Rooftop of old Nice and St. Reparate Cathedral - stock photo

St. Reparate Cathedral Nice (under the invocation of St. Reparata), located in the Old Town (Vieux Nice) was built between 1650 and 1699, the year of his consecration. It is the seat of the Diocese of Nice.It is a listed building by order of August 9, 1906.It is in 1078 that brings Raimbald Rostagni Rome relics of St. Reparata and founded a chapel at the foot of the castle, in the carriera Draperium.The cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Pons says that the Holy Réparate Priory belongs to the abbey since 1185. It was the largest of the abbey by the amount of land he possessed around the church.The increase of the Nice population will siting of dwellings to the lowlands around the priory.A church was built in the early thirteenth century on land belonging to the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons. She is qualified church during his erect parish in 1246.Originally rectangular faces north, the cathedral was rebuilt on the model of the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome: a Latin cross, facing east, with a cupola, colored glazed tiles in the Genoese fashion at the crossing. The building is Baroque.Since its construction, several alterations were made: a bell tower, built between 1731 and 1757, was added, partially hiding the dome; a Baroque facade was plated on the original facade between 1825 and 1830 and then between 1900 and 1903, an apse was added to each side of the choir.The interior is also baroque has ten chapels: Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, the Crucifixion, St. Rose of Lima, Saints Alexander and Bartholomew (the crib that was temporarily installed it burned down in 1989 fire causing the destruction of the chapel and the loss of the relics of St Alexander, Roman martyr, who were exposed to remain under the altar), Blessed Sacrament, St. Rosalie and the Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Reparata, the Four Crowned Martyrs and St. John the Baptist. Until the late seventeenth century, the chapels belonging to individuals or corporations that had the burden to maintain them.The
St. Reparate Cathedral Nice (under the invocation of St. Reparata), located in the Old Town (Vieux Nice) was built between 1650 and 1699, the year of his consecration. It is the seat of the Diocese of Nice.It is a listed building by order of August 9, 1906.It is in 1078 that brings Raimbald Rostagni Rome relics of St. Reparata and founded a chapel at the foot of the castle, in the carriera Draperium.The cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Pons says that the Holy Réparate Priory belongs to the abbey since 1185. It was the largest of the abbey by the amount of land he possessed around the church.The increase of the Nice population will siting of dwellings to the lowlands around the priory.A church was built in the early thirteenth century on land belonging to the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons. She is qualified church during his erect parish in 1246.Originally rectangular faces north, the cathedral was rebuilt on the model of the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome: a Latin cross, facing east, with a cupola, colored glazed tiles in the Genoese fashion at the crossing. The building is Baroque.Since its construction, several alterations were made: a bell tower, built between 1731 and 1757, was added, partially hiding the dome; a Baroque facade was plated on the original facade between 1825 and 1830 and then between 1900 and 1903, an apse was added to each side of the choir.The interior is also baroque has ten chapels: Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, the Crucifixion, St. Rose of Lima, Saints Alexander and Bartholomew (the crib that was temporarily installed it burned down in 1989 fire causing the destruction of the chapel and the loss of the relics of St Alexander, Roman martyr, who were exposed to remain under the altar), Blessed Sacrament, St. Rosalie and the Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Reparata, the Four Crowned Martyrs and St. John the Baptist. Until the late seventeenth century, the chapels belonging to individuals or corporations that had the burden to maintain them.The
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