Le Cannet travel guide
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Visit Le Cannet: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Le Cannet is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 25 km from Nice, the department capital. (General information: Le Cannet is 688 km from Paris and 907 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Mougins at 3 km from Le Cannet
Popular places to visit near Le Cannet: these include Mougins at 3 km and Cannes at 3 km.
Abbaye de Lerins (Cannes) is a listed 'religious monument' at 3km and Cannes is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 3km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Le Cannet, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Le Cannet
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-Maritimes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Le Cannet.
Note that all distances from Le Cannet shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Le Cannet holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Le Cannet (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Provence and Alpes-Maritimes gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Le Cannet and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de la Napoule (8km) : Jardin botanique de la villa Thuret (9km) : Jardin de la Villa Fort de France (13km) : Le Vallon du Brec (24km) : Jardin botanique (24km) : Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild (28km) : Serre de la Madone (45km) : Palais Carnolès (45km) : La citronneraie (45km) :
- National Monuments: Frejus Cathedral cloisters (28km) : Trophy of Augustus (36km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Gourdon (16km) : Seillans (31km) : Coaraze (39km) : Sainte-Agnes (43km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Lerins (Cannes) (3km) : Eglise de St Raphaël (Saint-Raphael) (26km) : Cathédrale Saint Léonce (Frejus) (28km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cannes (3km) : Nice (25km) : Menton (45km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Grasse (12km) : Frejus (28km) :
Map of places to visit near Le Cannet & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cannet
Canton: Cannet
Arrondissement: Grasse
Department: Alpes-Maritimes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 06110
Distance to Le Cannet
from Nice: 25 km
from Paris: 688 km
from Calais: 907 km
from Nice: 25 km
from Bordeaux: 621 km
from Strasbourg: 560 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Le Cannet): Cannes, La Roquette-sur-Siagne, Mouans-Sartoux, Mougins and Vallauris.
Getting here
Alpes-Maritimes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice airport. Coming from the UK by car the route takes about 12 hours (can be busy in summer). For driving distances to Le Cannet from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Le Cannet