Surroundings, Cannes

There are several scenic villages outside of Cannes.

Picture - The Famous Ile Sainte Marguerite Island Jail, across from Cannes.

Picture - The old architecture of La Grasse.

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Iles de Lérins

Ste-Marguerite and St-Honorat are the two primary islands of the Iles de Lérins. Ferry service is offered from Cannes.

Highlights:	Ste Marguerite	St Honorat

Antibes, France

Antibes was an important town even during the Greek and Roman times. Today it is a busy resort town along the Mediterranean.

Highlights:	Château Grimaldi Musée Picasso Musée Fernand Léger, Biot Jardin Thuret, Cap d'Antibes	Notre-Dame-de-la-Garoupe Biot

Grasse, France

Highlights:	Perfume Indsutry Gourdon, France	Gorges du Loup Old Town

Esterel (Massif de l'Esterel)

Highlights:	Esterel Pic de l'Ours	Mont Vinaigre

Vallauris-Golfe-Juan, France

The locality above the Golfe-Juan, 5km/3mi north-east of Cannes, with the seaside estate of the same name, was originally called "Vallis Aurea" (Golden Valley). This little town with its potteries and orange groves once belonged to the monks of Lérins.

Chapel and Museum

The only relic of the Middle Ages is the Romanesque chapel, in the beautiful crypt of which Picasso painted between 1952 and 1959 his famous picture "War and Peace". The monastery, which was fortified in the 12th C., was destroyed in 1569 and rebuilt during the Renaissance. Today it houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne (modern art). In front of the church - where there is a market in the morning - stands Picasso's sculpture "Man with a Sheep".

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Vallauris - Golfe-Juan Pottery

Pottery has been important in Vallauris since the time of the Romans. After the Second World War the activity of Pablo Picasso gave the place a fresh impetus. It was here that in 1946 Picasso got to know the ceramic-artists Suzanne and Georges Ramié and became enthusiastic about this new material. Today there are about 100 potters working in Vallauris and their products are sold in the streets. The biennial pottery fair assures the future of this craft. The Madoura workshop near Avenue Clémenceau, headed by Alain Ramié, still produces pottery based on Picasso's designs as well as some fine work of its own.

Vallauris Picasso Museum

The Vallauris Picasso Museum has several original Picasso works, the most notable is "La Guerre et la Paix" ("War and Peace"). The museum also houses works by Alberto Magnelli, a pioneer of abstract art.

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Vallauris - Magnelli and Ceramic Museum

The Magnelli Museum has collections of art nouveau, pre-columbian art as well as prints and ceramics by Picasso.

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Theoule-sur-Mer, France

In the western part of the Golfe de la Napoule lies the resort of Théoule-sur-mer, which has an 18th C. soap-works by the sea, remodelled into a manor house, and a harbor which dates from the 17th C. The slopes are lined with tiers of apartments in old Sardinian style; in the vivinity of the yacht harbors Port de la Rague and Port de la Galère to the south lies the Pointe de l'Aiguille, above which the settlement of Théoule-Supérieur is highly regarded as a place at which to spend holidays.

Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France

The twin villages of Mandelieu-La Napoule, which are bisected by the expressway, are situated 5km/3mi west of Cannes between the mouths of the rivers Siagne and Argentier at the foot of the Massif du Tanneron.

Picturesquely situated by the sea and popular as a holiday resort, the village sector of La Napoule-Plage is overlooked by a restored 14th C. castle (art exhibition) standing on a porphyry rock.

From the nearby hill of San Peire, rising to 131m/430ft above sea level and with a ruined chapel, there is a view of the coast, with apartment blocks and marinas.