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<p>From the belvedere by the artificial cascade.the real boats down belowdon't look much biggerthan the models in the museum.and the shimmering, tiled, glazed rooftops of Nice curi into the distance around the Baie des Anges.<br />
Among the gardens at the top of the hill are two cemeteries: in the grandiose Italian oneyou can find the tombs of Garibaldi's mother and of Mercedes Jellinek, who gained immortality in 1902 when herfatherchose her namefora newlineof Daimlers. More sombrely, a reminder of the Holocaust standsjust inside the gates of the Jewish cernetela pairof urns containing as hes from the incinerators of theconcentration camps and a phial of human fat collected bythe Nazis to makesoap.<br />
Ifyoudescend by way of the east flankof the hill, down Montee Eberle and Rue Catherine-Segurane (where Nietzsche lived between 1883 and i888),you'll end up in the wide,yellow,arcaded 18th-century Place Garibaldi, named after its statue of the hero of Italy's unification.who was born near the port in 1806. Once named the'Piazza Vittorio'bythe war-weary Nicois in an atterri pt to curry favour with King Victor Amedee III of Sardinia, it was built to both cowandflatterSardinian sovereigns arrivingfromTurin. The arcades on the eastern side are nowfull of buzzy, lively fish restaurants.The Blue Penitents have their sombre neoclassica! chapel of St-Sepulcre (1782) on this square, while just around the corner, facing the esplana deat 60 bis Bd Risso, is the Museum Barla d'Histoire Naturelle, where you can ponder, a mong other things, a rather unusual igth-century collection of 7,000 painted plaster mushrooms.<br />
South of Place Garibaldi off Rue Neuve is one of the city's oldest parishchurches,St-Martin-St-Augustin,wherea monk named