Nice claims more museums than any French city except Paris, and the municipal ones share a single €10 pass: Matisse and Chagall above the city in Cimiez, Yves Klein and the Nouveaux Réalistes downtown, Baroque churches in between.
Six onion domes in pink brick and glazed ceramic, finished in 1912 with Tsar Nicholas II's money for the Riviera's Russian colony and still the largest Orthodox church in Western Europe. Open 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00.
Twelve monumental Genesis and Exodus canvases that Chagall handed to the French state, hung in a low 1973 building he helped design, plus a concert hall with his stained glass on the Creation of the World.
The artist's personal collection inside a 17th-century Genoese villa in Cimiez, where he lived for years: 68 paintings, the Blue Nude IV paper cut-outs, Tahiti drawings and the working models for the Vence chapel. 10:00–18:00, closed Tuesday.
A Franciscan monastery holding three Louis Bréa altarpieces and a reconstructed friar's cell, wrapped in terraced rose gardens looking over the Paillon valley to the sea. Gardens free and open until dusk; museum closed Sunday.
A Ukrainian princess's 1878 Italianate villa on Avenue des Baumettes holding the old-master and 19th-century collection: Van Loo family portraits, Dufy oils, Rodin and Carpeaux bronzes, and a room of Chéret's cabaret posters.
François Aune's 1885 red-and-gold horseshoe hall, built after fire destroyed the wooden Théâtre Royal, seats about 1,080 for opera, the Orchestre Philharmonique and the resident ballet. Box office at 4 Rue Saint-François-de-Paule.
Four marble towers over Place Yves Klein devoted to the École de Nice: Klein's blue sponge reliefs and fire paintings, Arman accumulations, Niki de Saint Phalle's gift of around 170 works, plus Warhol and Lichtenstein.
The city's centre dramatique national plays French repertory and new writing across the Salle Pierre Brasseur and the smaller Salle Michel Simon, right beside MAMAC. Curtain is usually 20:00, with pre-show talks on selected dates.
The market Nice actually shops at, strung along Avenue Malausséna under the old rail viaduct: Tue–Sun 07:00–13:00, with the Halle Spada fishmongers at one end and Niçois producers selling blettes, courgette flowers and olives.
The 1892 iron-and-glass terminus of the Chemins de Fer de Provence, dismantled and rebuilt as a covered hall with a dozen open kitchens, a public library on the upper floor and a cinema next door. Open daily from 09:00 until late.
A brutalist art school and kunsthalle cut into a hillside in 1972: pebble-concrete ramps, patios and rooftop gardens built around an 18th-century villa, showing emerging artists in four exhibition spaces. 14:00–18:00, closed Tuesday.
Nice's former municipal abattoir on Route de Turin, now some 10,000 m² of artist studios, dance rehearsal rooms and festival offices, with open-studio evenings, vernissages and a courtyard bar in the old slaughter halls.