Nice - Musée Mossa

On the Quai des Etats-Unis (no.59) is the Musée Alexis et Gustav-Adolf Mossa. Alexis Mossa (1844-1926), who conceived the idea of the Nice carnival procession, painted remarkable landscapes in watercolors. His son Gustav-Adolf (1883-1971) continued this theme; his early work is, however, distinguished by a surrealistic kind of symbolic universe.

To the west of this point is the opera house and beyond it the church of St François-de-Paule (1736, Italian Baroque) with a "Communion of St Benedict", ascribed to Van Loo. In the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville (city hall, a little further to the west) there is a representation of Orestes in front of the statue of Athene.