The district of Valrose is a district niçois blotti between the hill of Cimiez and Brancolar.

One finds there the castle of the baron Paul Georgevitch Von Derwies. It shelters now the direction of the Université of Nice, in the middle of the park which constitutes the Valrose campus, with the buildings of the Faculty of Science of Nice as well as the Valrose Gymnasium.

The Valrose field was repurchased in 1958 by the Town of Nice, for the sum of 320 franc million in 1961. The owner was the family Patiño, the prince Bolivia N of tin. The field is reassigned in the State in 1965, which then establishes there the seat of the University of Nice.

In 1924, Samuel L. Goldenberg, American contractor survivor of the Titanic, and his second wife Edwige Garbowska make build a City of the Blind men in the Valrose district: 16 villas to place families of blind men, built on grounds yielded for frank a symbolic system. Today, the Goldenberg-Garbowska avenue emerges with height of the n° 79 of the Valrose avenue, there rose the City of the Blind men.

With proximity, in the district Saint-Lambert, is the church Sainte Jeanne d' Arc, building of architecture very modern.

External bonds

• great dates of the field of Valrose, on the gate of the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis.
• “a shipwreck and miracles”, Nice Memory , February 2005, page 30 and page 31.