The site hosts the Bastion des Constructions Navales, where Commander Cousteau's famous Calypso is fitted out.
The building gives way to a vast space highlighting the prestigious fortified remains and the beautifully renovated curtain wall and hosts the monumental sculpture of the "Nomade" by the artist Jaume Plensa, exhibited in 2007.
This ten-meter-tall giant raises its aerial frame on the Saint-Jaume bastion, a former Vauban fortification that protected the entrance to the port of Antibes.
It is made up of a lace of capital letters in white steel, evoking a human silhouette, seated in front of the sea, its face is open, the letters suddenly stop there, as if erased by the beauty of the landscape it contemplates.
Jaume Plensa is an internationally renowned contemporary artist.
Of Catalan origin, he was born in Barcelona in 1955.
He is interested in figurative sculpture and creates seductive works that the public easily appropriates.
