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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.
La Baigneuse by Alfonse Grebel on Avenue Guy de Maupassant. Situated west of the town of Antibes on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan (where Napoleon landed in 1815), it had been an area with many stone pine trees (pins in French), where the inhabitants of Antibes used to go for a promenade, for a picnic in the shadow of the stone pine trees or to ...
Civic leaders therefore decided to commission a purpose-built town hall. The area they selected, in the old town, was occupied by one of the medieval gates of the city, the Tour de l'Horloge, which dated from 1516. [5] Initially, an architect from Var was asked to draw up plans, but these were rejected.
Biot (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Biòt) is a small fortified medieval hilltop village in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur near Antibes, between Nice and Cannes.Many people come to Biot for its renowned cubist art museum of Fernand Leger as well as the winding cobbled lanes on the elevated fort.
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 .
The old town of Antibes, with its two ‘Saracen towers’. The Grimaldi tower is the one on the right. The seigniory of Antibes was given in 1275 to the bishop of Grasse. The Bishop of Grasse retained temporal jurisdiction until the time of Clement VII who, in 1383, transferred it, to the Grimaldi family for 9,000 florins.
Municipal records confirmed that Féret conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago. The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness ...
Antibes Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception d'Antibes or Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea d'Antibes) is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Antibes on the French Riviera, France. It is a listed and protected historic monument.
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