Antibes

Antibes, town in Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur administrative region, south-eastern France. Antibes is a port and a popular tourist resort, with sandy Mediterranean beaches, an excellent climate, and luxury hotels. Formerly Antipolis, a trading post founded by Massiliot Greeks in 340 bc, the town and port were Roman settlements before being controlled by the powerful Grimaldi family of Genoa between 1384 and 1608. The 16th-century Grimaldi Château remains, serving as a gallery devoted to the work of Pablo Picasso, who lived and painted here in 1946. Population 72,500 (2005 estimate).