Historic Le Suquet Hill

The Marché Forville sits under a long, low concrete roof held up by thin, elegant pillars. It started in nineteen thirty-four, when the mayor at the time, Pierre Nouveau, pushed to clear away the messy, informal stalls along the old port.…

Rue Meynadier remains a narrow, pedestrian corridor defined by its two rows of brightly colored, tall stucco buildings that squeeze the sky into a thin ribbon above. While the rest of Cannes chased the glitz of the seaside promenade, this…

The IGY Vieux-Port de Cannes features a concrete breakwater that stretches into the Mediterranean, sheltering rows of yachts behind a stone wall built in the nineteen thirties. Originally a simple landing point for fishermen, the harbor…

The Tour du Masque de fer sits on the rocky point of the Île Sainte-Marguerite, a square stone fortress rising directly from the Mediterranean surf. This is the oldest part of the Royal Fort, where local legend traps a prisoner whose face…

Rue Saint-Antoine runs as a steep, narrow stone staircase cutting through the oldest district of Cannes. Before the luxury hotels and the film festival defined the city, this lane served as the primary artery for the fishermen of Le…

The Church of Notre-Dame d'Espérance anchors the highest point of the Le Suquet neighborhood with a massive, square stone bell tower. Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this late Gothic structure served as the primary place…

The Musée des Explorations du Monde occupies a medieval tower and chapel perched on the heights of Le Suquet. Its thick stone walls rise from the remains of a tenth-century castle built by the monks of Lérins. Baron Lycklama, a Dutch…