Vieil Antibes
Walled seaside old town of cobbled lanes, ramparts, a hilltop castle and a daily Provençal market.
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This guide to Vieil Antibes, the old town of Antibes near Cannes, follows Pablo Picasso through the autumn of nineteen forty-six, when a curator offered him rooms in the Château Grimaldi above the sea. It is a story of postwar scarcity, boat paint and long Mediterranean lunches, and of what ended up on the menu of his art. Best heard on the ramparts beside the castle, or among the morning stalls of the covered market.
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