Apart from the abbey, the attraction of Caunes lies in its rich historical and architectural heritage. The façades of the buildings are adorned with numerous architectural features dating from the 15th and 18th centuries.
Certain renaissance houses are worthy of particular attention: the Hôtel Alibert (part of which nowadays houses a hotel and gastronomic restaurant) is built around a courtyard with a beautiful canopied well with three columns, two galleries with decorative busts and small columns, two turrets with a spiral staircase in each and numerous mullioned windows.
The Hôtel Sicard has a wealth of mullioned windows, plain and criss-crossed, with arched openings or windows at right angles. There are two bay windows on the ground floor of this former mansion, the larger of which appears to have been a shop front.
Remains of the fortified walls which surrounded Caunes can be seen on a walk through the village. Other more recent monuments which reveal a way of life and traditions now dying out are also worthy of mention, such as the old wash houses, the irrigation channel and the cobbled lanes.
