Roots EarthAll cities

France · Europe

Roots Earth in Cannes: audio stories about 34 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 34 places in Cannes, France, in Europe. The Cannes stories are in English and German only: Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian are in 126 of the 130 Roots Earth cities, and Cannes is not one of them. The app needs no account: open Cannes, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 34 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: cannes.md

The 34 places in Cannes with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. The Suquet Tower (Mont Chevalier Keep)
  2. Museum of World Explorations (Castre Castle)
  3. Church of Notre-Dame d'Esperance
  4. Sainte-Anne Chapel
  5. Chapel of the Miséricorde (Black Penitents)
  6. Le Suquet des Artistes
  7. Forville Market
  8. Rue Meynadier
  9. The Old Port and Quai Saint-Pierre
  10. Allées de la Liberté
  11. The Bandstand
  12. War Memorial of 1914-1918
  13. Cannes Town Hall
  14. Church of Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage
  15. Palais des Festivals et des Congrès
  16. Boulevard de la Croisette
  17. La Malmaison Art Centre
  18. Carlton Hotel
  19. Palais Miramar and Espace Miramar
  20. Villa Éléonore-Louise (Château Éléonore)
  21. Vallombrosa Park and the former Hôtel du Parc
  22. Villa Rothschild and its park (Noailles Media Library)
  23. Croix-des-Gardes Natural Park
  24. Grand Jas Cemetery
  25. Saint George's Church
  26. Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Michael the Archangel
  27. Villa Domergue and its gardens
  28. Bellini Chapel
  29. Villa Romée
  30. Fortified Monastery of Lérins Abbey
  31. The Chapels of Saint-Honorat
  32. Fort Royal and the Museum of the Iron Mask
  33. Sainte-Marguerite Island: the state forest, the Batéguier pond and the Convention Battery
  34. The Ancient Remains and Roman Cisterns of Sainte-Marguerite

Is there an audio guide for The Suquet Tower (Mont Chevalier Keep)?

Yes. The Suquet Tower (Mont Chevalier Keep) has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English and German.

It is place 1 of the 34 Cannes places in the app, at 43.551347, 7.012753. Every one of the other 33 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Cannes

Open Roots Earth and choose Cannes. The city has its own map of places with all 34 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English and German, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 34 places in Cannes, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 34 places in Cannes, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English and German. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. The Suquet Tower (Mont Chevalier Keep)

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
This nearly windowless medieval keep is Cannes’s oldest surviving monument. Rising from the museum courtyard, it embodies the abbots of Lérins’ former power and rewards the climb with a complete panorama of city, bay and islands.

2. Museum of World Explorations (Castre Castle)

Coordinates
43.550129, 7.010431
In one line
Medieval monastic walls frame an unusually wide-ranging museum of world cultures, Mediterranean antiquities and nineteenth-century collecting. Its intimate galleries, Romanesque chapel, courtyard and keep turn exploration of objects into exploration of the castle itself.

3. Church of Notre-Dame d'Esperance

Coordinates
43.551623, 7.018354
In one line
Built by the people of Cannes over roughly a century, this late-Gothic Provençal church marks the old town’s emergence from monastic control. Its confraternity chapels, fishermen’s votive boats and commanding bell tower preserve Le Suquet’s communal memory.

4. Sainte-Anne Chapel

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
Once Le Suquet’s small parish church and part of its defences, this Romanesque chapel now forms a gallery within the Museum of World Explorations. Medieval stonework surrounds instruments from four world regions and a striking contemporary liturgical ensemble.

5. Chapel of the Miséricorde (Black Penitents)

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
This modest seventeenth-century chapel is the last surviving penitents’ chapel in Le Suquet. Built for the Black Penitents and closely tied to fishing families, it also served as an assembly room during major civic upheavals.

6. Le Suquet des Artistes

Coordinates
43.550912, 7.011552
In one line
This plain former hospital morgue has become a municipal centre for contemporary art and artists’ studios. Its retained corridor and rounded alcoves make an institutional past visible beneath changing exhibitions, projected light and creative clutter.

