Castle · Menton
Domaine des Colombières
Ferdinand Bac's Mediterranean synthesis of house and gardens above Garavan, from 1920
The estate lies about a hundred metres above the bay of Garavan, on the slope below the motorway. The philosopher Alfred Fouillée built the first house in 1903; from 1920 the artist Ferdinand Bac reshaped house and gardens with a free hand, his most accomplished work – not a period reconstruction, he wrote, but a synthesis of the forms born of the Mediterranean.
The whole estate, buildings, decoration, gardens, follies and statues, has been classé since 3 October 1991.
Domaine des Colombières is a castle on Route de Super Garavan in Menton. The station Menton - Garavan is 250 m away (about 4 min on foot).
Nearby
- GardenLes ColombièresGarden · Menton23 m
- Listed buildingFontana RosaThe Garavan estate of the novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, from 1922242 m
- GardenTerres en PartageGarden · Menton332 m
- RestaurantLa Mia PassioneRestaurant · pizza · Menton372 m
- Place of worshipChapelle Saint-LaurentChurch located in Alpes-Maritimes, in France385 m
- BicyclesR Bike MentonBicycles · Menton403 m
Sources
- Wikipédia (fr) : Villa et jardins des Colombières
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- POP – Mérimée (Ministère de la Culture)