Cannes

Introduction

The Bay of Cannes

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Cannes is a city along the French Riviera and located in the Alpes-Maritime deparment in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is one of the best known cities along the coast of France and the Cannes Film Festival is known all over the world. It's a luxurious place to spend your holiday but finding a decent priced accommodation is possible as well. Just walk around and be surprised by all the luxury here and soak up the atmosphere.

Neighbourhoods

Sights and Activities

• La Suquet, the old town
• Musée de la Castre
• Île Sainte-Marguerite (St Marguerite Island)
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Provence
• Île Saint-Honorat (St Honorat Island)
• Musée de la Marine
• Musée de la Mer
• Musée de la Photographie
• Musée International de la Parfumerie
• Cannes villas and yachts

Events and Festivals

• The Festival de Cannes, better known as the Filmfestival of Cannes, is one of the oldest and most prestigious filmfestivals anywhere in the world. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The first festival started in 1930 and in 2012, the 65th edition will be a fact.
• Festival d'Art Pyrotechnique - annual fireworks competition
• Carnival on the Riviera
• The International Festival of Games

Weather

Cannes has a typical Mediterranean climate. Summers from June to September are warm, mostly between 28 and 32 °C during the day and around 20 °C at night. Most days are sunny and dry. Winters are wetter with temperatures around or just above 10 °C and nights well above zero. Frost and snow are rare.

Getting There

By Plane

The nearest important airport is Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur (NCE). Almost every major city in Europe has regular service to this airport, while almost every airport in the UK has service too. There are also flights to Marrakech, Casablanca, Dubai, Algiers, Malta, Tunis, Beirut and even to New York directly from Nice.
Further away but with a significant number of flights is the airport near Marseille.

By Train

Destinations include Nice (30 minutes), Grasse (25 minutes) and Marseille (two hours), as well as St-Raphaël.

By Car

By Bus

There are regular services to Nice (1,5 hours) and Nice Airport (40 minutes), as well as more places along the coastline like Antibes, Saint Tropez and Toulon and to places inland.

By Boat

Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

By Bike

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Work

Learn

Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

See also International Telephone Calls

Post

La Poste in France is also referred to as the PTT (short for postes, télégraphes et téléphones). The mailboxes are painted bright yellow and often there is a slot for local city mail and another slot for "outside mail". Normally there is a queue in the post office, but most of the post offices have the self service machine installed which is quite easy to operate. Nowadays many of the tabac and even some of the souvenir shops also sell postage stamps. Normally an overseas postcard costs almost as much as sending a letter.
Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 7:00pm Monday through Friday, and 8:00am to noon on Saturdays. Apart from the basic job of mailing letters, most of the post offices do some banking activities also and some even have photocopy machines and cyber cafes for internet access.