Nice - Colline du Château 
The first part of Nice to be settled was the Colline du Château (castle hill, 92m/302ft high), which can be reached by elevator from the shore promenade (Quai des Etats-Unis) at the end of the Baie des Anges. The area at the top has been laid out as a park and offers an impressive panorama (orientation table). The citadel which once stood here was destroyed in 1706. Worth seeing are the remains of two churches built one above the other in the 11th and 15th C., which have now been excavated. Just to the east of the remains there is a good view of the harbor below.
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Tour Bellanda
From the Colline du Château in Nice steps lead down to the promenade, passing the Tour Bellanda, a massive round tower built in the 16th C. on the site of the Bastion St Lambert, and in which Hector Berlioz composed his opera "King Lear". The tower houses the Musée Naval (maritime museum).
