Port Pierre Canto
Yacht marina of the nineteen sixties, once Europe's first private port, with berths for superyachts.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Port Pierre Canto in Cannes follows Pierre Canto, a local company administrator who, in the late nineteen fifties, set out to build a harbour on the Croisette with his own money. It touches the legal oddity at the heart of his plan, a royal christening with Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, and the question of who owns a man's name once his harbour changes hands. Best heard on the quay facing the yachts, with the harbour beacon in view.
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