Le Suquet, quartier historique de Cannes
Medieval hilltop quarter of steep lanes, crowned by a monks' castle, watchtower and world museum.
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This guide to Le Suquet, the old hilltop quarter of Cannes, follows Tinco Lycklama, a Frisian nobleman the town called Baron, from a portrait sitting in oriental robes to an overland journey through Russia and the Caucasus to Tehran in the eighteen sixties. It touches the monks of Lérins who fortified the summit, and the masked balls of a Riviera newcomer. Best heard on the slope below the castle walls, looking up toward the tower.
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