Castillo del Castre
Hilltop medieval castle museum with world collections, musical instruments and a panoramic tower.
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This guide to the Castillo del Castre, the old castle on the hilltop of Cannes, follows Tinco Lycklama, a Dutch baron of the eighteen-sixties and seventies who crossed the Russian Empire and Persia alone and then settled on the Riviera. It moves through his masked balls and his taste for oriental costume, and asks what happens to the props of a life spent at play. Best heard in the courtyard, near the chapel full of musical instruments.
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