The Saint-Pierre-d'Arène church dates from the 18th century. In 1762, the parish priest Don Massot created a chapel dedicated to Saint Peter. In 1814, the chapel was consecrated as a church open to worship and the sacraments. On 18 January 1914, an extension was undertaken which resulted in the present church. The church was finally inaugurated on 23 January 1938, although it was still unfinished.
The cathedral, designed to meet the needs of the Russian colony, was built in 1903 by Préobrajenski, professor of architecture at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, inspired by the five-dome churches of the late 16th century in the Moscow region.
The realization is made possible by the generosity of Tsar Nicholas II, who authorized the construction of the villa Bermond, his personal property, in the park. The domes of the cathedral, consecrated on December 18, 1912, are made of reinforced concrete. The iconostasis and several icons are the work of the painter Leonid Pianovsky. Restoration work was carried out on the roofs and facades of the cathedral between 1989 and 1992. Near the cathedral, a chapel commemorating Tsarévitch Nicholas Alexandrovich, who died of tuberculosis in 1865, was built in Byzantine style from 1867 to 1868.
The Saint-Philippe-Néri chapel, also known as the Saint-Philippe church, was completed in 1612, as can be seen on the pediment. It was built by a wealthy man from Nice, Ponce Ceva, who was also responsible for the establishment of the first Jesuit college in Nice in 1607.
This church was built to replace the previous one which fell into disrepair between 1764 and 1778 by the Italian architect Antoine Spinelli at the request of Duke Charles-Emmanuel III of Savoy. The neo-classical church has a rich interior decor, which the you can see as soon as you enter the baroque nave.
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