March 21, 2024
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So uh when the French invaded during the 16th century and they Destroyed I From this tree so this is the sh talking to you about the we explain to you Theology of the name of right where is but first called this this city a right so in Greek ATI means facing and pal means to so you’ll see from the port
How a is facing all the other towns around right and the Greeks inspired by that look so they just decided to uh give that name to that City and then when the Romans invaded they called it aul and since the French C they just shorten it from a to a
That’s it and as we always kind of do we add letters that we don’t pronounce at the end it’s the in my honest opinion one one of the most beautiful language in the world so it is what it is we actually kept this gave it to our it
Silicon Valley called sopia so this is just another neighborhood with huge headquarters with a huge research research pools and universities as well so uh we do have like for example tottal it’s the best pizza I’ve ever had 900 yeah obsess really never been because I’m not for chains restaurant
Chain you would never know was a chain it’s so good okay when I’ll go back I will I will make sure to go it’s NE 00 so here it is so what happened is that uh a plague took place in 1580 right and in order uh to help uh the
Sick people some penitents all dressed in white uh you to come inside the Chapel to help those sick people so they were dressed like cuck guys actually they were dressed like that in order to prevent from infection right from the play because you know how it works it’s
On your skin it pops on you and then you’re infected and then you died so in order to help those sick people because they needed help they were dressing completely in a huge and long uh white dress full on right and they’re wealthy family so when you worry high social
Rank family you wanted everyone to pay you respect on the street so in order for the population to know that you’re rich and wealthy they had to show it somehow so they were using knockers on their door to say to all the population hey here lives a wealthy and Rich and
Noble family so you can see on the doors now from time to time some beautiful knockers some less knockers so you now know uh that it means the social rank of the family living and S so nowadays we don’t do that anymore right we’re not
Just like hey come rub us we are rich like we are trying to avoid that but back in the day it was their way to just show and tell everyone about their social language so nowadays it is not taught at school anymore yes it is so it’s not thought at school anymore and
People are not speaking the Nisa uh in the streets anymore so only the really old people have learned actually the Nissan language but they don’t talk and they don’t use it anymore so it is actually a dying language unfortunately which is kind of sad right just letting
It die like that so when you go from uh town to town in the area and that you see for example n then you’ve seen something written on like Nissa that is the Nan language right so they are trying to keep it alive by keeping them all as shade as wish
All right you’re not a fan of SAS why coming on the friendch Riviera so we are on national Square right now so imagine this used to be a part in the how much better this is so when so is trying a lot to get the cars
Out of to so you will see along the way how many places have been transformed into Gardens into uh places like that so actually when a decided to redo that place they actually looked at all photographs of how it was during the 19th century and they actually saw
People talking together face to face without any phones in their hands right they were not like that alone in their Corner they were just Gathering Together family friends neighbors and a wanted to recreate that in order to give a good quality of life to the Ana right the
Population living in here so they decided to destroy all that parking lot so that restaurants could open up their teras in here so we can all enjoy a coffee uh a drink a nice uh lunch great dinner as well uh with families and friends and neighbors and they also put
That b stand over here in order to welcome some theater show uh music show as well I could come and play the viola myself on that place actually and uh well in order again for people to just join and enjoy the weather and nice time all together we also
Have this was the really famous and he did so much for a and all the kids and that the city decided to create that museum okay but as well a love diploma that is given to every couple getting married in Aid so when I said that art is like Aid is all about
Art art is everywhere even in your marriage right you can’t escape the art even when you get married and not also remember when I told you that King Louis the 18th came in not here for his vacation right that’s a sign of his visit actually so when he came he just
Said hm I want a to remember that I picked them for my vacation let’s make sure they remember me for the rest of their lives so I’m just going to put a column here about that right actually what’s written on it it’s just like yes he came for his Vacation one no you did as well how did you try it as a shock not a good idea not a good idea the French Revolution and went to Switzerland right and that’s where we found the absent plant and decided to create this drink so the first purpose
