Juan-les-Pins Juan-les-Pins is a town and a health resort and spa in the commune of Antibes , in the Alpes-Maritimes , in southeastern France , on the Côte d'Azur . It is situated between Nice and Cannes , from Nice Côte d'Azur Airport . It is a major holiday destination popular with the international jet-set , with casino, nightclubs and beaches, which are made of fine grained sand, and are not straight, but instead are cut with small inlets.History Situated west of the town of Antibes on the western slope of the ridge, halfway to the old fishery village of Golfe-Juan , it had been an area with many stone pine trees , 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.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 . The following year, 1883, it was decided to build a railway station in Juan-les-Pins on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line that had been there since 1863. In 1926, the famous hotel Le Provençal was opened and received guests like Charlie Chaplin , Lilian Harvey , Jack L. Warner and Man Ray .Jazz à Juan Cultural references mentions Juan les Pins in Tender is the Night . Peter Sarstedt famously mentions Juan-les-Pins in his 1969 UK number one hit , "Where Do You Go To "; a portrait of a girl who becomes a member of the Euro jet-set. The song mentions that the girl spends her summer vacations in Juan-les-Pins. "Golfe Juan" is the name of a pointillist painting done by Paul Signac , a French neo-impressionist, in 1896. Juan-les-Pins is prominent in Sartre's The Reprieve , the second volume of his Roads to Freedom trilogy. The area is also the home of Lanny Budd , the protagonist in eleven Upton Sinclair novels. In Charles R. Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend , the main character , Don Birnam , mentions a holiday in Juan-les-Pins. In Alan Furst's novel "Kingdom of Shadows", protagonist Nicholas Morath, his Argentine girlfriend Cara, and assorted friends spend early June 1938 in Juan-les-Pins. Near the end of Donna Tartt's ' 'The Goldfinch' ', the protagonist travels to many 'exotic places,' such as Juan-Les-Pins, to rectify his wrongdoings. Camille Aubray's fictional novel Cooking for Picasso takes place in Juan-les-Pins.Points of interest
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