Cimiez (; Italian: ''Cimella'') is an upper-class

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Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million Southern France Southern France, also known as the south of France or colloquially in French as , is a geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin,Louis Papy, ''Le midi atlantique'', Atlas e ...

. The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of ''Cemenelum'', capital of the

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province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast. ''Cemenelum'' was an important rival of

Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million continuing to exist as a separate city till the time of the Lombard invasions. The ruins include an arena, amphitheater, thermal baths, and paleochristian basilica. Queen Victoria Vanity Fair 17 June 1897

During the Belle Epoque Cimiez became a favourite holiday resort of European royalty: Victoria,

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, and Leopold II stayed in Cimiez. Close to the ruins is the Excelsior Régina Palace, where

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spent part of her long visits to the French Riviera. From 1974 to 2010 the Nice Jazz Festival was held among the Roman ruins in July each year. (In 2011 the festival moved to the Place Masséna.) Also here can be found the Cimiez monastery and church, used by the

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friars since the 16th century. The church, with a baroque altar from the seventeenth century and a marble cross from 1477, houses the paintings '' Pietà'' ( triptych from 1475), ''Crucifixion'' (1512) and ''Deposition'' (1515) by the Italian artist Ludovico Brea. On display are also more than 300 documents and works of art from the 15th to 18th centuries. Buried in the cemetery near the monastery are the painters

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

and Raoul Dufy, alongside the winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature, Roger Martin du Gard. Cimiez contains a large Jewish population (around 20%).

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Matisse Museum

Nice jazz festival

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was also the place of famous feasts: “of the small gourds”... Nice Henri Matisse Upper class culture in Europe {{AlpesMaritimes-geo-stub

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