Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (Municipality, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

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by Olivier Touzeau

• Presentation of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
• Municipal flag of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
• Yacht clubs
  • Club Nautique d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins
  • Yacht Club d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

See also:

• France
• Alpes-Maritimes (Department, France)

Presentation of Antibes-Juan-les-Pins

Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (60,000 inhabitants) is a municipality located on the Mediterranean sea.

Antibes was founded as Antipolis by the Greeks colons from Massalia (now Marseilles) and became later a fortified border city. It was bought for France to the Grimaldi family (still reigning over Monaco) by Henri IV.

Antibes has attracted several artists such as the painters Pablo Picasso, who stayed in the Grimaldi fortress (now Picasso Museum) in 1946-1949, and Nicolas de Staël, who committed suicide from the fortifications in 1955, the poet and novelist Jacques Audiberti, the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzaki...

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