7. Forville Market

Coordinates
43.550912, 7.011552
In one line
Forville Market is Cannes’s historic covered food hall, where a Provençal-looking shell conceals a modern concrete frame. Its story links the old quarter’s daily commerce with the hall’s ambitious reconstruction in reinforced concrete between the world wars.

8. Rue Meynadier

Coordinates
43.55237, 7.0136
In one line
This narrow pedestrian street preserves Cannes’s old commercial axis from Le Suquet toward Antibes. Historic shopkeeping, family memory and flashes of 1930s design remain embedded in its irregular line of façades.

9. The Old Port and Quai Saint-Pierre

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
The Old Port grew from a beach anchorage into Cannes’s engineered maritime gateway. Its stone quays bring fishing boats, island traffic and large yachts into one view, while traces of expansion and wartime rebuilding remain in the harbour walls.

10. Allées de la Liberté

Coordinates
43.55175736, 7.0138145
In one line
The Allées de la Liberté form Cannes’s tree-lined civic promenade between town hall and Old Port. Markets, music, public monuments and pétanque have all shaped an esplanade repeatedly redesigned for communal life.

11. The Bandstand

Coordinates
43.551455, 7.014467
In one line
This 1880 music pavilion turns cast iron, stone and zinc into an elegant outdoor acoustic device. The delayed pavilion, once mocked by Le Courrier de Cannes, now belongs to Cannes’s protected civic heritage.

12. War Memorial of 1914-1918

Coordinates
43.5511, 7.01275
In one line
Cannes’s principal Great War memorial combines an octagonal stone pedestal with a bronze group of service figures and winged Victory. Its many-sided design places individual names and battlefronts around a monument that visitors must circle to read in full.

13. Cannes Town Hall

Coordinates
43.550861, 7.01725
In one line
Cannes Town Hall is a nineteenth-century civic landmark whose orderly stone façade turns local government into public theatre. Its carvings unite the city’s maritime identity with the flowers and produce of the surrounding region.

14. Church of Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage

Coordinates
43.551623, 7.018354
In one line
This neo-Romanesque parish church grew in stages from a sailors’ place of devotion into a major central landmark. Its round arches, truncated towers, carved wooden saints and Napoleon memorial preserve several layers of Cannes history.

15. Palais des Festivals et des Congrès

Coordinates
43.55091345, 7.01793002
In one line
The Palais des Festivals et des Congrès is Cannes’s modern waterfront stage for cinema, conferences and public ceremony. Behind its famous red-carpet steps lies a vast working complex of auditoriums, meeting rooms, exhibition halls and terraces.

16. Boulevard de la Croisette

Coordinates
43.55139371, 7.01738114
In one line
The Boulevard de la Croisette is Cannes’s engineered seafront promenade, created from a sandy shore route through an alliance of civic ambition and private interest. Its hotels, beaches, palms and film handprints layer spectacle over a deliberately remade coast.

17. La Malmaison Art Centre

Coordinates
43.5503299, 7.0248649
In one line
La Malmaison is a Belle Époque villa transformed into a contemporary art centre on the Croisette. Once tied to the Grand Hôtel’s elite social world and the first Cannes Film Festival, it now combines intimate galleries with Mediterranean views.

18. Carlton Hotel

Coordinates
43.5499, 7.02535
In one line
The Carlton is an early twentieth-century palace hotel whose domed corner turrets and long seafront façade help define the Croisette. Historic public rooms, cinematic associations and a major modern reconstruction reveal luxury as continual reinvention.

19. Palais Miramar and Espace Miramar

Coordinates
43.55139371, 7.01738114
In one line
An interwar seafront palace turned residential landmark, Palais Miramar preserves the scale and classical display of late Croisette hotel culture. Its municipal Espace Miramar continues the building’s long association with public entertainment.

