Hotels antibes
" Nobody was in Antibes that summer ...except me, Zelda, the Valentinos, the Murphys, Mistinguet, Rex Ingram, Dos Passos, Alice Terry, the MacLeishes, Charlie Brackett, Mause Kahn, Lester Murphy, Marguerite Namara, E.Oppenheimer, Mannes the violinist, Floyd Dell, Max and Crystal Eastman ...
Just the right place to rough it, an escape from the world"
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
in a letter in 1926.
Scott Fitzgerald is widely known as the inventor of 'The Jazz Age', the period between 1920 and the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
With a seafaring
history
spanning thousands of years, it is of little surprise to discover that Antibes is the
luxury yacht
capital of the world.
But the beauty of Antibes is much more than the
wealthy
people's
yachts
.
Stroll through the ancient gate from the international, multi-million dollar marina and you are immediately taken back in time.
The Old Town,
le Vieil Antibes
is a truly authentic unspoilt cobblestoned village far removed from the high tech in the port.
Vieil Antibes has survived the modernisation and tourist 'development' of the last 50 years, and maintains the dignity and atmosphere of its past.
A short visit to the
Maison du Tourisme
will arm you with as much information as you like, so as to get the most from a visit to Antibes.
As well as the myriad restaurants, bars and street cafes of Vieil Antibes, there is the Cours Massena which becomes a bustling local marketplace each morning.
Around the marketplace is a network of narrow cobbled streets filled with small shops offering a mix of local meats and cheeses combined with art, antiques and gifts.
The yachting industry and the computer laboratories of nearby Sophia Antipolis give Antibes one of the highest concentrations of English speakers in France.
Antibes Books
is the biggest independent English Bookshop in mainland Europe.
And then there's the Picasso Museum.
Pablo Picasso spent 1946 living and painting in the Grimaldi Castle.
Many of his paintings and pottery from this period are on permanent display in the Chateau Grimaldi.
Outside of the walls of the Old Town is the modern city of Antibes, the second biggest city in the Alpes-Maritimes, after Nice.
The modern city is pleasant with beautiful shady beaches.
Charming, but without the overpowering glamour of Cannes.
Beyond the city centre lies the
Cap d'Antibes
with some of the most expensive real estate in the world.
Antibes also hosts one of the largest antique shows in Europe each spring.
From then on until late September the roads and streets buzz with people from all over the world.
Pull up a chair at a street side cafe, order a pastis or glass of
local vin rosé
and become part of a truly unique part of the world.
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