Île Saint-Honorat is a large island off the coast of Cannes that has been home to a community of Cistercian monks since the 5th century. The second largest of the Lérins Islands, a group of isles that lie off the coast of the French Riviera, Île Saint-Honorat is just a mile long and 1,300 feet wide. The island is home to the Abbey of Lérins and a 15th-century fortified monastery in which the 30 Cistercian monks reside. There are also several disused chapels, a Second World War gun emplacement, and the remains of a cannonball oven built by Napoleon. The monastery is closed to the public, but a small monastery shop sells a variety of monastic items, as well as honey and wine produced on the island by the monks.
Île Saint-Honorat, Cannes, 6400, France