Musée PicassoThe Château Grimaldi stands where the acropolis of Greek Antipolis stood, above the sea wall.
Antibes Cathedral (Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception)Antibes was a bishopric from the fifth century until 1244, and its former cathedral – also called Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea – is still the largest church in town.Olivier2000 · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMusée d’ArchéologieAntibes’s archaeology museum sits in the Bastion Saint-André, built in 1698 on Vauban’s plans at the southern tip of the town walls; its two brick-vaulted galleries were the garrison’s refectory.Musée Peynet et du Dessin humoristiqueRaymond Peynet drew his famous «Amoureux» in 1943 and settled in Antibes in 1976; the museum on the Place Nationale opened in 1989 with nearly 300 works he gave the town.Chapelle Saint-BernardinThe chapel of the White Penitents of Saint Bernardine stands on Roman foundations; local historians date it to 1513 or 1581, and its walnut side door carries the date 20 March 1581.Notre-Dame de la GaroupeThe sailors’ chapel on the top of the Cap is a fourteenth-century church in the Provençal Romanesque style, listed since 1926.Jardin botanique de la Villa ThuretThe botanist Gustave Thuret, famous for his work on seaweed, came south for his health and created this garden on the Cap in 1858 to see which exotic plants could live on the Riviera.
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 CommonsAnthéa – Antipolis Théâtre d’Antibesanthéa – Antipolis Théâtre d’Antibes – is the town’s large modern performance hall, on the Avenue Jules-Grec, with its programme published season by season.Posidonia – Espace Mer & LittoralAt the southern tip of the Cap, the Batterie du Graillon – a former military site owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral and run by the town – holds 2.2 hectares of pine wood ending in rocky cliffs over clear water.
Antibes Cathedral (Notre-Dame-de-l’Immaculée-Conception)Antibes was a bishopric from the fifth century until 1244, and its former cathedral – also called Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea – is still the largest church in town.Olivier2000 · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMusée d’ArchéologieAntibes’s archaeology museum sits in the Bastion Saint-André, built in 1698 on Vauban’s plans at the southern tip of the town walls; its two brick-vaulted galleries were the garrison’s refectory.Musée Peynet et du Dessin humoristiqueRaymond Peynet drew his famous «Amoureux» in 1943 and settled in Antibes in 1976; the museum on the Place Nationale opened in 1989 with nearly 300 works he gave the town.Chapelle Saint-BernardinThe chapel of the White Penitents of Saint Bernardine stands on Roman foundations; local historians date it to 1513 or 1581, and its walnut side door carries the date 20 March 1581.Notre-Dame de la GaroupeThe sailors’ chapel on the top of the Cap is a fourteenth-century church in the Provençal Romanesque style, listed since 1926.Jardin botanique de la Villa ThuretThe botanist Gustave Thuret, famous for his work on seaweed, came south for his health and created this garden on the Cap in 1858 to see which exotic plants could live on the Riviera.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 CommonsAnthéa – Antipolis Théâtre d’Antibesanthéa – Antipolis Théâtre d’Antibes – is the town’s large modern performance hall, on the Avenue Jules-Grec, with its programme published season by season.Posidonia – Espace Mer & LittoralAt the southern tip of the Cap, the Batterie du Graillon – a former military site owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral and run by the town – holds 2.2 hectares of pine wood ending in rocky cliffs over clear water.A selection by the Metro Mode editors, by place – never by rating. Each place has its own page with its sources.
Sources
The places’ own pages (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the Office de Tourisme, the Ville d’Antibes, the Guide MICHELIN for distinctions). Text: Metro Mode.