Discover Villa Eilenroc at Cap d'Antibes

Cap Martin, Cap Ferrat, Cap d’Antibes: this trio is home to some of the finest properties on the Côte d’Azur. Very few of them are open to the public. Villa Eilenroc is one of them… During your stay on the Côte d’Azur, discover this exceptional villa located at the tip of Cap d’Antibes.

VILLA EILENROC, AN EXCEPTIONAL RESIDENCE ON CAP D’ANTIBES

Discover this villa that symbolises the luxury and voluptuousness of the Côte d’Azur!

The Côte d’Azur was born of the Belle Epoque, a period of peace and prosperity that saw Europe’s Gotha fall in love with this region blessed by the gods. Among these great fortunes was Hugh-Hope Loudon. In 1860, rather than face the harsh Dutch climate, this former governor of the Dutch East Indies had the good idea of taking up winter residence on the sunny Côte d’Azur. He bought an eleven-hectare seafront plot on Cap d’Antibes and built a neoclassical château at its heart, which he named after Cornélie, his wife’s first name: Eilenroc.

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A VILLA OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Overlooking the prestigious Baie des Milliardaires at Cap d’Antibes!

120 years later, after many owners and such prestigious guests as Leopold II of Belgium and King Farouk of Egypt, this splendid residence, designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of the Paris Opera, was bequeathed to the town of Antibes. Since then, like the Villas Kerylos and Ephrussi de Rothschild, other exceptional Côte d’Azur properties, the Villa Eilenroc has been open to the public, who come to visit some of its flats and, even more, to stroll through its luxuriant setting.

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A VERITABLE PLANT CONSERVATORY

Discover the eleven-hectare grounds of Villa Eilenroc…

Bordered by the customs path that follows the contours of Cap d’Antibes and overlooks the Mediterranean, the grounds of Villa Eilenroc are a pure delight: “A prodigious garden, thrown between two seas, where the most beautiful flowers in Europe grow”, wrote Maupassant one day. It boasts 2,000 roses and fragrant plants, Aleppo pines and arbutus trees, ficus, holm oaks, olive trees and eucalyptus. It’s an enchantment you’ll want to extend with a visit to the villa, a rare opportunity to share the intimacy of those who, over a century ago, turned a quiet coastline into a land of festivities, a veritable legend.