Juan-les-Pins

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.^[1] It is served by Juan-les-Pins station on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

Juan-les-Pins Joan dei Pins (Occitan)
Town
Juan-les-Pins seen from the Cap d'Antibes
Juan-les-Pins Location within Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°34′16″N 7°06′34″E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Grasse
Canton	Antibes-1
Municipality	Antibes
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population
• Total	60,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
Postal code	06600

History

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.^{[citation needed]}

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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Exterior of Juan-les-Pins train station.

Railway bridge on Ave. Amiral Courbet, Juan les Pins

In 1926, the hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Lilian Harvey, Jack L. Warner and Man Ray.^[2]

Le Provençal during renovations in 2013

Jazz à Juan

Main article: Jazz à Juan

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  Hand impressions of performers at Jazz à Juan festival on Boulevard Edouard Baudoin, Juan les Pins
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  Ray Charles' hand impression on Boulevard Edouard Baudoin, Juan les Pins

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

• Frank Jay Gould
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Avery Hopwood
• Gerald Murphy
• Georges Milton

Twin towns

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