Built in 1913 on the Promenade des Anglais, with a listed façade, a Baccarat chandelier made for the Tsar, and a glass dome attributed to Eiffel.
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Overview
Nineteen Thirteen
A hundred and thirty rooms and suites behind the most recognisable roofline in Nice.
Henri Negresco built this in 1913 and lost it within a decade, which is the usual fate of people who build something this ambitious. The architect was Édouard-Jean Niermans, who had already done the Moulin Rouge and the Hôtel du Palais at Biarritz, and he gave Nice a white building under a pink dome that has been the emblem of the city ever since. The façade is a listed monument. So is the Salon Royal, a rotunda under a glass roof with a 16,000-crystal Baccarat chandelier originally commissioned for Tsar Nicholas II, who never took delivery. The 130 rooms are individually decorated, and the hotel’s art collection runs to some six thousand works.
It is also a museum. The hotel holds a private collection of roughly 6,000 works spanning five centuries, hung throughout the public rooms and corridors. Ask for the tour.
1913
Year It Opened
130
Rooms & Suites
6,000
Works of Art
1
Michelin Star
Rooms
No Two the Same
Individually decorated rooms, period or contemporary, most of them facing the Baie des Anges.
Sea View Room — Le Negresco
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Individually DecoratedEvery room is different — some strictly period, some emphatically modern, none of them generic.
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Baie des AngesSea-facing rooms look directly down the Promenade des Anglais and across the bay.
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Part of the CollectionWorks from the hotel’s own collection hang in the rooms as well as the public spaces.
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A Listed FaçadeThe exterior and the Salon Royal are both classified historic monuments.
Experiences
Nice, and the Corniche
The old town, the markets, and the coast road east toward Monaco.
Old Town
Vieux Nice
The narrow streets and ochre façades of the old quarter, ten minutes along the front.
Market
Cours Saleya
Flowers and produce every morning but Monday, when it turns to antiques.
Art
Musée Matisse
On the hill at Cimiez, in a 17th-century villa among the olive trees.
Drive
The Corniches
Three coast roads east toward Èze, Monaco and Menton, at three different altitudes.
Walk
Promenade des Anglais
Seven kilometres of seafront starting at the hotel’s own front door.
View
Colline du Château
The headland above the old port, and the best view of the bay.
Dining
Le Chantecler, and La Rotonde
A Michelin-starred dining room, and a carousel-themed brasserie beside it.
01Le Chantecler, the Michelin-starred dining room in Regency panelling
02La Rotonde, the brasserie, decorated as a fairground carousel
03Le Bar du Negresco, for the aperitif hour
04The Salon Royal, beneath the Baccarat chandelier and Eiffel’s glass dome
Le Chantecler — Le Negresco
Location
Promenade des Anglais
Directly on the seafront, at the centre of the Baie des Anges.
On the Promenade des Anglais, facing the Baie des Anges across the road.
Ten minutes on foot to Vieux Nice and the Cours Saleya market.
Roughly 15 minutes from Nice Côte d’Azur Airport.
Under an hour east to Monaco along the coast, and to Cannes going west.
Fly
Arrive at Nice Côte d’Azur, the closest airport to any Riviera address.
Drive
Fifteen minutes along the seafront to the pink dome.
Arrive
Check in, then a walk east along the Promenade before dinner.
Nice
The Emblem of the Côte d’Azur
A pink dome, a Tsar’s chandelier, and six thousand works of art.