Castle hill is not high (only 92 meters height), and no castle there. This Park, which offers perhaps the best view of nice. In the name of the place depicted a very different story nice menacing, warlike, long sunk into Oblivion.

Until the early eighteenth century there really towered castle with seven century history that has withstood many sieges. In 1543 it was besieged by the armies of the allies – the warrior king-knight of Francis the First and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. During the Franco-Turkish siege were destroyed Northern fortifications, and the Duke of Savoy Emmanuel Philibert reconstructed defensive system. After completion of the work the city was besieged by the armies of Louis XIV, after which the Duke agreed to further strengthen the castle. Not helped by it: in 1706 during the war of the Spanish succession, Louis XIV laid siege to the fortress again, the castle was reduced to ruins and gave up after 54 days of bombing.

Ruins lay on top of the hill before 1830, when the king of Sardinia (predecessor Italy) Karl Felix ordered to create a Park here. In September 1860, the Emperor of France, Napoleon III arrived in the annexed nice and visited Castle hill. "This is the most beautiful landscape I have ever seen! "he said.

The view from the top of the hill is truly mesmerizing. Hence, from the special observation deck, on the right you can see the glittering Bay of Angels with its six-kilometer promenade, left the port of nice, filled with yachts and ships.

The Park is rugged, with a whimsical, meandering walkways, retaining walls framed with limestone. There are a lot of benches, small cafes. Dense forest (cypress, pine, hornbeam, oak) gives a lot of shade. On the site of the ancient tower roaring large waterfall, built in 1885. Among the greenery of the ruins of the ancient walls.

Here, on the hill, is one of the oldest cemeteries nice Castle. Built on the ruins of the ancient citadel, it includes the remains of the walls of the XVI century. About three thousand graves in terraces. Here are buried Alexander Herzen, founder of the brand "Mercedes" Emil Jellinek, a mother of Giuseppe Garibaldi rose Raimondi.

The hill you can walk along the shady alleys, funny white tourist train or arranged in rock free lift. Cannot be reached by only the top on the car: their movement in the Park is prohibited.