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Allée des Étoiles du Cinéma
Just near the Palais des Festivals is the Allée des Étoiles du Cinéma where you can browse a path of celebrity hand imprints in the pavement.
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Cruise St-Tropez
You head out to sea and gaze back at the coast, relaxed and content. Floating in to St Tropez, things just get better. Despite an international reputation for glamour and exclusivity, provincial charm still lingers here. The village, port, Citadel, shops, Ponche district, church, Annonciade Museum and the market - you might have to come back again tomorrow.
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Église Notre Dame d'Esperance
Perched at the top of La Croisette is 12th-century Église Notre Dame d'Esperance.
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Île Ste-Marguerite
Just 20 minutes away, the tranquil Île Ste-Marguerite feels far from the madding crowd. Only 3.25km (2mi) wide, the enigmatic Man in the Iron Mask was incarcerated in the fort during the 17th century. Immortalised in Alexandre Dumas' novel Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (The Viscount of Bragelonne), the identity of the masked man (or woman?) remains a mystery.
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John Taylor & Son
Walk west along La Croisette and pick yourself a dream mansion (to buy or rent) in the windows of 140-year-old estate agency John Taylor & Son.
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La Malmaison
Walk a few blocks along La Croisete to La Malmaison, a seaside pavilion in the former games and tea room of Cannes' grandest hotels of the 1860s, the Grand Hôtel (opened in 1864, shut in 1950, demolished and rebuilt in the 1960s). Modern art exhibitions fill part of La Malmaison today.
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Marché du Film
The vast majority of films are 'out of competition'. Behind the scenes the Marché du Film (Film Market; www.marchedufilm.com) sees around €150 million worth of business negotiated in distribution deals. And it's this hard-core commerce combined with all the televised Tinseltown glitz that gives the film festival its special magic. For a concentrated dose, don your glad rags, stand up tall and strut into the bar of one of the posh hotels as if you own the place.
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Musée de la Castre
Near the Église Notre Dame d'Esperance you'll find the Musée de la Castre, home to a diverse collection of art, antiquities and ethnographical oddities.
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Museum of the Sea
As you get off the boat at Île Ste-Marguerite, a map indicates a handful of rustic restaurants, trails and paths through the cool eucalyptus and pine forest. It also directs you to the 17th-century Fort Royal, which now harbours the 'Musée de la Mer'. Make sure you explore the old state prisons, built under Louis XIV, and see exhibits of the fort's history.
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Palais des Festivals
A short stroll down La Croisette is the legendary Palais des Festivals, a ferociously ugly concrete beast where beauties gather and films are screened during the film festival. Pose for a photograph on the 22 steps leading up to the entrance, then wander along allée des Étoiles du Cinéma, a path of celebrity hand imprints in the pavement.
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Palais des Festivals et des Congrès
The first Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built in 1949 to host the Cannes Film Festival. As the festival grew, more space was needed, so the current Palais was constructed on the site of the municipal casino and opened in 1982. Today, the space (25,000 sq km/9650 sq mi) is used for exhibitions, screenings, shows, receptions and conferences.
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Plage du Gray d'Albion
Cannes is blessed with sandy beaches, although much of the stretch along blvd de la Croisette is for guests of top-notch hotels or those prepared to pay for the luxury of having a strip of carpet leading to the water's edge: rates range from around €15 /around €19 per half-/full day for a mattress and yellow-and-white parasol on Plage du Gray d'Albion - it has a water-skiing school - to around €30 /around €38 /around €44 for a back-row/front-row seat/spot on the pier of exclusive Carlton Beach.
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Plages du Midi
The central, sandy beaches along blvd de la Croisette are sectioned off for hotel guests, where sun worshippers pay by the day to stretch out in a lounge chair with a parasol. You'll find one of the best public (aka free) beaches, Plages du Midi, stretching westward from the Vieux Port along blvd Jean Hibert.
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Vieux Port
The Vieux Port (Old Port) is literally in the centre of town. It is bordered by the Gare Maritime (Marine Railway Station), the pretty Allées de la Liberté where the morning Marché aux Fleurs (Flower Market) is held, the Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall) and the main shopping streets. For boating enthusiasts, it has 750 mooring berths and 150 stopover berths.
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Z Plage
For the ultimate beach experience, flop beneath a pearl-white beach umbrella on Z Plage, the beach of Hôtel Martinez. Its Zzzz day package (around €88 ) includes lounger, parasol, a 25-minute massage in a beach cabin and a two-course lunch in its trendy, super-stylish beach bar.
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