Jazz:
' Nobody was in Antibes that summer ...except me, Zelda, the Valentinos, the Murphys, Mistinguet, Rex Ingram, Dos Passos, Alice Terry, the MacLeishes, Charlie Brackett, Mause Kahn, Lester Murphy, Marguerite Namara, E.Oppenheimer, Mannes the violinist, Floyd Dell, Max and Crystal Eastman ... Just the right place to rough it, an escape from the world'
F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter in 1926.
Scott Fitzgerald is widely known as the inventor of 'The Jazz Age', the period between 1920 and the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Antibes and Juan les Pins welcome numerous festivals throughout the year. The most famous one is the Jazz Festival of Juan les Pins. It started during the twenties when American visitors brought with them a certain way of life made of fun, enjoying sandy beaches, and... Jazz.