About Juan-les-Pins

Juan-les-Pins was born on 12 March 1882 as a new quarter of Antibes, among pines and fine sand facing south to the Lérins islands. It became a summer resort in the 1920s, when Édouard Baudoin reopened the casino and the American Frank Jay Gould built Le Provençal; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spent a summer in the Villa Saint-Louis, today the Hôtel Belles Rives. Sidney Bechet married here in 1951.

Jazz à Juan was founded in July 1960 and plays every summer in the Pinède Gould, where the handprints of its musicians line the path. Along the Promenade du Soleil, the public beaches run west towards Golfe-Juan, with a night market every evening in July and August; the Palais des Congrès by Jean-Jacques Ory was completed in 2013, and the Juana, built in 1931, keeps its Art Deco lines.

Text: Metro Mode. Sources: Office de Tourisme – Juan-les-Pins, lust for life; Wikipédia – Juan-les-Pins; Wikipédia – Juan-les-Pins (Festival de jazz).

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What to see in Juan-les-Pins

Hôtel JuanaBuilt in 1931 in the Art Deco style, the Juana faces the Pinède Gould – the front row for Jazz à Juan.La Pinède GouldThe pine wood in the heart of Juan-les-Pins is in two parts: to the north a playground, a carousel and a sculpture by Sosno under century-old pines; to the south the open-air stage where Jazz à Juan has played since 1960.Port GalliceThe little marina at the start of the road round the Cap takes its name from Georges Gallice, who bought land here in 1893; a small harbour attached to his property became Port Gallice.Port du CroûtonA small harbour on the Cap, on the Juan-les-Pins side.La Passagère – Hôtel Belles RivesThe restaurant of the Hôtel Belles Rives, the villa where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spent the summer of 1925, on the water at Juan-les-Pins.

Hôtel Belles RivesIn 1925 F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald rented the Villa Saint-Louis on the water at Juan-les-Pins, and Fitzgerald worked here on Tender Is the Night.Leaaa9 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Église Notre-Dame-de-la-PinèdeJuan-les-Pins’s church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Pinède, a few streets back from the beach and the Pinède; the resort also has the church of Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc and a synagogue on the Chemin des Sables.Abxbay · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Synagogue d'AntibesBuilding · Juan-les-PinsAimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons Monument aux morts de Juan-les-PinsMonument · Juan-les-Pins

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Through the year in Juan-les-Pins

1960Jazz à JuanEvery year in July, in the Pinède Gould, Juan-les-Pins – since 1960
·The night market of Juan-les-PinsEvery evening in July and August, on the Promenade du Soleil

Recurring events; sources: Office de Tourisme – Juan-les-Pins, lust for life; Wikipédia – Juan-les-Pins / Antibes (Festival Jazz à Juan).

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Quartier: INSEE’s IRIS districts (IGN CONTOURS-IRIS, Licence Ouverte 2.0), grouped by VERA PI. Buildings, streets and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, and VERA PI’s own register. Sights: Wikidata (CC0) and the Mérimée base; photographs from Wikimedia Commons under the licence shown on each. Text: Metro Mode, with its sources above.