Archives Nice Côte d'Azur

The Archives Nice Côte d’Azur have formission to collect, maintain, evaluate, organize, describe, communicate, develop and disseminatedocuments produced by municipal and inter-communal public institutions, as well as private archival documents issued to or acquired by the City or Metropolis.
Archives Nice Côte d’Azurhost userswishingconsult archive fundsto assert their rights or for historical documentation of personal or professional research.
Archives Nice Côte d’Azuralso host the public through temporary exhibitions or cultural eventsvarious.

Stored in the sacristy of theSainte-Marie Cathedral, the archives of Nice are mentionedfrom the 13th centuryin the statutes of the City.The oldest document in the fundis one« charter-part » of Alphonse I, king of Aragon and count of Provence, recognizing peace with the Niçois and confirming their consulate (June 1176). The funds appear to have been enriched fairly regularly by the main documents produced by municipal agents and services.

It isin 1963the Municipal Archivesmove into the old villa « Les Palmiers » nicknamed « Palais de Marbre »In Fabron. Very quickly saturated.is doubled in 1984 by an annexintended to host payments of contemporary archives, in the former building of the Departmental Archives,to Cimiez. Only the siteFabron is open to the public, the documents kept on the remote site being routed on reservation for theconsultation in the Reading Room.

The Metropolitan Archivesare much younger since the service has beencreated in 2005. The metropolitan archival funds are recent: constituted, in their vast majority, ofadministrative recordsof theCANCA(community of agglomeration), then of theCUNCA(urban community) and communities of municipalitiesCoteaux d’Azur,deThe Tiny,of theMercantour stationandVesubie-Mercantourand finallyMetropolis, they have been enriched by the expansion of the competence of the public intercommunal cooperation institution.