Rue Saint-Sauveur
The main street of a village founded by settlers from Liguria
The story
Before you is Rue Saint-Sauveur, the main street of old Le Cannet. Le Cannet is first mentioned in a document from 1281. The land here belonged to Lérins Abbey. In 1441 the monks granted a plot to Sylvestre Calvy, from the Oneglia valley in Liguria, on the Italian coast. Other families followed him. By the end of the sixteenth century, about ten hamlets had grown up around here, each named after its founding family. Le Cannet became a community of its own, independent of Cannes, only in 1774. On the street stands the former town hall with a clock on its little tower; it was in use until 1933. The small Saint-Sauveur chapel is a former bell tower at the entrance to the Ardissons quarter. No one knows when it was built. In 1989 it was saved from ruin, and the artist Théo Tobiasse decorated it on the theme “Life is a celebration.” On the same street is the Lovers’ Wall by the artist Raymond Peynet, from 1990: newlyweds fly over a garden of Eden. Newlyweds almost always come here.
Visiting
The street is pedestrian; you can walk it at any time. The Saint-Sauveur chapel (4 Rue des Ardissons) is open on weekdays, free entry; hours are best checked with the Le Cannet tourist office or on lecannet-tourisme.fr. The Musée Bonnard is a few minutes’ walk to the west.
On the way
Photos
Sources
- Ville du Cannet — La culture et le patrimoine au Cannet
- Office de Tourisme du Cannet — Walking tour of Vieux-Cannet
- Office de Tourisme du Cannet — Saint-Sauveur chapel decorated by Tobiasse
- Office de Tourisme du Cannet — Peynet’s Wall of Lovers
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