Juan-les-Pins

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History

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La Baigneuse by Alfonse Grebel on Avenue Guy de Maupassant

Situated west of the town of Antibes on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan (where Napoleon landed in 1815), it had been an area with many stone pine trees (Script error: No such module "Lang". in French), where the inhabitants of Antibes used to go for a promenade, for a picnic in the shadow of the stone pine trees or to collect tree branches and cones for their stoves.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The village was given the name Juan-les-Pins on 12 March 1882. The spelling Juan, used instead of the customary French spelling, Jean, derives from the local Occitan dialect. Other names discussed for the town include Héliopolis, Antibes-les-Pins and Albany-les-Pins (after the Duke of Albany, the fourth son of Queen Victoria).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The following year, 1883, it was decided to build a railway station in Juan-les-Pins on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) line that had been there since 1863.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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Exterior of Juan-les-Pins train station.
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Railway bridge on Ave. Amiral Courbet, Juan les Pins

In 1926, the hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Lilian Harvey, Jack L. Warner and Man Ray.[2]

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Le Provençal during renovations in 2013

Jazz à Juan

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Points of interest

Personalities

Twin towns

References

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  1. Archived at GhostarchiveTemplate:Cbignore and the Wayback MachineTemplate:Cbignore: Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Template:Cbignore
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