20. Villa Éléonore-Louise (Château Éléonore)

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
The first holiday villa built in Cannes, Éléonore-Louise helped establish the English quarter on the western hills. Its layered Italianate silhouette records both Lord Brougham’s original retreat and decades of enlargement.

21. Vallombrosa Park and the former Hôtel du Parc

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
A Gothic-revival château expanded into a grand hotel, Vallombrosa compresses resort architecture, wartime care and residential conversion into one private estate.

22. Villa Rothschild and its park (Noailles Media Library)

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
A Rothschild winter residence transformed into a municipal media library, this neoclassical villa joins ceremonial interiors with an exotic landscaped park. Reading rooms now occupy salons created for the Rothschild household.

23. Croix-des-Gardes Natural Park

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
A protected ridge of Mediterranean woodland and former flower-growing terraces, Croix-des-Gardes overlooks Cannes and the bay. Its naturalized mimosa links the park to the horticultural experiments that helped reshape the western hills.

24. Grand Jas Cemetery

Coordinates
43.559388, 7.005195
In one line
A terraced, tree-filled cemetery opened as Cannes became an international resort, Grand Jas gathers local, British and Russian histories in one hillside landscape. Its monuments range from restrained marble graves to elaborate family memorials.

25. Saint George's Church

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
An English Gothic church of pink and white stone, Saint George’s was created as a royal memorial. Its spire, British-made furnishings, and Duke of Albany cenotaph preserve the story of Cannes’s former English colony.

26. Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Michael the Archangel

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
Pale limestone, colourful roof tiles, and bulb-shaped domes mark the spiritual centre created for Cannes’s Russian colony. Its marble iconostasis, rich founding gifts, and active Orthodox parish carry that community’s identity into the present.

27. Villa Domergue and its gardens

Coordinates
43.56453, 7.029212
In one line
A painter’s interwar home and studio unfolds into a highly composed terraced garden of cypresses, water, columns, and sculpture. Villa Domergue unites architecture, artistic work, landscape design, and the couple’s memorial resting place.

28. Bellini Chapel

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
This ornate private chapel became the studio of painter and architect Emmanuel Bellini, then a museum. Its bulbous tower and compact nave now frame vivid paintings, architectural drawings, and the tools of Bellini’s double career.

29. Villa Romée

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
Villa Romée is an early modernist seaside house where portholes, concrete cantilevers, and horizontal openings meet a regional tiled roof. Rescued from abandonment, it now serves as Cannes’s Maison de l’Architecture.

30. Fortified Monastery of Lérins Abbey

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
This medieval tower-monastery compresses cloisters, cells, refectory, and chapel into a massive coastal refuge. Built upward over centuries, it embodies both the dangers faced by Lérins monks and the enduring power of their community.

31. The Chapels of Saint-Honorat

Coordinates
43.514722, 7.052222
In one line
Scattered stone chapels make Saint-Honorat a sacred landscape rather than a single monastic enclosure. Their varied medieval forms preserve traces of prayer, burial and pilgrimage across the island.

32. Fort Royal and the Museum of the Iron Mask

Coordinates
43.550031, 7.010376
In one line
Fort Royal combines a bastioned coastal stronghold, a former state prison and a museum. Its most famous cell reveals the gap between the black velvet mask of contemporary records and the later iron legend.

33. Sainte-Marguerite Island: the state forest, the Batéguier pond and the Convention Battery

Coordinates
43.551347, 7.012753
In one line
Sainte-Marguerite brings together a Mediterranean state forest, a bird-rich saline lagoon and a coastal battery. Paths connect living habitats with the island’s former role in guarding Golfe-Juan.

34. The Ancient Remains and Roman Cisterns of Sainte-Marguerite

Coordinates
43.5231944, 7.04386111
In one line
Four Roman cistern chambers form the museum’s ground-floor galleries beneath Fort Royal. Together with painted bath fragments and shipwreck cargoes, they reveal Sainte-Marguerite’s ancient settlement and maritime connections.

Roots Earth in short

Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people.

  • No account
  • Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
  • Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities

Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app.