storage in large volumes of the ground floor. Upstairs
of the basement, opening also under the arcades, can accommodate offices related to the activity
commercial. The ceilings of the harbors feature crates painted with rosaces in
trumpet the eye, to the antique. A glance at their construction period, the Astraudo Palace
presents in central position the coat of arms of the Maison de Savoie, while the palace Malbequi
offers the RF monogram (French Republic).
place island of beauty
7 place ile de beauté 06300 Nice
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The new street of the port (now Cassini Street) initially planned with arcades, retains only its rectilinear and wide character. The buildings and those of the surrounding streets comply with the regulations of the Consiglio d’Ornato: floor of the ground floor bound by a berth of cuts or bumps, horizontal strips, windows to the triangular frontons for the first floor, bays to the right lintaux for the other levels.
Similarities are evident with buildings in the Borgo Nuovo district of Turin, built at the same time. Cassini Street is also made up of buildings reproducing the models of the architecture with fresco and deceives the eye in the Ligurian tradition: Orengo-Salvi House number 9, building numbers 17 and 24.
Ségurane Street presents, especially for building numbers 28 to 36, the unit sought with almost identical façade alignments.
28 rue Catherine Ségurane
28 rue Catherine Ségurane 06300 Nice