travel42 Port Guide: Antibes

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About 13 mi/21 km southwest of Nice, France, you'll find Antibes, a pretty beach town with the largest pleasure port in France.

Antibes' Old Town offers a wide range of activities and many nice restaurants, galleries and clothing shops. Tuesday-Sunday vendors sell local produce and other goods at a wonderful open-air market in the Old Town.

In 1946, Pablo Picasso was invited to set up his studio in the 12th-century Chateau Grimaldi, and the core collection of the museum is the work he prod...