The Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée was begun in 1875 under Charles III to designs by Charles Lenormand on the site of the church of Saint-Nicolas, built in 1252 and pulled down in 1874; it was completed in 1903 and consecrated in 1911. It is Romanesque-Byzantine, 72 metres long, built of white stone from La Turbie with porphyry from the Estérel and marble from Carrara. Its treasures include Louis Bréa's altarpiece of Saint Nicholas, painted in 1500, and a grand organ of 1976 later rebuilt with about 7,000 pipes.
Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly married here in 1956, and both are buried here, among the tombs of the princes of Monaco from Jean II to Rainier III. The relics of Saint Dévote have their own chapel, and the cathedral's choir school, the Maîtrise, has carried the name since 1904.
The building
Rue de l'Abbaye, Monaco-Ville, Monaco – facts from the open sources, each with its source.
Facts
- Address
- Rue de l'Abbaye
- Use
- Place of worshipOpenStreetMap
- Built
- 1875–1903Metro Mode
- Architect
- Charles LenormandOpenStreetMap / Wikidata
- Footprint
- 2,038 m²OpenStreetMap
- Style
- Romanesque-ByzantineMetro Mode
- Built as
- Cathedral (on the site of the thirteenth-century church of Saint-Nicolas)Metro Mode
- Quartier
- Monaco-Ville
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- Princesse Stephanieline 3, line 4, line 6, line N1 · 4 min on foot
- Beach
- Plage du Solarium10 min on foot
- Port
- port de Fontvieille3 min on foot
- From the Casino
- 19 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
- From the Palais
- 4 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
On the map
Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate, its outline lit, on Rue de l'Abbaye.
Building outlines and heights © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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Sources
Building outline, height, floors, use and address: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); the photograph from Wikimedia Commons under its own licence.
Buses: Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco GTFS (Licence Ouverte 2.0).
Wikipédia (fr) : Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée de Monaco
Wikidata: Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate (Q667450)
Institut du patrimoine, Direction des Affaires Culturelles (diocese.mc): the religious heritage of Monaco
Finestre sull'Arte: La cathédrale de Monaco
Photo: SvetlanaSF/Adobe Stock
Official website cathedrale.mc