Cimiez Monastery and gardens
Guide
Photo: Eric Coffinet · Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
FreeChurchAllow 30–60 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A Franciscan church with a painted front, a terraced rose garden with views over the city to the sea, and a quiet cemetery where Matisse and Raoul Dufy are buried.
A brief history
Franciscan monks have lived here since the 1500s; the gardens were first planted as the monks' vegetable plots.
Tips
- Best time
- After the Matisse museum, for the view
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 30–60 min
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- The garden is usually open from about 8:00 to dusk (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Cimiez: A leafy, residential hill north of the centre with Roman ruins, a monastery and the Matisse and Chagall museums.
- Dress code
- A working monastery church: covered shoulders, quiet inside
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Partly indoors
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