Of this drink was to be medicinal medical right to help with gastric problems and it was as well purifying water right because it is 55 to 76% degre degrees of alcohol 76% it’s quite strong isn’t it that’s why we don’t drink it so much 2 C of absent at the
Bottom of it and you put a hold spoon on top of it with a piece of sugar and then you open the top of water and you let drop by drop the water goes uh well it it’s making melt the sugar and then with the water it goes inside the cup with
Absent already so you have a ratio of like five water for one absent and you have the sugar to counterbalance the bitterness of the absent and then you have a proper and you know nice drin not too strong but the thing is Vang was not drinking it that way obviously he was
Not putting water in the fountain he was putting pnac and he was smoking a bit of opium on the side right so that’s was the thing back back in the day during the 19th century so that’s what happened like all that mix of cocktails of a
Drink and drugs and all made him kind of lose his mind and cut his ear right so actually it happened a little bit of the same thing in the population but less crazy but still they were mixing absent with like many stuff and having some drugs on the side so the population
Kind of went crazy as well and then it scared the government because a lot of alcohol isn’t problem and like uh aggressive behavior now was like in the city so they came and they went to see as well the wine industry because they were seeing so many distilleries popping out
In France that that the wine industry as you may know it takes like 3 to 5 years for a new tree to grow and to create the more grapes and wine and all so they were scared they were just like oh my God the population is loving the absent
They are drinking it so much how are we going to come back on the market after 5 years of not producing wine right so the government and the wine Industries got together and they went to see scientists in order to find warm wood so that’s the substance that is causing
Hallucination but in my honest hello downstairs wow awesome yes oh my God we can sit yes go ahead take oh my God you want to have the first rank of it it’s perfect so that is the French way to drink ABS not in shots right not
Goodness I thought it’s going to be in s like vodka well vodka no no no vodka water water that’s more than enough so in absent we find three main ingredients which are fennel anus I I smell there you go I could smell thats I hate that
Smell you’ll see how good it is honestly like you’ll see the the sugary it kind of like makes it good yeah with water and it has like that licorice taste that’s sounds really familiar all the way on the mid and then every time they were stopping uh in different
Countries they were as well giving absent to those people they were visiting and at some point when French they left the army with napon the third those population was just like okay but this is revolutionary we want to do that with some of our alcohol as well so the
Thing is they didn’t have absent growing on their land right so they needed to change the absent for another plant so that’s how sambuka and utu came to life for example so they have all that licorish kind of taste right and uh well so that’s how ptis was born as well
Because ptis all those products are derived uh from the absent absent is like the father of all those um and then past this actually so with the bad reputation abson got banned in France right in 1950 and then R per was just like oh my God I have so many
Distilleries I did put so much money in it I got a everything is okay yes you’ve got the perfect green fairy today she’s in in red but nor she’s a green fairy of the bar she’s every [Laughter] night yeah she explain you a little about the
ABS it’s an old drink typic in France at the beginning of the last century and all the artists like V and drink ABS but they drink huge quantity of abant and that’s that’s why they’ve got a lot of problem with your let’s see all right so I’m going to take a
Picture of all of us before having that drink because after having accident we don’t know what we’re two SS of absent it tasted like medicine okay good just his name it was a good one family table so they’re really good at what they’re doing especially with the
Pad pad is a local dish it’s like a pizza crust with caramelized onions and show yes really good really really good uh and they make the best so that’s a snack you got to try from like the provin province region and all so we love the Piza as well as the SOA that’s
Another thing you got to try SOA s o CCA it’s like chickp flour water salt and pepper Olive o it’s cooked in a wooden fire just like right and uh again the fishermen used to eat that under a quick lunch break before going back on the seek and they
Needed something really with a lot of protein but first i’m going to turn them out to you and at some point you’ll be able to just see them by yourself and I will tell you all about those uh little pieces of some other women Angels not ah unicorn come
On horsey yeah you see the [Laughter] horse oh it’s gorgeous I feel like this is where Bella lived welcome artists in there for free so if you’re an artist legitimate artist right I gotta say you can just improvise yourself as an artist and be like hey I
Want to spend the whe there for free uh you can actually and from time to time you see some artists on the balcony painting sculpting riding facing the midan sea over there and again aun is all about heart imagine you just give your house in order for this house to
