Historical landmark
Place Rossetti
Pl. Rossetti, 06300 Nice
Sunlit baroque square with a martyred saint's cathedral and a nobleman's gifted land at its heart.
This guide to Place Rossetti opens with a question: why would fishermen believe angels piloted a boat into this bay? It traces the answer to the legend of Reparata, a teenage martyr in Roman Palestine who tradition says survived fire and poison before being beheaded, her body later found drifting ashore here unmanned. Nice adopted her as its patron and raised the baroque cathedral beside you, its dedication finished in 1699.
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