Juan-les-Pins (; ) is a town in the commune of

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in the

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department in Southeastern

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. Located on the

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, it is situated between

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, to the southwest of

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, with a casino, nightclubs and beaches. It is served by Juan-les-Pins station on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

History

Situated west of the town of

on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan (where

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landed in 1815), it had been an area with many

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trees ( in French), where the inhabitants of Antibes used to go for a promenade, for a picnic in the shadow of the

trees or to collect tree branches and cones for their stoves. 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

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dialect. Other names discussed for the town include ''Héliopolis'', ''Antibes-les-Pins'' and ''Albany-les-Pins'' (after the

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, the fourth son of

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). 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. Gare de Juan les Pins

In 1926, the hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests such as

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, Lilian Harvey,

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and

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Jazz à Juan

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' hand impression on Boulevard Edouard Baudoin, Juan les Pins

Points of interest

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* Aujourd'hui, curvy modernistic seaside former beach house of movie mogul

* Home of the 6 Jours d'Antibes, the Antibes 6 Day Race. * 5, Rue Jacques Leonetti, 06160, Antibes, the address of the world's first Discothèque, in 1947, (now demolished), opened by Paul Pacini, (died 12/12/'17), ((later of Cannes Radio)), the 'Whisky à GoGo'; (the name taken from the 'Galore', in Whisky Galore (novel), published the same year, by

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Personalities

* Frank Jay Gould * F. Scott Fitzgerald *

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* Gerald Murphy * Georges Milton

Twin towns

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References

External links

Festivals Internationaux de Bridge d'Antibes en Juan-les-Pins
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