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Le Cannet
Cannes's hill town of seven hills, where Pierre Bonnard painted his last twenty years
Le Cannet rises directly north of Cannes over seven hills – the Pézou, the Colle, the Bosquet, Serra Capeou, the Clauvins, Font-Marie and the Bréguières – and the Via Aurelia, which joined Rome to Arles, crossed them; its trace is still visible in the Haut-Cannet.
In 1441 the monks of Lérins granted farmland here to Sylvestre Calvy, the town's oldest known document, and some 140 families, many from the valley of Oneglia, settled between 1441 and 1500 in hamlets that still carry their names – Dany, Ardisson, Calvy. On 9 August 1774 Louis XVI made Le Cannet a commune independent of Cannes and Mougins.
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The old town, Le Cannet Mairie, keeps its chapels and towers, and craftsmen line the pedestrian Rue Saint-Sauveur. Pierre Bonnard bought the villa Le Bosquet in 1926 and painted here until his death; the Musée Bonnard opened in 2011, and Rocheville, the largest quarter, is the town's modern centre.
Highlights
- Place of worshipChapelle Notre-Dame-des-Anges du CannetA chapel of 1557 by one of the founding Calvy family, with an open porch
- MuseumMusée BonnardThe only museum devoted to Pierre Bonnard, in the town where he painted from 1926
- Restaurant · Two MICHELIN starsLa Villa ArchangeTwo Michelin stars in a villa in the old Cannet
- SightTour des DanysThe oldest building of Le Cannet kept as built, a tithe tower nicknamed by Mérimée
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Sources
- Wikipédia (fr) : Le Cannet
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wikidata
- INSEE IRIS / IGN (Licence Ouverte 2.0)