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Juan-les-Pins

Joan dei Pins  (Occitan)
Juan-les-Pins seen from the Cap d'Antibes
Juan-les-Pins seen from the Cap d'Antibes
Juan-les-Pins is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Juan-les-Pins
Juan-les-Pins
Location in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Country  France
Region  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Arms of Nice.svg Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement Grasse
Canton Antibes-1
Municipality Armoirie ville fr Antibes.svg Antibes
Elevation
10 m (30 ft)
Population
 • Total 60,000
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
Postal code
06600

Juan-les-Pins (French pronunciation: [ʒɥɑ̃ le pɛ̃]; Occitan: Joan dei Pins) is a town in the commune of Antibes in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera, it is situated between Nice and Cannes, 13 kilometres (8 mi) to the southwest of Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. Juan-les-Pins is a major holiday destination popular with the international jet set, with a casino, nightclubs and beaches. It is served by Juan-les-Pins station on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

History

Fountain juan les pins
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 collect tree branches and cones for their stoves.

The village was given the name Juan-les-Pins on 12 March 1882. The spelling Juan, used instead of the customary French spelling, Jean, derives from the local Occitan dialect. Other names discussed for the town include Héliopolis, Antibes-les-Pins and Albany-les-Pins (after the Duke of Albany, the fourth son of Queen Victoria).

The following year, 1883, it was decided to build a railway station in Juan-les-Pins on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) line that had been there since 1863.

Gare de Juan les Pins
Exterior of Juan-les-Pins train station.
Railway bridge juan les pins
Railway bridge on Ave. Amiral Courbet, Juan les Pins

In 1926, the famous hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests like Charlie Chaplin, Lilian Harvey, Jack L. Warner and Man Ray.

Le Provencal
Le Provençal during renovations in 2013

Jazz à Juan

Points of interest

  • Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret
  • Aujourd'hui, curvy modernistic seaside former beach house of movie mogul Jack L. Warner
  • Home of the 6 Jours d'Antibes, the Antibes 6 Day Race.
  • 5, Rue Jacques Leonetti, 06160, Antibes, the address of the world's first Discothèque, in 1947, (now demolished), opened by Paul Pacini, (died 12/12/'17), ((later of Cannes Radio)), the 'Whisky à GoGo'; (the name taken from the 'Galore', in Whisky Galore (novel), published the same year, by Compton Mackenzie.

Personalities

Twin towns

See also

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