| The film industry and all other manner of business junketing represent
CANNES
's main source of income in an ever-multiplying calendar of festivals, conferences, tournaments and trade shows. The spin-offs from servicing the day and night needs of the jetloads of agents, reps, dealers, buyers and celebrities are even more profitable than providing the strictly business facilities. Cannes may be more than its film festival, but it's still a grotesquely overhyped urban blight on this once exquisite coast - a contrast reinforced by the sublime
Îles de Lérins
, a short boat ride offshore and the best reason for coming here.
The old town, known as
Le Suquet
after the hill on which it stands, provides a great panorama of the twelve-kilometre beach, and has, on its summit, the remains of the fortified priory lived in by Cannes' eleventh-century monks and the beautiful twelfth-century chapelle Ste-Anne. These house the
Musée de la Castre
(daily except Tues: April-June 10am-noon & 2-6pm; July-Sept 10am-noon & 3-7pm; Oct-March 10am-noon & 2-5pm; 10F/?1.53), which has an extraordinary collection of musical instruments from all over the world, along with pictures and prints of old Cannes and an ethnology and archeology section.
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