Palm Beach Cannes
Hispano-Moorish Art Deco summer casino from 1929 at the tip of the seafront, with pools.
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This guide to the Palm Beach in Cannes stands you at the tip of the Croisette, where Europe's first summer casino opened in the spring of nineteen twenty-nine. It follows a building that kept getting knocked down, by war and then by slower troubles, and asks why a place with so glamorous a start proved so hard to save. You'll hear about the bombs of August nineteen forty-four and the years the doors stayed shut. Best heard facing the building from the Place Franklin Roosevelt.
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