アンティーブの洞窟・トップ5

Great walk around Fort Carré

From this point you can enjoy a magnificent view over Cannes

view of Nice

Fort Carré is a 16th century fort built by King Henry II of France to guard the border with the County of Nice and defend the city of Antibes. The fort's ramparts, 43 meters high, offer a panoramic view of the sea and the mountains. The fort also has a protected park of 4 hectares, where you can admire the typically Mediterranean flora and fauna.

Magnificent view of Cannes from this place.

Not too expensive self-guided tour (€6 in 2023), possibility of guided tours at fixed times. We discover the cell of the man in the iron mask but also magnificent recent paintings in the other cells. We also discover that this prison was used in the second part of the 19th century to imprison Algerian "Sheriffs", many of whom died on site.

The ghostly charm of the abandoned castle

It is here, at Fort Royal, that you will find the Cannes Sea Museum. The island has actually been inhabited since the 5th century BC and the Romans constructed buildings there around the 1st century AD. In September 1635, during the Army of Thirty Years with Spain, a Spanish fleet of thirty or more arrived in front of the Lérins Islands and delivered thousands of Spanish soldiers and six guns. A year and a half later, the French recovered the Lérins Islands and began to fortify them. Over the next 100 years, many plans to strengthen and improve the defenses of the islands were drawn up, but it was finally decided that any effective defensive position on the island would actually become a liability if an enemy invaded again. and took control of these improved defenses. In 1685 the fort was converted into a prison and it was here that two years later, in 1687, the "Man in the Iron Mask" was imprisoned for a time.