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  • Cruise ships leaving Cannes.
      Cruise ships leaving Cannes.
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  • Jardin d'Arménie.
      Jardin d'Arménie.
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  • Beaches - Plages, Cannes

    1. Beaches - Plages

    Yes there are public free beaches in Cannes even at the Croisette and they are as clean as the private beaches. As what concerns the crowd it all depends from the season and also of the time of the...   more
  • Le Suquet, Cannes

    2. Le Suquet

    One of the nicest places to visit in Cannes where you can see the locals in shops, stores, and sitting at outdoor cafes is in the old town on the hill, Le Suquet. Taking the winding streets up the...   more
  • La Croisette, Cannes

    3. La Croisette

    At the end of La Croisette one finds nice gardens with palm trees. One is called "Jardin d'Arménie" (photo 1) the other the "Roseraie" of the Square de Verdun. There is a beach called "Bijou Plage"...   more
  • Palais des Festivals - Film Festival, Cannes

    4. Palais des Festivals - Film Festival

    Perhaps the most prominent film festival in the world, the inaugural Cannes Film Festival opened on the French Riviera on 20 September 1946. This festival was a direct response to the Venice Film...   more
  • Notre Dame de l'Espérance & Other Churches, Cannes

    5. Notre Dame de l'Espérance & Other Churches

    At the top of the Suquet hill the Church of Notre-Dame de l'Espérance (16-17th c.) looks more like a fortress as a church in late gothic style. The bell tower (16th c.) was part of the ancient hedging...   more
  • Vieux-Port - Harbour, Cannes

    6. Vieux-Port - Harbour

    I was really lucky to be in Cannes at the end of Sept 2008 for the 30th Anniversary of Cannes' Régates Royales, Panerai Trophee, and to be able to see marvellous racing vessels built between the...   more
  • Shopping & Walking around, Cannes

    7. Shopping & Walking around

    If you tired of too much walking then try to discover Cannes by Little Tourist Train. It is fast easy and maybe in your native language. Click on website link and read about costs, routes and...   more
  • Château de la Castre - Castle museum, Cannes

    8. Château de la Castre - Castle museum

    Admission is 3.20 Euros Discounted rate is 2 Euros Admission free The first sunday of each month for students under 26 for all young people under 18 for disable persons Opening hours October to...   more
  • Outside Cannes, Cannes

    9. Outside Cannes

    Cannes is situated exactly at the mid-point of the Côte d'Azur: it takes as long to reach Saint-Tropez as it does San Remo in Italy (roughly 1.5 hours each). Cannes also benefits from its proximity to...   more
  • Iles de Lérins, Cannes

    10. Iles de Lérins

    Between Ste-Marguerite and St-Honorat island is a sound with turquoise blue waters which is a favorite anchoring point for small yachts and boats during the summer. On the big catamaran on the right...   more
  • Celebrities, Cannes

    11. Celebrities

    Right beside the Palais Des Festivals, you will find various hand prints of celebraties on the floor. Pretty cool knowing " who is who" was there before. The picture shown here is the hand print of...   more
  • Hotels & Residences, Cannes

    12. Hotels & Residences

    This is another emblematic hotel on the Croisette nearly in front of the Palais des Festivals. The hotel has 265 rooms and 84 suites. It belongs to the Lucien Barrière group. Spectacular façade at...   more
  • Markets - Marchés, Cannes

    13. Markets - Marchés

    This covered market is a few streets behind the Hôtel de Ville / Townhall of Cannes at the eastern edge of the Suquet. The building dates from 1929 in a "neo-regionalist" style by architect Henri...   more
  • Gardens, Cannes

    14. Gardens

    A small 'square' on the Le Suquet hill, just below the tower and ramparts, and places to site amidst large oleander bushes and beneath lovely shade trees. At the west end of "La Croisette", between...   more
  • The Cannes Calendar - events all year around, Cannes

    15. The Cannes Calendar - events all year around

    January - MIDEM - International market for musicFebruary - MILIA - GSM world congress - Festival of GamesMarch - MIPIM - international market for real...   more
  • Feux d'Artifices - July and August 2005, Cannes

    16. Feux d'Artifices - July and August 2005

    The Festival d'Art Pyrotechnique is an international firework display competition held each year over six days in July and August, to see who can produce the...   more
  • Like everywhere else, here also tragedies happened, Cannes

    17. Like everywhere else, here also tragedies happened

    In war films stars play fallen soldiers and hero's that die for the fatherland. In real this also has happened and like in all other French (and European)...   more
  • Cannes, a international town hall, Cannes

    18. Cannes, a international town hall

    The town hall of Cannes is situated between the old and the new parts of town. Directly across the monument for the fallen hero's in the two world wars, the...   more
  • Gare Routiere, Cannes, Cannes

    19. Gare Routiere, Cannes

    Frankie goes to Hollywood - by bus.The bus station at Cannes is decorated with this trompe d'oeil tribute to film spanning nearly a hundred years. (Which is not...   more
  • Sea-gull watching, Cannes

    20. Sea-gull watching

    You can often observe "free" relaxed life of sea-gulls as not many tourists are around. They may be easily photographed because they are not easily scared. You...   more
  • Football!!, Cannes

    21. Football!!

    Come to see a football game in Cannes!!It's the first club of Zidane and Viera. Now we're in 3rd division but the ambiance is still good!Choose the "populaire...   more
  • The old tree, Cannes

    22. The old tree

    I don't have informations about it, I don't remember how old was this tree, but I liked it very much.   more

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