Antibes & musée Picasso

Antibes & Musée Picasso

€  270 per group

Pax. 1 – 8

• Private Tour with Up To 8 Pax
• Duration : 3 hours
• Meeting Place : According to your accomodation

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THE TOUR AT A GLANCE

Antibes is one of the most beautiful cities of the French Riviera. From its famous Fort Carré (XVII century), the view of the bay and the Alps on the background is simply gorgeous.

Today, the old Antibes has kept intact the charm of a provençal village with narrow paved streets, a castle, the local market and small boutiques. At the same time, this cozy fortified town is one of the favourite places of the international jet set with its port packed with luxury yachts, the fabulous Cap d’Antibes with villas of dreams and the heavenly Eden Roc Palace, an exclusive hotel built in 1870 where the celebrities from the film industry stay during the Cannes film’s festival.

The second half of the tour is the visit of the Grimaldi Castle (442 AD) which became Picasso Museum in 1966. The collection comprises drawings, paintings, ceramics and sculptures that Picasso made in situ during a period expanding merely two months. In fact, when Picasso lived in Juan-le-Pin in the summer of 1946, the then curator Romuald Dor de la Souchère invited the master painter to use a part of the castle as a studio.

This was a very happy period in Picasso’s life, for he was with his new beloved, Françoise Gilot, young, beautiful and a painter herself. Just after the dark period of the Second World War, Picasso fully—and happily—committed to his art. It’s this joie de vivre of the life in the French Riviera that Picasso expressed in his work. Visiting the museum is embracing that same happiness.