Vue sur mer. Or ocean view. This is what you get at Côte d'Azur in more impressive amounts than you can handle. The cobalt blue sky, sun, sand and oceanic silver shimmer. This appears to be what Catalan artist (Barcelona-born) Jaume Plensa tries to capture and grasp in his sculpture Nomad. The nomad is situated on the pier of Antibes, overlooking the port, boats, and the ocean.
The 8 metre tall, 6 tonnes heavy metal sculpture and landmark takes the form of a human (male) sitting, knees folded under him, and is made up of letters from the Human Rights Declaration carved in metal plates, welded together in random alphabetical order. As Jaume Plensa explains, he imagines that the human skin is tatooed with letters as a communication form. One association could be the giant stone heads overlooking the ocean from remote and isolated Easter Island. Communicating to sea farers.
Another Côte d'Azur ocean view landmark are the residential holiday flats of Marina Baie-des-Anges. The complex consists of four seperate buildings with altogether some 1600 flats placed around the port, and is situated in Villeneuve-Loubet between Antibes and Cagnes-sur-Mer. Construced as swinging and swaying buildings, with tier-laid terraces in pyramidical form. They could ressemble the many tiers and levels of a giant cruise ship. So there, don't say that the shoe string traveller can't have great experiences!For further information, please see: