Juan-les-Pins
Juan-les-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, 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
Situated west of the town of Antibes on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan, it had been an area with many stone pine trees, 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.
The following year, 1883, it was decided to build a railway station in Juan-les-Pins on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line that had been there since 1863.
In 1926, the hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Lilian Harvey, Jack L. Warner and Man Ray.
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,, opened by Paul Pacini,, ), the 'Whisky à GoGo'; (the name taken from the 'Galore', in Whisky Galore (novel), published the same year, by Compton Mackenzie.