“Rue de France” and “Marble cross”

This street is named “Rue de France”, as it led to the border prior to Nice’s annexation to France. You now enter into new Nice, so no more paved streets or italian orange facades! This street, parallel from the sea, is framed with numerous beautiful townhouses with harmonious sculpted facades. Wealthy foreigners, who fled the cold winter in favor of sunny Nice, lived here. The white marble cross here symbolizes the efforts of  pope Paul III during a congress, to try and reconcile 2 arch-enemies : Charles V and Francis 1 of France. They did end up making peace, well for 10 years only, but still… Thus they left us Congress street and this mysterious white cross that no one knows about, no one except for you!