The Riviera Guide

Quartier · Cannes

Le Suquet & the Vieux Port

The old town on its hill: the monks' tower, the castle museum, Notre-Dame-d'Espérance

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Le Suquet – «the mound», sometimes called Mont-Chevalier – is the oldest quartier of Cannes, its vieille ville on the hill above the Vieux-Port. Ligurians had an oppidum on it; in the Middle Ages the abbots of Lérins fortified it, beginning the great tower around 1080 and finishing it only in 1365, twenty-two metres high to watch the bay.

The lanes climb to Place de la Castre, where the monks' castle now holds the Musée des Explorations du monde and the church of Notre-Dame-d'Espérance, built from 1521 to 1627, looks out to sea. At the foot of the hill, the town hall of 1876 and the covered Marché Forville mark the edge of the quartier; late in the nineteenth century Piedmontese families settled here, and new streets were opened around the market.

Highlights

Restaurants · 132

Cafés & ice cream · 19

Bars & nightlife · 19

Hotels · 8

Museums, galleries & stages · 8

Landmarks & notable buildings · 12

Churches & chapels · 5

Gardens & parks · 6

Beaches & beach clubs · 13

Markets · 1

Viewpoints & nature · 2

Sights & public art · 16

Shops & boutiques · 64

The streets · 41

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