The Magnificent French seaside villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, located on the narrowest part of the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat promontory, is French Riviera’s one of the most beautiful architectures featured by nine marvelous gardens ranging from Japanese, Spanish, French to Florentine offering dancing waterfalls, lily ponds, herbaceous borders, refection pools, sheltered paths, rare trees and variety of flowers. Nine different gardens the Garden à la française, Florentine, Spanish French, garden de Sèvres, Exotic, Japanese, Stone and Provencal gardens were created between 1905 and 1912 by landscape architect Achille Duchêne and each features different themes.
History
The villa was designed between 1905 and 1912 under the direction of the French architect Aaron Messiah, and constructed by a French art collector, and an important member of the Rothschild banking family of France Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild. She was a widow without having any children so she decided to bequeath her remarkable villa and its content to the to the Académie des Beaux Arts division of the Institut de France who opened it up to the public. Her various collections include medieval and renaissance works of art and elements from the Far East and furnitures and equipments from across the world. She left over than 5,000 works of art to the Académie.
Gardens
The Garden à la française is the biggest garden which occupies larger area behind the villa. The formal French garden is created around a large decorative pond, the rose garden is a highlight and a must-view-sight for near 100 different rose varieties, surrounds an exquisite hexagonal temple. The Spanish garden, with its cavern supported by pink marble columns, features a dolphin fountain and pergola and shaded courtyard, with Catalan amphorae, aromatic plants and a gallo-roman bench. The stone garden features architectural ingredient including fountains, sculpted capitals, gargoyles and grotesque figures from ancient, medieval and Renaissance periods. The Florentine garden has a wide horseshoe stairway, an ephebe of marble and an enchanting artificial grotto with water hyacinth, philodendron and giant papyrus. The Japanese garden has a wooden pavilion, a bridge, and lanterns, exquisite ceramic temples and pagodas, bamboo thickets and lily ponds bounded by massive acanthus plants. The exotic garden is full of extraordinary range of agaves and giant cacti.
Events
Every year the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild organizes different festivals including The Musical Fountains, The Rose Festival, A day’s painting, Heritage Days, The Cactus Festival where visitors can enjoy.
Visiting The pink and white villa certainly offers an incredible feelings. Visitors around the world arrive to experience white Carrara marble, light grey marble, the red Verona marble, and bass reliefs from Catalan cloisters, arts, architectural beauty and rare objects from across the world and nine different gardens.
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