Musée de la Castre / Festival d’Art Pyrotechnique de Cannes – Spain

Dave and I got to Cannes by train in time to go to the Musée de la Castre, which sits on the very top of Le Suquet (the old town of Cannes).  The museum occupies what remains of a medieval castle overlooking the Croisette, the bay of Cannes, and the Iles de Lérins.  It is a small museum with the majority of the contents of the museum consisting of a collection of ethnological and primitive art, along with some fine arts from the 19^th- & 20^th-centuries by painters from the region of Cannes and the Cote d’Azur.  It also has a collection of about 200 musical instruments from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and Central America called “Musiques du Monde”, which is exhibited in the 12^th-century Saint-Anne Chapel.  I found it very interesting to see some of the paintings by Ernest Buttura such as “Vue d’Antibes” and “La Croisette en 1876”, and to be able to recognize them and see that they were not all that different from what they are today in 2005.  It was also fun to see a painting that I believe was called “Rue de la Boucherie”,  depicting the windy street in Le Suquet that we had just climbed to get to the museum – and, except for the clothes of the people and the dead chickens on the steps, it didn’t look any different back in the 1800’s than it did today when we climbed up it.

After our museum visit, we met our friends, Monique sans François (he returns later this week), her sister & brother-in-law (Christine & Jean), Myriam & Bernard with their niece & a friend (Elizabeth and Olivia), for pizza at La Pizza between the old port and Le Suquet.  Then the nine of us headed to Plage Goëland to get comfortable in our beach chairs for the next installment of the Cannes Fireworks Competition.  This time it was Spain who hosted the fireworks with a theme of “Pirotecnia Igual”.  The show was magnificent and very artful & stylish with beautiful music.  Monique and I both think that Spain is the winner so far, while Dave still thinks that France is in the lead.  We still have one more country left in the competition, and that is Canada on August 15^th.  Then the final fireworks performance will be hosted by France on August 24^th, but that will be “hors competition” (not in competition).  Maybe that’s where they will announce the winner.  We’ll see…

Comments

[David]

Charlotte, J'aime beaucoup ton blog. David et toi a une vie extraordinaire. Nous attendons avec impatience tes avventures nouveaux.

David in boring old Palo Alto.