Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Grimaldi, actuellement musée Picasso
Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château : classement par décret du 29 avril 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/04/29 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Antibes
- Département
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.58071, 7.12826
- Mérimée reference
- PA00080651
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Gouvernement General de Provence." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Picasso a séjourné à Antibes et installé son atelier dans le château - de septembre à novembre 1946, Il y a laissé de nombreux peintures et dessins. En décembre 1966, le château Grimaldi est devenu le musée Picasso.
English translation
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History
Picasso stayed in Antibes and set up his studio in the castle - from September to November 1946. He left there many paintings and drawings. In December 1966, the Grimaldi castle became the Picasso museum.
Nearby in the register
- Église paroissiale, chapelle Saint-Esprit et tour Grimaldiégliseunder 1 mi
- Remparts et demi-bastion 17 dit Fort Saint-Andréfortunder 1 mi
- Enceinte gréco-romaine (restes)enceinteunder 1 mi
- Fontainefontaineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.