Old Nice - The second part of the puzzle

It's a good decision that I decided to divide the story about Nice into several smaller ones, because looking at the number of pictures and words about the English Promenade in Nice (and walking around the squares and parks), it was clear to me that one post would be a kilometer long.
This way, it's time for "Part Two".

The story of how I experienced the tour of the old town of Nice.

Several times we entered the old town from Garibaldi Square. I believe that the choice of that square was due to the fact that there are stations for all three tram lines and several bus lines that run along this part of the coast.

At the same time, it is a square with several great restaurants and was an ideal option to start (or end) our walks in Nice.
The square was once called Piazza Vittorio, because it was dedicated to King Victor Amadeus III, who commissioned its design and construction in 1773.
The beautiful monument on Garibaldi Square is dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary and patriot who was born in 1807 in Nice (at the beginning of the 19th century, Nice belonged to the Kingdom of Sardinia).
He dedicated his life to the fight for the unification of Italy.
But in 1860, with the military agreement in Turin, Nice was annexed to France.
The monument was erected in 1891 and depicts Giuseppe, looking towards Italy, the country where he was born and whose unification he dreamed of all his life.
Behind the statue, the eye is attracted by a strange combination of buildings - although in the same row, something sticks out.
Namely, this Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Chapelle du Saint-Sépulcre), is an architectural and cultural jewel of the square, and it is specific in that it is perfectly integrated into the very facade of the building, so if you don't look up, you can pass by it without noticing it.
Honestly, I only noticed her in the photos.
It was built during the construction period of the square itself in 1782-1784.
A striking detail when it comes to the church is the balcony with a wrought iron fence, which was used as a royal balcony to address the people gathered in the square.

The chapel belongs to the brotherhood of the "Blue Penitents" (brotherhoods of citizens dating back to the 15th century, who were engaged in humanitarian work, caring for the sick and orphans), whose existence and work I learned about when I wrote about the basilica in Menton.

The core of the old town can be entered from three sides.
Sq Square Garibaldi, by a narrow carriage way to the gates of the fort (which we did not use), by passing through the narrow streets on the side of the Promenade du Paillon from one of the beautiful gardens of this park or from the promenade itself.

When you enter the old part of the city from the Promenade, you pass through gates with columns, a polished stone pavement or a passage on which there is a monument to Charles de Gaulle, next to a wall on which there is a plaque honoring Thomas Jefferaon, the American president who stayed in Nice.

The entrance from the side of Piazza Garibaldi, we found in several narrow streets with small craft shops.
Shops that sell spices, teas, cheeses, meat and meat products look like they did 200 years ago, tucked away in the shade of old buildings.

Tucked away among tall buildings are various chapels, fountains or sculptures, each interesting and beautiful in its own way.

The view directed towards the sky shows narrow strips of sky, the only sky that can be seen along such narrow streets and tall houses.

How tall these houses are and how narrow the streets are, it became clear to me only when I climbed the hill above the old town, when I recognized where a tower or dome was located. From the ground, it was impossible to see the biggest dome on the cathedral in the old town, the space is so narrow...

When I think of entering the old town from the large long park, I also think of probably the most beautiful passage into the old town of Nice.
Passage/gateway, with stone staircase, walls of colored marble and gilded vault.

We inquired several times about a restaurant that we received as a recommendation from friends who visited Nice before, however, that restaurant was not in operation, so we had to look for another one (it was the Garibaldi restaurant, on the square of the same name).

And when it was snack time, we looked up Bart Focacceria, with a recommendation for delicious sandwiches.

While I was waiting in line for sandwiches, I looked at the setting and descriptions for the crests and plaques on the building across the street from the sandwich shop.
The first is the coat of arms of the city of Nice from 1811, which was awarded to it by Napoleon Bonaparte during the First French Empire.

And the second is the various architectural and epigraphic elements found in these areas.

When the sandwiches were prepared for us, since Take away is an option, we ate our sandwiches on a bench by the promenade.

Along the way, we found a pastry shop with the largest selection of ice cream, but this time, I avoided eating it.

In the old town, the biggest attraction is the Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate de Nice.

The not so big crowd allowed us to enjoy the beautiful details of the interior of the cathedral in peace.

When you leave the complex of narrow streets next to the cathedral, you come across a slightly more modern part, where there are buildings from the end of the 19th century.
The most impressive is the beautiful building of the Opera House.

Directly across from this building, there is the most famous pastry shop in Nice, Auer from 1820.

We were not interested in buying sweets, so we did not wait in line to enter the pastry shop, but continued walking around this part of the old town.
The sun slowly began to set, so after a short break on the plateau in front of the Palace of Justice, where there is an interesting sculpture with an olive tree, we came to the end of our walk in the old part of Nice.