Le Suquet is the old quarter of Cannes, climbing the hill above the Vieux Port in a tangle of narrow cobbled lanes, terrace restaurants, and medieval stonework. It was here before the grand hotels, before the film festival, before any of it — a genuinely old Provençal hill village that happens to sit above one of the most famous seaside boulevards in the world.
At the top stands the 14th-century Tour du Suquet and the 12th-century Chapelle Sainte-Anne, with a sweeping panorama of the bay and the Lérins Islands. The Musée de la Castre occupies the old castle and holds a collection of Mediterranean antiquities and ethnographic objects from around the world. The streets below, especially Rue Saint-Antoine, are lined with restaurants that tend to be better value and less touristy than those on the Croisette.