Cagnes-sur-Mer

Cagnes-sur-Mer
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Grasse
Canton	Cagnes-sur-Mer-1 ; Cagnes-sur-Mer-2
Community association	Nice Cote d'Azur
Coordinates	43 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 9 ′ E Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 9 ′ E
height	0-187 m
surface	17.95 km 2
Residents	50,928 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	2,837 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	06800
INSEE code	06027
Website	www.cagnes-sur-mer.fr
	; Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville )

Cagnes-sur-Mer [ kaɲ syʁ mɛːʁ ] is a municipality in the southeast of France in the Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur with 50,928 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017). Cagnes-sur-Mer is located on the Mediterranean coast ( Côte d'Azur ), east of Cannes and west of Nice (Nice).

geography

Cagnes-sur-Mer consists of the actual city center, the two districts of Le Haut de Cagnes and Le Cros de Cagnes, as well as other suburbs. The districts have now grown together and form a uniform agglomeration .

The old town of Haut-de-Cagnes

Le Haut de Cagnes

Le Haut de Cagnes is located on a hill above the city center. At the top of the hill is Grimaldi Castle and a castle square with a view of the Maritime Alps . The townscape is characterized by narrow, winding streets. There are several restaurants in Le Haut de Cagnes. A free minibus (Navette) shuttles between Le Haut de Cagnes and the bus station in the city center.

Cros-de-Cagnes

Le Cros de Cagnes

Le Cros de Cagnes is the beachfront district of Cagnes. It is shaped by tourism and has a small fishing port. The waterfront has been redesigned in recent years. Le Cros de Cagnes is separated from the inland city center by the Nice-Cannes railway line and the motorway.

In the west, bordering the neighboring municipality of Villeneuve-Loubet , the Loup River flows into the Mediterranean. The river Cagne flows through the middle of the city, which is the name of the city. In the city center, the Cagne is built over in parts, it also flows into the Mediterranean.

traffic

Cagnes-sur-Mer is around six kilometers from Nice International Airport . The A 8 Aix-en-Provence - Menton (La Provençale) motorway leads directly through the city with exit number 48. There is a train station on the Marseille – Nice line . In the medium term, the extension of the Nice tram to Cagnes-sur-Mer is planned. Such a tram connection had existed before, until it was abandoned in 1925 in favor of a bus connection.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2016
Residents	15,392	22,110	29,538	35.214	40.902	43,942	48,313	49.902
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Church in Cagnes (around 1880/90)

The Renoir Museum is located in the house that the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived in from 1907 until his death in 1919.
The old town of Le Haut de Cagnes (Upper Town) is dominated by a castle, the Château Grimaldi .
The Saint-Pierre church is below the castle.
There is a horse racing track in Le Cros de Cagnes .
Baptismal font (Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Personalities

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter , lived from 1903 to 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer and died there. He is buried like his wife and their two sons Pierre Renoir and Jean Renoir in Essoyes .

In addition to Renoir, numerous other artists have lived or temporarily stayed in Cagnes-sur-Mer: Raoul Dufy , Heinrich Maria Davringhausen , Franz Blei , Victor Vasarely , Moïse Kisling , Yves Brayer , Georges Simenon , Marcel Mouloudji , Amedeo Modigliani , Tsuguharu Foujita , Yves Klein and his parents Fred Klein and Marie Raymond , Ingmar Bergman , Brigitte Bardot , Suzy Solidor , Chaim Soutine , Georges Ulmer , Félix Ziem and others. This is why Le Haut de Cagnes was also called the " Montmartre of the Côte d'Azur" until the 1960s .