Le Cannet

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Le Cannet
Le Cannet coat of arms
Le Cannet (France)
Le Cannet
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement Grasse
Canton Cannes-1
Le Cannet
Community association Cannes Pays de Lérins
Coordinates 43 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 1'  E
height 12-285 m
surface 7.71 km 2
Residents 41,471 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 5,379 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 06110
INSEE code 06030
Website www.lecannet.fr

Place Bellevue

Le Cannet ( Provence : Lo Canet or Lou Canet ) is a French municipality with 41,471 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . The municipality is located in the Arrondissement of Grasse and is assigned to the two cantons of Cannes-1 and Le Cannet .

geography

The municipality of Le Cannet is located north of the beaches and the port of Cannes about two kilometers from the Mediterranean coast. It is also called Madeira of France. Pine , mimosa , eucalyptus and orange and olive groves grow on the slopes of rolling hills. From here one overlooks the bay of Cannes, the Îles de Lérins and the Horn des Esterel .

The climate in Le Cannet is Mediterranean . Its location, which is well protected by a semicircle of hills, pampers you with a low-precipitation microclimate that hardly knows any frost. Since the end of the 19th century in particular, this has attracted numerous people to spend their summer vacation in the region.

Following the example of ancient Rome with its seven hills, the area of ​​Le Cannet also includes seven hills: Le Pézou, La Colle, Le Bosquet, Serra Capeou, Les Clauvins, Font-Marie and Les Bréguières. An important Roman road, the Via Julia , named after the daughter of Emperor Augustus , which connects Arles with Rome, crosses these hills and its course can still be seen today.

The neighboring municipalities are Mougins , Cannes and Vallauris .

The A 8 La Provençale autoroute runs through the northern municipality .

history

Today's Le Cannet was already settled by Romans in ancient times after they drove the Celtic-Ligurian peoples from the area. They settled down, planted olives and named the place Olivetum .

In the 15th century, monks from the Îles de Lérins families from the Oneille Valley in what is now Italy recruited to settle in the area and cultivate land. In 1441 the abbey assigned land to cultivate in Cannet to a Sylvestre Calvy, who is now considered the founder of the place. Between 1441 and 1500, a total of 140 families came to the village in this way. They divided the land into small hamlets that were located around the assigned land. Many of the family names can be found today as names of districts of the city of Le Cannet: Dany , Ardisson , Calvy , Escarasse , Gourrin , Apie .

Until 1778, when Le Cannet became an independent municipality, the place was part of the municipality of Cannes. Today the urban areas of the two places merge and form a metropolitan area with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

population

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 15,499 23,231 33,892 37,411 41,842 42,158 42,538 41,612
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

In terms of population, Le Cannet is the sixth largest municipality in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Measured in terms of population density, it ranks first with almost 5500 inhabitants per km², well ahead of Nice, with almost 4800 inhabitants per km². The city owes this to a very rapid population growth in the 1960s, which continued in a weaker form from the 1970s to the 1990s. Since then, the number of residents has remained largely constant.

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Le Cannet

  • The thoroughly restored Saint-Sauveur chapel has a bell tower that is well worth seeing.
  • The Sainte-Catherine church has been registered as a Monument historique since 1926 . It was built in the 16th century by a decision of the population and is still the most important parish church in the village. Its square tower dominates the cityscape.
  • The Notre-Dame-des-Anges chapel has been registered as a Monument historique since 1941. It was built in 1557 at the will of a member of an ancient Cannetan family. It consists of a rectangular nave and an exterior porch.
  • The Tour des Danys , also known as the Robber's Tower , has also been classified as a Monument historique since 1941. It bears the name of another long-established family in the city and dates from the middle of the 15th century.
  • The Tour des Calvys bears the name of the city's oldest family who began farming in Le Cannet in 1441. When conquerors invaded the region in 1707, the tower saved the residents who were able to retreat into it.
  • The Saint Bernardin chapel , which is attached to the Sainte-Catherine church, stood empty for a long time. It has served as an exhibition space since 1999.
  • Concerts by Eric Clapton , Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan have already been held in the La Palestre concert hall , which has a capacity of 8,000 seats .
  • Museum Bonnard , an art museum

  • Tour des Danys

  • Tour des Calvys and Sainte-Philomène Church

  • Villa Cantegril

  • Villa Le Nid - detail

  • town hall

Town twinning

Le Canet is connected to the following twin cities:

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town
Connected to the city

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Alpes-Maritimes . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-071-X , pp. 255-265.

Web links

Commons : Le Cannet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Site officiel du Musée Bonnard - Le Cannet - Côte d'Azur. Accessed August 2, 2018 (fr-fr).
  2. ↑ Le Canet website , accessed October 29, 2017