Antibes is located on the Cote d'Azur facing the Mediterranean Sea in southern France, and is an important luxury resort town along with Nice and Cannes, attracting tourists from all over the world in the summer. Luxury yachts are moored in the port of Antibes, and near the port are the Peynet Museum (officially known as the Raymond Peynet and the Humorous Writers Museum) and the Picasso Museum, both of which are run by the city of Antibes.
About a few hundred meters from Antibes train station, the main street of the old town stretches for about one kilometer, descending to the harbor. Stylish shops and restaurants line both sides of the road, and the Peynet Museum is located in the square at the end of the street.
In the square there is a music hall that is a replica of the music hall in the city of Vinence, which inspired Raymond Peynet to paint lovers, and just in front of the museum there is a statue of Raymond Peynet's lovers.
About 50 meters past the square, there is the Picasso Museum, which faces the sea. Turn left at the square where the Peinet Museum is located, and go through the arch under the breakwater to the port where many hotspots are moored.
There are many restaurants around the square in front of the Peynet Museum, making it one of Antibes' main tourist spots. Visitors to Antibes dine at the restaurants in this square, enjoy the painting worlds of Raymond Peynet and Picasso at the Peynet Museum and Picasso Museum, and then relax on the seaside. Until around 2010, the only Asians coming to Antibes were Japanese, but recently the number of Chinese and Korean visitors has increased, and it seems that they now outnumber the Japanese at the Peynet Museum. Raymond Peynet is also becoming increasingly popular in China and Korea, with Chinese-made Raymond Peynet dolls being sold and a large-scale Raymond Peynet exhibition being held in Korea.
In the 1980s, Japan was on the rise of a bubble economy, and French painting prints sold like hotcakes. A part of the reason for this boom was a Parisian printmaking and sales company called Vision Nouvelle, whose founder, Bicard, had a luxurious mansion in Antibes. He served as president of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company, and invested his huge retirement money into producing original prints by French artists, setting up a branch office in Japan, and creating a French print boom in Japan. In other words, Antibes is a tourist destination visited by many foreign tourists, and at the same time, it is also a Mediterranean villa destination for wealthy French people.