Musée Franciscain - Eglise et Monastère de Cimiez

An evocation of the life of Franciscan friars in Nice from the 13th to the 18th century, an illustration of Saint Francis of Assisi’s spiritual and social message, paintings, sculptures, prints, illuminated manuscripts, murals, chapel and reconstructed cells…
The cross in the square is a copy of the original, which is in the church and dates from 1477.
The marble cross 5.80 metres high bears several finely carved figures including the Seraph described in Saint Francis of Assisi’s visions.