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Antibes (äNtēb`), resort town (1990 pop. 70,688), in Alpes-Maritimes dept., SE France, on the Riviera Riviera (rĭvēâr`ə) ..... Click the link for more information. . It is a seaport and the center of a great flower-growing region; a school of horticulture is there. Nearby is the fashionable resort Cap d'Antibes. The town was founded as a Greek colony in the 4th cent. B.C. A fortified port, it still has the 16th-century Fort Carré. Also of interest is a Grimaldi château (14th and 16th cent.) housing a museum that includes numerous works of Picasso. Roman ruins are to the south. Antibesancient AntipolisSeaport (pop., 1999: 72,412), southeastern France. Located on the Mediterranean coast southwest of Nice, it was a Greek trading post established by Phocaeans c. 340 BC. It became a Roman town and eventually a fief of the Grimaldi family (see Monaco) from 1384 to 1608. It is noted as a winter resort and for its Roman ruins. |
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It took them a fortnight to reach Toulon, and they lost all traces of D'Artagnan at Antibes. In France, sire, -- at a small port, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan. |
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