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Juan-les-Pins Beaches Pictures
Côte d'Azur, France

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Antibes beaches pictures, France

One of Juan-les-Pins' many beaches, this one in front of the superb Les Pirates restaurant.
Lunch with your feet in the sand!

The Juan-Les-Pins and Antibes area [the former is embedded inside the latter] has been a sun, sand and sea destination since the 1920's, much favoured by the likes of Picasso, F Scott Fitzgerald and Coco Chanel.
These days the beaches are overstuffed with pay-loungers and restaurants expanding seawards but, nevertheless, the sand is still soft and white, the sea is azure in the right season and space can always be found for a warm body. But isolated it is not, nor is it low cost.
This is fundamentally a pricey place to eat, drink and be merry - day and night [more especially at night], not the spot to bring the family for a picnic on the beach, Cannes' sandy west side or Nice's stony beaches are more spacious and child-friendly.

Juan-les-Pins beach, Cote d'Azur, France

Cap d'Antibes, the notoriously exclusive Antibes peninsula. The town and beaches of of Antibes are out of the picture to the right, Juan-les-Pins beaches are visible in the centre and Vallauris marina is on the left.
Cannes is further to the left, out of the photo.

Juan-les-Pins beach, Riviera, France

Typical Juan-Les-Pins habitués in their natural environment

The urban part of Juan-Les-Pins consists mainly of tree-lined, apartment-packed streets that offers the tourist almost nothing to see or do, whereas greater Antibes encompasses both the not-very-interesting walled old town, the famously expensive and lush Cap d'Antibes peninsula [which has a terrific 1/2 hour coastal walk]and quite a few kid-friendly amusements such as Marineland theme park, the most popular kid's attraction on the Côte d'Azur. Museums include a Picasso, a Naval, a Napoleon and best of all an Absinthe Museum.

Juan-les-Pins beaches and apartments, French Riviera

Juan-Les-Pins apartment life will be no more tranquil in the summer season than the beach life, though out of season things go dead pretty quickly.

Antibes beaches pictures, France

A distant view of the joys of Juan-Les-Pins.

 

Getting there:
Rail: Both Antibes and Juan les Pins have train stations on the main Nice-Cannes railway line. Trains from Nice to Juans-les-Pins take less than half an hour and run frequently. ie. two or three per hour.
Road: Take the A8 and exit at the Antibes exit [junction 44] and then taking the winding road down to Antibes. It is possible to approach Antibes along the coastal roads [RN98 and RN7] from Cannes and Nice/Cagnes sur Mer. In the summer all these roads will be a drop-dead crawl as thousands of puzzled tourists and maddened French delivery people try to find parking spaces, so go early or very late.
Bus:
There is a regular Côte d'Azur bus service [# 200] from Cannes to Nice via Antibes' Place Charles de Gaulle. Buses also go to Nice Airport, Cagnes-sur-Mer and to Cap 3000, a large shopping centre between Nice airport and Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Information: France Beaches Guide | France Map | France Pictures

Other Côte d'Azur beaches: St Tropez | Cannes | Menton | Nice

 

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