The Riviera Guide

Museum · Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild's palace and gardens, 1905–1912

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
Photo: Berthold Werner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild built the Villa Île-de-France on a crest of the Cap Ferrat isthmus between 1905 and 1912, a Riviera palace in the manner of the Renaissance, to house a collector's life with a particular love of the eighteenth century.

At her death in 1934 she left the villa to a foundation in her name, so that it would become a museum; it opened on 2 April 1938. The Académie des beaux-arts has run it since 2023.

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a museum on Avenue Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The station Beaulieu Sur Mer is 1150 m away (about 18 min on foot).

The tea roomThe cultural gift shopJardins Ephrussi de RothschildTemple of LovePointe Passable100 m
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Nearby

Avenue Ephrussi de Rothschild: the streetThe plot, on VERA PIAll of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

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