This is one of uptown Nice which owes its name to the extraordinary height of trees that littered the hill with the caption said that the tops familiar tone heaven.



There are Henri Matisse museum and Roman ruins: the arena, amphitheater, baths and the Paleo-Christian Basilica.



The Nice Jazz Festival held in late July in the ruins of the Roman Arena Cimiez and the adjacent olive groves.



Nearby, the magnificent Hotel Regina built for the English aristocracy and especially Queen Victoria (on the advice of his doctor), where she stayed during his long winter tours on the French Riviera.



On the hill are also Cimiez Monastery and Church of the Franciscan monks since the sixteenth century. The church houses the Pieta, the Crucifixion and the Deposition from the Cross, three major works of the medieval artist Louis Brea.
The gardens of the monastery, very popular, home to a rose garden and an incomparable view over the city and the waterfront
The painters Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy are buried in the cemetery of the monastery, and Roger Martin du Gard, Nobel Prize in Literature 1937.
The Matisse Museum is located elsewhere in the gardens of Cimiez.



In the same area of "Three Hills" there is the park houses the Faculty of Sciences (Valrose).

Folklore and traditions of Nice

Cimiez is also the site of famous traditional festivals that take place in spring.
The first day of the Annunciation is called the Gourd.
During the month of May the festival of "Mais" has every weekend this month.


Nice traditional culture still retains the memory of songs composed by Menica Rondelly or Jouan Nicola.