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Port Vauban

The harbour under the ramparts: the fishermen’s quay of the old port, the marina of 1971 and the long quay where the largest yachts on the Riviera tie up.

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About Port Vauban

The harbour grew in the Anse Saint-Roch from the sixteenth century; the jetty and channel of the old port were begun in 1648, and the fishermen still land their catch at the old quay below the walls. The marina opened in 1971 and has more than 1,500 berths; since 1986 its outer quay has taken yachts of 50 to 165 metres – the «Quai des Milliardaires».

From the Bastion Saint-Jaume, at the end of the quay, Jaume Plensa’s Nomade – an eight-metre figure made of letters – has looked out to sea since 2010. Across the water stands the Fort Carré; behind you, the Porte Marine leads into the old town.

Text: Metro Mode. Sources: Office de Tourisme – Antibes step by step; Wikipédia – Antibes (Époque moderne); Wikipédia – Port Vauban.

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What to see in Port Vauban

Nomade, by Jaume PlensaAn eight-metre figure made of steel letters, open to the sky, on the point of the Bastion Saint-Jaume at the end of the port.Port VaubanA natural harbour since antiquity in the Anse Saint-Roch, it was given a first dyke in the sixteenth century, a jetty in 1648 and Vauban’s works from the 1680s.Bastion Saint-JaumeBastion Saint-JaumeThe bastion that closes the port on its eastern side was built at the end of the seventeenth century, between the harbour and the walled town.Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsPlage du portOther · Port VaubanAvenue de VerdunBuilding · Port Vauban

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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.