Nice Chateau cemetery - the incredible beauty of the graveyard, which lies on the ruins of the ancient citadel, which is the castle hill. The sea and the city are at the bottom, there is silence, and over the graves extends deep sky.

By the end of the XVIII century in Sardinia, Italy predecessor, it was decided to bury the dead in churches. In 1783, King Victor Amadeus II forbade such burial, and Nice, part of that time in the kingdom to seek revenge for the cemeteries. One of them was a wasteland on the castle hill with the ruins of an ancient fortress. At the time, there stood a one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean strongholds, even endured the siege of the Allied troops of the King of France François I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. However, the Sun King Louis XIV, the besieged the castle in 1706, turned it into ruins.

The cemetery is located at the place where part of the citadel was reconstructed in the XVI century. There are remains of the fortress walls, retaining structures have now become terraces on which rest the grave. Boasting breathtaking views of the city, the sea and the surrounding mountains.

Feature cemetery - its multi-confessional: it found in the last refuge Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, on the south side is the Jewish part (there is a cenotaph in memory of the natives of Nice - victims of the Holocaust). Impressive architectural appearance of the cemeteries: the oldest tombstones are in neoclassical style reminiscent of Roman sarcophagi, there are neo-Gothic chapel in the Ligurian spirit, a lot of busts. Magnificent sculptures, sculpted tombs do Chateau cemetery one of the most beautiful in Europe.

There are many celebrities are buried. On the castle hill lie the remains of Alexander Herzen: on a stone pedestal stands a bronze statue of the Russian revolutionary, writer and philosopher. Not far from his grave buried the great French Republican Leon Gambetta. Here - the mother of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a native of Nice Rosa Raimondi, founder of the brand "Mercedes" Emil Jellinek, daughter of Henri Matisse Margarita, writer Gaston Leroux.

2800 graves make up this city of the dead. His entrance pyramid erected a memorial in memory of two hundred victims of the fire at the Opera of Nice in 1881. The built in 1935 by architect Francois Aragon Chapel of the Holy Trinity, you can light a candle and pray for the souls of those who rest in this high hill.