Pyramid of Falicon

43.7446°N, 7.2803°E.

The Pyramid of Falicon near Nice in southeastern France — a small dressed-stone pyramidal structure standing approximately 3 metres tall on a base of 4 metres per side, located above a natural karstic cave (the Grotte des Ratapignata). The structure was first documented in the modern literature between 1803 and 1812 by Italian astronomer Domenico Rossetti, who measured and sketched it during a visit to the region. The pyramid's date and function have been disputed across two centuries: proposals range from a Roman-period funerary monument, to a seventeenth-century folly, to an early-modern Mithraic shrine connected to the cave below. A 2013 examination by the French Service Régional de l'Archéologie tentatively dated the construction to approximately the seventeenth or eighteenth century CE based on construction technique and mortar analysis, though no secure dating has been published.

A small dressed-stone pyramid above a cave in the hills above Nice, documented since 1803 and still without a securely established construction date or original purpose.