The Riviera.
From Antibes to Menton, the coast that invented the summer. The hotels, the villas and the beach that have not changed their names in a century.
From Antibes to Menton, the coast that invented the summer. The hotels, the villas and the beach that have not changed their names in a century.
1870The Villa Soleil, later the Hôtel du Cap
Hippolyte de Villemessant, the founder of Le Figaro, built the Villa Soleil on the tip of Cap d'Antibes in 1870 as a retreat for writers. It became a hotel in 1889, and in 1914 the Eden-Roc pavilion was built on the rocks above the sea. The Oetker family has owned it since 1969. Cannes and Nice are on either side.
1912The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is finished
Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild built her villa on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat between 1907 and 1912, to plans by Aaron Messiah, and surrounded it with 9 gardens. It looks over the bay of Villefranche on one side and Beaulieu on the other.
1955Club 55 opens on Pampelonne
Club 55 has been on Pampelonne beach since 1955. Lunch there in July is still how a summer in Saint-Tropez is measured, and the yachts anchor off the beach to come ashore by tender.
1946The first Festival de Cannes
The Festival de Cannes was first held in 1946. Every May the Croisette fills, and Cannes becomes the most photographed town in the world for 12 days.
Sources. Oetker Collection, the history of the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc · Wikipedia, Hôtel du Cap · Wikipedia, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild · Festival de Cannes. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
The building went up in 1870 as the Villa Soleil, a retreat for writers built by Hippolyte de Villemessant.
It became a hotel in 1889.
Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, between 1907 and 1912, on Cap Ferrat.
It has 9 gardens.
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