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Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (Municipality, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

by Olivier Touzeau

Presentation of the city
Description of the flag

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Presentation of the city

Antibes-Juan-les-Pins is a municipality of more than 60,000 inhabitants located on the Mediterranean sea.

Antibes was founded as Antipolis by the Greeks colons from Massalia (now Marseilles) and became later a fortified border city. It was bought for France to the Grimaldi family (still reigning over Monaco) by Henri IV.

Antibes has attracted several artists such as the painters Pablo Picasso, who stayed in the Grimaldi fortress (now Picasso Museum) in 1946-1949, and Nicolas de Staël, who committed suicide from the fortifications in 1955, the poet and novelist Jacques Audiberti, the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzaki...
Juan-les-Pins was created as a sea resort by the American billionaire Florence Jay Gould, who also founded there the oldest jazz festival in Europe (still active every year in July ).

Ivan Sache, 10 June 2000

Description of the flag

In Seborga, I saw in Palazzo del Govierno a Breton Gwenn-Ha-Du and a flag they told me to be the flag of Antibes, given to Seborga by the mayor of Antibes. I suppose there must be some other flags of Antibes in Antibes, but only hidden inside the city hall.
It is a blue and white flag with the arms of the city of Antibes-Juan les-Pins (which can be seen on the municipal vehicles).

Olivier Touzeau, 26 August 2000