The Antiques Show will open on 3 April and close on 19 April 2010. Pré-aux-Pêcheurs, across from Port Vauban.
Information Is available at the Old Antibes Tourist Centre, located on boulevard d'Aguillon.
Tél. : 04 93 34 65 65. Fax. 04 93 34 04 90. E mail : barale.sandrine@wanadoo.fr
Open year-round from Monday through Friday: from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. between September and April and from Monday through Saturday until 6. p.m. in May and June. Open until 9 p.m. daily in July and August.
Parking areas are available nearby with regular service by free shuttle buses (except for Sundays and on bank holidays).
New services :
- A car service has been set up in order to facilitate parking for drivers who wish to have this service.
- A new parking area is located across from Port Vauban.
Main entry to the Exhibition on the port
And the Antiques Show is set up each year in the court of Old Antibes, across from the largest yachting harbour in Europe, in the shadow of the ramparts with its stones steeped in history by an old Provençal city whose charm and authenticity seduced Prévert and Picasso, Graham Greene and Hans Hartung. Temptation is sweet in Antibes, and pleasures are innumerable. It is enough to go for a stroll to be convinced of the charm of a city that has lost nothing of its soul. At Port Vauban, the most luxurious vessels in the world gaze at the "bevelled austerity" of Fort-Carré. After leaving the marina, the promenade Amiral-de-Grasse, where Nicolas de Staël lived, unfolds the splendour of its panorama. This is the oldest part of Antibes, rich with 3,000 years of history - its cathedral, its "Saracen" towers and the ancient Grimaldi castle, now the Picasso Museum. Eternal Antibes, finally, with the Porte de l'Orme, all in a maze of tiny streets with evocative names: rue du Saint-Esprit, rue des Arceaux, rue du Révély, rue Barque-en-Cannes or rue de l'Esperon...
Below the Bastion Saint-André, guardian of terrestrial and underwater traces of ancient Antipolis, the free commune of Safranier, its square and its tavern and town hall overlooking the small house of Nikos Kazantzaki, the immortal author of Alexis Zorba. Further on, the Provençal market offers the infinite diversity of its products amidst the spicy odours of garlic and thyme… Going down the rue Sade, the Peynet and Cartoon Museum at the place Nationale is an invitation to dream and fantasy that cannot be refused, before sauntering once again in the shady streets of the old town, or sitting down at a table on the terrace of a café or a restaurant to watch as life goes by.


