Monument aux Morts de Rauba-Capeù
Thirty-two-meter Art Deco memorial carved into a former quarry, hiding a bronze eagle found sealed inside in two thousand eighteen.
This guide to the Monument aux Morts on the Rauba-Capeù quay in Nice starts with what workers found sealed inside the stone in 2018: a bronze eagle, rings, bracelets, and nearly two thousand plaques naming soldiers from Nice killed in the First World War, entered in no plan or ledger. It traces the quarry this quay was cut from, the 1920s architect Roger Séassal who carved thirty-two meters of arches into it, and Alfred Janniot's reliefs of war and peace that still flank the entrance. Stand at the quay named for the wind strong enough to steal a hat, and look for the three thousand names cut into the stone in plain sight.
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