Palais des festivals ...
Sightseeing in The Riviera picture - ... et des congres (known to most of us as the Film Festival Theatre). It is the site of the world's second oldest, and today arguably the most important, film festival (Venice held the first one). The building also houses the main tourist information office for the city, and a very fine casino, where "informal dress" is allowed only in the slot machine area. For a very readable background on the Festival, go to http;//en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Canns_film_festival.html .