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In 1907, British MP Charles McLaren, Baron Aberconway, bought 4 acres (1.6 ha) at the point of the Cap d’Antibes. He hired English architect Ernest George to build the property. It features a long façade with half moon windows and a long stairway leading to the sea.
Hôtel du Cap; 117-suite hotel, former Villa Soleil. Eden-Roc; pavilion. Les 2 Fontaines (Les Deux Fontaines) a two-storey 32-room residence. Villa Eleana [13] private villa in front of the property [14] Villa Les Cèdres [15] private villa in the middle of the park [16] The main hotel, a Napoleon III château, is located on the southern tip of ...
Antibes (/ ɒ̃ ˈ t iː b /, [3] [4] US also / ɑː n ˈ t iː b z /, [5] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Antíbol) is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat to the northeast, is one of the best known landforms in the area.
Musée Picasso, in Antibes. The Musée Picasso, formerly the Château Grimaldi at Antibes, is built upon the foundations of the ancient Greek town of Antipolis. Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea. The castle has been classified as a historical monument since April 29, 1928 ...
Fort Carré, often called the Fort Carré d'Antibes, is a 16th-century star-shaped fort of four arrow-head shaped bastions that stands on a 26-meter high promontory in Antibes, France. Henry II ordered construction of the fort in the 16th century at a time when Antibes was situated on a tense border with the Duchy of Savoy .
Sophia Antipolis is a 2,400 hectare technology park in southeast France, and as of 2021 home to 2,500 companies, valued today at more than 5.6 billion euros and employing more than 38,000 people counting more than 80 nationalities.
The Marineland of Antibes was a theme park founded in 1970 by Count Roland de La Poype in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), in the French Riviera. It included a marine zoological park with dolphinarium , [ 1 ] a water park ( Aquasplash ), a children's play park ( Kid's Island ), [ 2 ] mini golf ( Adventure Golf ) [ 3 ] and a hotel ( Marineland Resort ...
Pierre Deval (1897–1993), a French modernist and figurative painter, lived and worked at the Domaine d'Orvès in La Valette-du-Var from 1925 until his death in 1993. Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) lived in Nice and Antibes. Yves Klein (1928–1962), a native of Nice, is considered an important figure in post-war European art.