The Suburbs of Cannes and its Surroundings – La Californie
Dec - 20 | 
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Les Quartiers de Cannes et ses Environs:
The Suburbs of Cannes and its Surroundings:
La Californie:
The suburb of La Californie in Cannes shares many characteristics with its namesake across the Atlantic: the climate, upscale residential neighbourhoods, luxurious villas and apartments, and residents from all over the world.
Situated just on the eastern edge of Cannes, perched within a screen of greenery and enjoying close proximity to the sea, La Californie is the hide-away of places borrowed from history such as Villa Fiesole, La Résidence du Château de Thorenc, La Villa Fiorentina, Le Château Louis XIII, La Villa Rothschild, and La Villa St Prieste and Le Californie.
La Californie is also known as “la colline des milliardaires” or the “hill of billionaires”, being home to large estates and boasting splendid and panoramic views from the snowy Alps in the east to the red Esterel Mountains in the west, with Nice clearly visible in the distance, and the Cap d’Antibes, Juan les Pins and Cannes just below. The Isles de Lérins lie just off-shore; St Honorat with the oldest working monastery in Europe and St Marguerite home to the fort in which The Man with the Iron Mask was imprisoned for 14 years.
The views are simply breathtaking.
Obviously, prices in La Californie are at prestige levels, similar to those of La Croisette.
(If you know that you want to live in La Californie, you might know you want to live in the Avenue Roi Albert. It is “the” address in La Californie, and some would say in all of Cannes. But there is competition for that spot so I won’t enter into the argument – suffice to say that some of the most historic buildings in Cannes built by the Russians, the Americans and the English and are still there today. Victoria and Albert enjoyed their holidays there, Edward and Wallis Simpson, the Rothschilds, and the Russian aristocracy all lived, holidayed and socialised there, and recent additions to the architecture in the street have respected the tradition and the quality of their forebears’.)