Travel Guide Juan-Les-Pins

Juan-les-Pins is a charming seaside resort. Its beautiful esplanade offers a breathtaking view of the Lerins Islands and extends to the Cap d'Antibes peninsula with its many clear water creeks. Its long sandy beach is home to dozens of good restaurants and cocktail bars. In its small and dynamic center, cafés, ice cream shops and clothing boutiques abound. Visitors like to come to Juan to relax; during the day, to enjoy the pleasures of the sea and play petanque in the shady park of the Pinède, and in the evening to enjoy the night market, concerts and other entertainment, particularly numerous during the summer season. And then the city is one of the only ones on the French Riviera to offer breathtaking sunsets, with a sumptuous view of the Esterel massif Moreover, one cannot dissociate the town of Juan-les-Pins from jazz music, this musical trend that made its great fame by settling here in the 1920s, following the wake of American tourists and the flonflons of the first Charlestons. It became a meeting place for the great names of jazz, such as Sydney Bechet, Claude Luther, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charly Parker, Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Petrucciani and many others. The city organizes every year in July, the event "Jazz in Juan" which attracts fans from around the world around the pine forest Gould where the atmosphere is intense.