Église Notre-Dame d'Espérance de Cannes
Hilltop Gothic church of honey-coloured stone, sheltering a gilded Virgin crowned by papal consent.
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This guide to Notre-Dame d'Espérance in Cannes starts with the gilded wooden Virgin above the high altar and the hilltop fishing town that set out to build her a church in fifteen twenty-one. It follows the mason hired to finish the job, the feast day chosen for its dedication, and the trade brotherhoods who claimed the side chapels one by one. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the altar.
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