Continue to welcome other artists truly year olds are whatever it’s not just a plate of sauce they’re giving it’s a complete Dish provential Dish right so it’s cfish veggies eggs with the a so after the piz and the for lunch you you can have a aoli Dish as a complete provintial dish day
VOA the ladies of an they used to come here to wash their clothes with black soap and rock but also to gossip so it was like the time of the day when they were all coming together so we about the washing Place otherwise I’m not W there are a few
Things I need you to find for me right yeah yeah a few pieces of art what do you see a hand there’s a face right here one hand here a face there what else is that another face right here also yeah right here as well I feel like this could be
Interpretive here yeah you’re right have some women here yeah have some faces again faces a lot of them actually like Jesus Christ yet right another Angel right here oh yes many things right what us another hand here on are people like feeding radishes to the birds or something uh maybe I don’t know
Why so right in front of us cap right our peninsula where sh the the property so nowadays uh we find the most luxurious and uh actually Villas and mansions of the coast of the French riera they are right there on this piece of land so actually we can find as well the
Eden Rock which is a festar palace right uh you can find a um dog cemetery you can find private tennis court you can even uh duck your boat in their private Pier right so you don’t even have to come inside the poor population right you can jump straight from your private
Yacht directly to your 9,000 for night V wow sop she got married Eden Ro Eden rck yeah that’s because nowadays the clients the customers of that the love women and and love are here at home I am still blinded in my eyes and soul so poetic is it so poetic
He was the master of it right are you making content yeah but I don’t know I just showed it yeah yeah maybe I’ll Stitch a video and I’ll post it on YouTube beautiful welcome artist just like P so Picasso came in here for 6 months in 1946 he created 23 paintings and 44
Drawing right that you can find inside the music as I can better understand the process behind the mind of P because he was the absent Drinker himself too right so it’s a 8 year the entrance they are closing during lunchtime so if you want to go make sure to uh look at Po Right Are the oldest in from the middle age right so this one has a particular dark story because all the way up there there’s the town out right so when people were sentenced to death they were going from the town hall walking on that street right here where we stand under
That Arch to get hanged by the Sea right and as always see let’s stay POS positive right so they has the the best ending view possible for a life right did they get to face it or were they facing away from it they were facing the sea it wasn’t like the backdrop
No terrifying question is really beautiful A like I think it’s the eye the people right oh cool I didn’t know it’s actually a painter’s Workshop he just did the door of himself inside opening the door And now they’re really old the Tree S yeah it would as a military Fortress has been transformed into a training sport campus for the Army as well but no arms no tanks anymore over there before letting you go to your the rest of your day um usually from here when there’s no clouds we see the Alps
Okay and during winter we see the snowy Alps and as you might uh know you can go SK in 2 hours driving from here inside the man whispering to the seat that you throw at the sea as well and voila maybe it will come true but if you have a
Really a wish you care a lot about to do it’s today now or never to make it inside that metal structure so you can go down those stairs here on your right getting under the ramp part on your right again and you can just where people are walking going all the way up
There to The Nomad if you want to go after the tour otherwise uh that’s pretty much it guys congrats to you you made it the end of the tour good thank you it was a pleasure so before letting you go as I always say a is all about art so I got
To put some art in your life I can’t let you go like that without putting some art in your life so I have a small postcard to give you about o and one of the streets we went on today there you go so it has been painted by a uh artist from
Her name is an sopie and she painted actually the founder of what rier in one of the streets we went on today so you can either keep it for yourself as a souvenir or give it to a loved one thank you you’re welcome thank you there you
Go and now I guess you waited for it I’m going to tell you my lie do we have to guess first can I guess what it is go ahead the V oh yeah I think it’s how come I you know about the restaurant in Montreal the restaurant the pizza plate
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Antibes free walking tour provided by What To Do Riviera.
Tour Guide: Isa.
Antibes is a resort town between Cannes and Nice on the French Riviera (Cote d’Azur). It’s known for its old town enclosed by 16th century ramparts with the star-shaped Fort Carre. This overlooks luxury yachts moored at the Port Vauban marina. The forested Cap d’Antibes peninsula, dotted with grand villas, separates Antibes from Juan-les-Pins, a chic resort with buzzing nightlife and the Jazz a Juan music festival.