Église Notre-Dame-des-Pins

Église Notre-Dame-des-Pins stands in Cannes, near the end of the Croisette, where a pine grove once surrounded a small chapel. Its Latin-cross plan combines Romanesque, English Gothic, and Italian influences, with three naves, a transept, and a west bell tower forming a porch.

Seven men founded the chapel around 1864, and Laurent Vianay designed the first building, completed in 1865. Growing neighbourhoods brought two side aisles in 1914, followed by a major 1932 expansion with a choir, transept, bell tower, sacristy, and presbytery. Light limestone, cut stone, and reinforced concrete shape the exterior, while the interior holds ogive vaults, a false dome, a crypt, and an ambulatory around the choir.

The sculpted portals, capitals, and baptismal fonts date from 1933 and imitate Romanesque art from Saintonge. Stained-glass windows by the Mauméjean brothers and Lemoine carry the date 1932, while the pulpit came from Henri Franzi’s workshop in 1933. The church was consecrated in November 1989 and remains a parish church within Cannes’s Saint Nicolas parish.