Around Cannes
Hill villages, châteaux and artists’ museums within half an hour of Cannes: Le Cannet, Mougins, Valbonne, Vallauris, Golfe-Juan, Biot and Mandelieu-la-Napoule.
10 places
Château de la Napoule
A medieval fortress that an American artist couple turned into a castle and studio
Château de Vallauris and the War and Peace Chapel
A Romanesque chapel with Picasso’s War and Peace
Musée Bonnard
The world’s only museum of Pierre Bonnard, who lived in Le Cannet for a quarter of a century
Musée national Fernand Léger
The national museum of Fernand Léger, with a giant mosaic on its façade
Napoleon’s Landing at Golfe-Juan
Here, on March 1, 1815, Napoleon landed after escaping from Elba
Notre-Dame-de-Vie Chapel
A chapel among cypresses, next to the house where Picasso spent his last twelve years
Old Biot
A village of Templars, potters and glassblowers
Old Mougins
The hill village where Picasso brought his poet and artist friends
Rue Saint-Sauveur
The main street of a village founded by settlers from Liguria
Valbonne
A village laid out with a ruler in 1519, like a Roman town