Alpes-Maritimes
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Alpes-Maritimes is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.
Culture
Cultural life is rich and fully described in the daily regional Nice-Matin and announced in the weekly supplement JV Wednesday.
- Cannes Film Festival (theatrical)
- Pantiero Festival, Cannes (electronic and independent music) in August
- International Dance Festival, Cannes, a dance festival held in late November / early December every second year
- International Festival of Games, Cannes, in February
- Festival of Night music at Le Suquet, Cannes, classical music in July
- Fireworks Festival, Cannes, fireworks in July and August
- Festival of Performances of actors, Cannes, June
- Festival of dances "Break the Floor", Cannes, January
- International Dance Festival, Cannes, November
- Festival of Russian Art and Dance, Cannes, August
- International youth ballets, organized by the Senior Dance School of École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, Cannes, March
- Italian market, Mougins, (formerly the Piedmontese market before 2011)
- International Gastronomic festival, Mougins
- Festival of Juan-les-Pins (jazz), Antibes
- Nice Jazz Festival
- Nice Carnival
- Naval Combat with flowers, Villefranche-sur-Mer
- Festival of Lemons, Menton
- Southern Nights in Vence, world music
- Festival Tomawok, Nice (rock, metal music), June
- Book Festival of Mouans-Sartoux, three days in early October (21st Festival in 2008)
- This is not classic, an annual event for classical music, created by the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes in 2005. It takes place at the Acropolis convention centre in Nice and occupies all available rooms beginning with the large auditorium seating 2,400 people.
- Chestnut Festival
Famous museums available include:
- the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence
- the Picasso museum in Antibes
- Concrete art in Mouans-Sartoux
- the Fernand Léger National Museum in Biot
- the Chagall and Matisse museums in Nice
- the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) also in Nice
See also
- Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department
- Cantons of the Alpes-Maritimes department
- Arrondissements of the Alpes-Maritimes department
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