Historically, this artery was not more than a little street called Carlone (a Nice’s rich banker) and finished at the height of the Rue Bottero (Fleurs district). Later the street have been extended and renamed with the name of Francois Grosso (owner of Elysee Palace Hotel, he gave all his properties to city of Nice).
In this area relatively recent (compared with the historical Old city of Nice and the Castle’s hill), some houses were already here during XVIII century, but the first buildings were built in the 1920’s. As everywhere in Nice, the architecture is really various, with typical houses, Art-Déco real estates, buildings of the pre and post war, some constructions of the 30 glorious (among which the Rometti properties), and also some more recent residences …
The Grosso area is, for the most, residential, but you can finds also some proximity shops, a supermarket, pizzerias, restaurants and hotels … .
