For two days, on September 17th and 18th, the European Heritage Days 2016 will open the doors of Nice’s most beautiful monuments.
An opportunity for the rich secular or sacred, institutional or traditional heritage. A wonderful program of tours, visits to sites usually closed to the public, concerts, and lectures.
Each year, Nice makes the Heritage Days a highlight of the discovery of its rich secular or sacred, institutional or traditional heritage and offers a program of tours, visits to sites usually closed to the public, concerts, and lectures.
Some highlights…
The wonderful museum programs starting with the new museography of the Terra Amata site to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the site’s excavation and the 40th anniversary of the museum’s public opening. A new playful and modern presentation that exposes the life of the first inhabitants of Nice.
The Fort of Mont-Alban, the Palais de la Préfecture will also be open to the public and the City Hall, always very popular with the public, who will be able to discover the renovations: the Mayor’s office, the President of the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur’s office, the Jules Chéret room and the fresco room.
For the first time, the Palais de Justice will open its doors this Saturday.
The Department also participates with these historic sites, such as the Palais des Rois Sardes with the presentation of the missions and activities of the Departmental Archives, exhibitions, and lectures.
The Fort de la Drète on the Grande Corniche with the opportunity for military history enthusiasts to discover this site and its magnificent natural setting. Specialists in the history of fortifications await them there.
Other less institutional places will also open their doors.
The firefighters at the Magnan fire station have also chosen to participate in the event by offering a guided tour of the station. This is an opportunity to discover the Magnan station, which today houses the largest Rescue Center in the Alpes-Maritimes, as well as the headquarters of the Southern Territorial Group.
Allianz Riviera and the National Museum of Sport will offer the opportunity to discover or rediscover the backstage of the Allianz Riviera and also visit the permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as the “Gooal! European Rendez-vous” exhibition.
Moreover, guided tours of the exceptional reserves of the Museum, which holds more than 45,000 objects and 400,000 documents, and the presentation of objects collected throughout France before, during, and after Euro 2016.
Villa Arson, a monument of the 20th century, will allow a discovery of the site, its history, its architecture, and today’s Villa Arson through the missions of its superior art school and contemporary art center.
Self-guided and signposted discovery tours of the entire site and architectural achievements: gardens and terraces, media library, contemporary works installed in situ… and the current exhibition:
