Nice, France
1 Place Jacques Toja
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+33 492004190
Very interesting and well-preserved site. Helpful guide.
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Well worth it. Note that the tour is in French.
To visit, you must book tickets (you can do so on their website). The group size is up to 15, but we only had 6 in our group. At your designated time, meet at the crypt elevator area in Square Toja. Close to the time, someone will come up the elevator or stairs next to it to bring you down. There is no need to be early, just be on time. Clothing tips: we were in shorts and short sleeves and were fine for the 45 minutes. It was May and about 22 outside. It is cool enough that pants and a long sleeved shirt would have been comfortable as well (or perhaps if you are someone that is really cold all the time). Shoes or sandals are fine (just not high heels because the walkway is a metal grate). We had a nice time here. It's mostly interesting from a historical interest point of view. I.e., it's not so much the ruins but the story and history along with them that is interesting. You'll want to be able to speak French to follow along. Our guide was excellent.
Interesting tour. There are layers from middle ages, back to 11 hundreds, and further back all there. The guide was very good, and seemed to know a lot. Tour is in french, but the guide kindly gave us an English summary at each step in the tour. Not very interesting for younger kids, especially if they don't speak French . But good for adults.
Very interesting, really huge, blonde female guide was absolutely amazing and doing a great job!
You can miss this one if you don't know French
The crypt opened for visitors in 2012. I read about it prior to our visit to Nice and looked forward to seeing it. A nice lady at the Tourist Office told me there would be tours in english. And It was to be expected, since the crypte is to be found on several lists of touristattractions in Nice. How surprising, when I called the center to make reservations and was dismissed by the lady on the other end of the line. Not only couldn't I make reservations, because there are no tours in english (or italian or any other language for that matter), she wasn't very polite about it either. There is not even a brochure in another language, in order to make it possible to follow a frenchspeaking guide. To my knowledge, many visitors in Nice doesn't necessarely speak french fluently. And I suppose the lady who took my call never travels outside of France. My point is that the crypt doesn't deserve to be on lists over what to visit in Nice. On those lists you should find attractions worth visiting for visitors.
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