Place de la Castre
Hilltop old-town square beside a Gothic church and medieval castle, with sweeping bay views.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Place de la Castre, on the hilltop of Cannes' old Suquet quarter, follows the potters Léon Castel and Alfred Pinard as they move into a medieval monks' fortress in the autumn of eighteen seventy-eight. It reaches back to the watchtower's builders and the fires once lit on it, and forward to the glazes made behind these walls. Best heard on the square, facing the castle and its tower.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Musée des explorations du monde
Hilltop medieval monastery-fortress holding world antiquities, instruments and a climbable watchtower.
Castillo del Castre
Hilltop medieval castle museum with world collections, musical instruments and a panoramic tower.
Le Suquet, quartier historique de Cannes
Medieval hilltop quarter of steep lanes, crowned by a monks' castle, watchtower and world museum.
Abbaye de Lérins
Island abbey with a medieval fortified tower-monastery, cloisters and monks' vineyards by the sea.
Lérins Islands
Pine-covered Mediterranean islands with a working abbey, a medieval sea tower and a coastal fort.
Mougins Vieille ville
Spiral hilltop village of cobbled lanes, surviving medieval gate and old stone houses.